I've seen a lot of tutorials for grocery totes and bags and the like but I never found one that I thought was easy enough for someone like me to follow. There is an excellent one on Craftster that makes a t-shirt bag almost exactly like this one but it uses a very different technique for constructing the bag. This one may not end up as refined but I think it might be easier for some sewers to follow.
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Signing UpStep 1: Cut out your fabric
You can use an existing bag for the pattern. Just cut off the seams at the top of the handles and the bottom seam. Then cut up each side so you have a pattern to use that looks not unlike a wife-beater.
You need to cut four pieces of fabric total, two of the lining fabric and two of the outside fabric. I pulled some quilt fabric out of my stash to make this bag and I used two very different fabrics so the inside and outside would be easily distinguished.
The Debbie Mumm chicken fabric is for the outside of the bag. The black chicken wire print is the lining fabric
You need to cut four pieces of fabric total, two of the lining fabric and two of the outside fabric. I pulled some quilt fabric out of my stash to make this bag and I used two very different fabrics so the inside and outside would be easily distinguished.
The Debbie Mumm chicken fabric is for the outside of the bag. The black chicken wire print is the lining fabric
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Those temporary $2 non-woven fabric cheapo POS they sell to Hummer-driving greensters don't even start to compare to the awesome washability of your very own skull-print grocery bags. I use mine, not just feel great about owning it. But then, if you're buying the nonwoven kind, you're probably not the sort who remembers to put them back in the car after unloading them.
I made a little pouch with a ribbon closure from matching fabric (actually, the cut off from between the handles). When in use, I just throw the pouch into the bag. You can also use a hair elastic to keep it folded up between uses.
Very nice instructable. You remind me of my 9th grade home ick teacher with your constant reminders to press, press, press. LOL that's the only time I ever iron anything other than table napkins.