Oh boy, I'm so excited! I just stitched up my 1st little shopping bag, made from an old cotton dishtowel with a tomato appliqué, from the Thrift Store.
Here is its trial run, filled with dry pasta:
I'm sewing several bags today as presents for my SIL's 60th birthday. I'm going over to my sister's house (it's her wife) tomorrow--my father is up for the weekend.
I always feel a little nervous before family gatherings.
SIL and I are not close––tangled family allegiances, you know–– but she loves farmers markets so she might find cloth bags useful.
Unfortunately, she also loves to heat and bleach the hell out of laundry. These old materials can't take that. I'll have to use the sturdiest cotton for her.
UPDATE, 3 PM: And now I've finished the 2nd bag--this one with a piece of old but "new" linen that came with a paper tag:
I gave this one a drawstring.
These took me a long while, but now I know how to do them, the next ones will be quicker.
Here is its trial run, filled with dry pasta:
I'm sewing several bags today as presents for my SIL's 60th birthday. I'm going over to my sister's house (it's her wife) tomorrow--my father is up for the weekend.
I always feel a little nervous before family gatherings.
SIL and I are not close––tangled family allegiances, you know–– but she loves farmers markets so she might find cloth bags useful.
Unfortunately, she also loves to heat and bleach the hell out of laundry. These old materials can't take that. I'll have to use the sturdiest cotton for her.
UPDATE, 3 PM: And now I've finished the 2nd bag--this one with a piece of old but "new" linen that came with a paper tag:
100% Pure Linen. Made in Denmark.
Imported by American Handicrafts Co.
I gave this one a drawstring.
These took me a long while, but now I know how to do them, the next ones will be quicker.