Plastic Bag Dispenser (made of cloth)

My family saves plastic shopping bags for reuse for their original purpose or throwing rubbish away. The latter is especially important as we live in a flat with a rubbish chute under the kitchen sink, so the bags are the perfect size to fit through the hatch. (Although, in previous homes where we lived in a house and had to carry the rubbish to the road for the garbage-men, we always used shopping bags anyway. I was baffled the first time I encountered the American way of buying perfectly clean new plastic bags to put rubbish in.)

The problem is that we usually just hang the plastic bags on the kitchen window which ends up being very untidy. I remembered seeing a sort of sausage for storing plastic bags in someone's house a long time ago, so here's my version of how to make one.

Step 1 Materials and tools

Fabric - any reasonably sturdy kind, I used some cheap cotton left over from making a door curtain.

Basic sewing stuff

• Thread
• Elastic
• Needles
• Pins
• Scissors
• Safety pin - VERY IMPORTANT.

Sewing machine - not required, but it certainly makes life easier.

Iron - not required but also helpful.