Does anyone have a simple pattern for making your own shopping bags , or know a site? , using calico . Oh I know , stich up a couple tea towels together…but I don’t sew , totally useless at this, I can’t even cut straight, I need a pattern…
pull a green bag apart and use that as a template ??
The Estate said:
pull a green bag apart and use that as a template ??
Hi Thee, yes thats easiest.. as soon as I hit submit on my post I thought of that lol.
We ( bander lady and I ) get so many large clothes for recycling we thought of re using those for a cheap material source too.
:D
great idea HP !!
Happy Potter said:
Does anyone have a simple pattern for making your own shopping bags , or know a site? , using calico . Oh I know , stich up a couple tea towels together…but I don’t sew , totally useless at this, I can’t even cut straight, I need a pattern…
my sister made some nice ones once. She used a plastic shopping bag as a pattern and tie died the calico for colour.
Happy Potter said:
Does anyone have a simple pattern for making your own shopping bags , or know a site? , using calico . Oh I know , stich up a couple tea towels together…but I don’t sew , totally useless at this, I can’t even cut straight, I need a pattern…
If I was closer I’d swap you shopping bags for baked goodies. Alas I’m in Brisvegas, and I don’t know that baked goodies would survive the trip. And after waiting for Crinkles worms to arrive I’m not sure I could stand the stress.
Here’s a pattern online : http://sewing.about.com/od/bagstotespurseproject/ss/grocerybag.htm
Try googling “sew shopping bag pattern” (no quotes); there’s a bunch of sites that come up.
LOL Sue !!! Nothing worse than a dead mud cake :)
orchid40 said:
LOL Sue !!! Nothing worse than a dead mud cake :)
Sorry – forgot to paste the quote in.
SueBk said:
Happy Potter said:
Does anyone have a simple pattern for making your own shopping bags , or know a site? , using calico . Oh I know , stich up a couple tea towels together…but I don’t sew , totally useless at this, I can’t even cut straight, I need a pattern…
If I was closer I’d swap you shopping bags for baked goodies. Alas I’m in Brisvegas, and I don’t know that baked goodies would survive the trip. And after waiting for Crinkles worms to arrive I’m not sure I could stand the stress.
LOL SueBK , pity you don’t live closer, you could have had lemon meringue pie for lunch with me! lol. I’d gladly swap baked goodies for shopping bags. I’ll be in Brissy next March, I’ll see closer to the time where I’m going to be so I can visit you and others perhaps… and I have 2 sisters up there to catch up with too.
our shopping bags up here are knitted using wool or vines or even plastic nylon (these last a long time), they are crocheted (sp?)/knitted/woven and they are well strong…
I had a thread with some pictures on it once…
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pain master said:
our shopping bags up here are knitted using wool or vines or even plastic nylon (these last a long time), they are crocheted (sp?)/knitted/woven and they are well strong…I had a thread with some pictures on it once…
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I’ve got a couple of billums. The Man picked them up about 20 years ago. They don’t get much use, but they’re handy cause they squash up to nothing and stretch out to hold heaps. Great for the beach – the sand just falls out.
SueBk said:
pain master said:
our shopping bags up here are knitted using wool or vines or even plastic nylon (these last a long time), they are crocheted (sp?)/knitted/woven and they are well strong…I had a thread with some pictures on it once…
goes off looking
I’ve got a couple of billums. The Man picked them up about 20 years ago. They don’t get much use, but they’re handy cause they squash up to nothing and stretch out to hold heaps. Great for the beach – the sand just falls out.
Good call, they are excellent for the beach.
The Man’s billum (sitting over my latest quilt). Maybe PM can tell us where it comes from? I don’t know. It’s not wool. Quite a coarse fibre. Not sure what it is.
I use old pillow slips for laundry bags when i’m away. Would they work as a shopping bag?? Dunno. Chuck on a strap, she’d be right..
Better yet, don’t go shopping. Saves heaps of dough too!
I wonder what ram raiders use for shopping bags….
Why do they always drive into a shop? It wrecks the car and you have to pinch another one to escape. That’s just dumb. You’d back a ute in surely.
Then you could just load it up and drive out again. No bags required.
Then you could just load it up and drive out again. No bags required.
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a lot of thought has gone into this concept -
i see your time fishing on the rocks is not entirely wasted. LOL
pepe said:
Then you could just load it up and drive out again. No bags required.
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a lot of thought has gone into this concept -
i see your time fishing on the rocks is not entirely wasted. LOL
Too right Pepe. This working for a living has dags on it.
Longy said:
pepe said:
Then you could just load it up and drive out again. No bags required.
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a lot of thought has gone into this concept -
i see your time fishing on the rocks is not entirely wasted. LOL
Too right Pepe. This working for a living has dags on it.
hear, hear!
i’ve been looking around at polish websites but can’t find the shopping bags i’ve used in my childhood. they were stocking material cross tied at short intervals to make a kind of web with handles. it collapsed to about a handful when empty, and stretched to hold 2 or 3 plastic bags worth of shopping. wouldn’t hold very small objects though, which would fall through the webbing. much easier to take with you than todays big green recycled bags.
i suppose you could use old stockings to make this kind of bag, but it would require some skill. back in the days it was manufactured in a factory, as all other bags are, and sold as an ordinary shopping bag.
i’ve searched high and low but can’t find a picture…only some mention of it in some polish environmental conversations on forums.
i’m sure it would be a great hit now as a good re-usable shopping bag, that’s easy to take with you.
Dead jeans. Whack off the legs at crotch level – actually about 3 inched below the 4-way crotch join is best.
Cut neatly along the inner-leg seam so it separates into a front and back section. Cut up along the central front and back seams past the crotch intersection almost to the zip at the front, then about the same distance up the back. Lay the jeans down so that you’re looking at the front. Overlap the lumpier trimmed seam over the over part (below the zip), pin down and sew along the edge of the cut seam. Repeat for the back section.
Turn top section inside out. Match the front and back waistbands at the top, use the top as your (rough) level. Starting with the middle front and back front seams matching, pin the bottom cut edges roughly together. If you’re not very confident, draw a line 2B pencil is good) where you want to sew. If you’re fairly confident, sew the bottom edges together, trim off the excess, overlock/zigzag the raw edge (otherwise it will fray when you wash the bag.
For the handles I use the cords that go through the waists of trackpants. I make a plait out of 3 cords to make one handle. Sew first part of each handle in an appropriate spot on front or back of waistband – I just go back and forth lots and lots with a straight stitch, I’m not fussed about making it fancy, just strong. Then sew down the second end of the shorter plait and trim. Pin the last end down, making sure it’s the same length as the first, sew down and trim.
Et voilá!
If I get inspired, I’ll take some photos of a couple that I have in progress in my sewing pile. Maybe even a finished one or two.
Mightn’t be soon though ;)
This is what I’ve made and have cut out 20 more like it . Lot’s of different colours and I made heaps to share with family. I’ll get 30 odd for roughly 30c ea. Takes minutes to cut several out and 10 mins to sew one up.
Oh very smart, HP. I thought you said you couldn’t sew ! That looks very professional !!
Happy Potter said:
This is what I’ve made and have cut out 20 more like it . Lot’s of different colours and I made heaps to share with family. I’ll get 30 odd for roughly 30c ea. Takes minutes to cut several out and 10 mins to sew one up.
Very pretty!
But my jeans bags are yew-neek … :D … noice, different AND un-yews-ual, LOL!!
orchid40 said:
Oh very smart, HP. I thought you said you couldn’t sew ! That looks very professional !!
I can’t Orchid, a dressmaker friend to showed me how to cut straight and how to sew it up lol..but I’m on a roll now :)
Great little sewing machine I got ..love it.
Yeehah said:
Happy Potter said:
This is what I’ve made and have cut out 20 more like it . Lot’s of different colours and I made heaps to share with family. I’ll get 30 odd for roughly 30c ea. Takes minutes to cut several out and 10 mins to sew one up.Very pretty!
But my jeans bags are yew-neek … :D … noice, different AND un-yews-ual, LOL!!
I spose these are un-yews-ual with all the different colours, and left over scrap material made another 2 multi coloured ones :)
They will outlast anything you can get from the supermarket… made with rubber backed heavy curtain material cheap offcuts. I made wide straps so they don’t cut into my hand.
Happy Potter said:
This is what I’ve made and have cut out 20 more like it . Lot’s of different colours and I made heaps to share with family. I’ll get 30 odd for roughly 30c ea. Takes minutes to cut several out and 10 mins to sew one up.
God you put me to shame…..LOL
Took me all winter to sew a button on my pants, been using a safety pin to hold them shut.
Hate sewing unless its to do with knitting.
By the way looks amazingly FABBY TABBY:D
Happy Potter said:
made with rubber backed heavy curtain material cheap offcuts. I made wide straps so they don’t cut into my hand.For a cook and a barista yer doing a bluddy good job as a seamstress then!!
Yet another multi-talented type :D
Aww thanks for the compliments ladies :D
I really do belong in the kitchen though lol, theres some puckering on the corners of the bags , although it won’t distract from their purpose.
I wanted to make some because I’m tired of paying a dollar for the green ones and they don’t last very long at all.
I’m pressing several to send to my UK friend as well.
I have an apron pattern too that I’m going to use scraps of this material to make one, for when I wash Max .
Happy Potter said:
This is what I’ve made and have cut out 20 more like it . Lot’s of different colours and I made heaps to share with family. I’ll get 30 odd for roughly 30c ea. Takes minutes to cut several out and 10 mins to sew one up.
will go nicely with your rose covered boots HP – now to justify boots in a supermarket LOL.
will go nicely with your rose covered boots HP – now to justify boots in a supermarket LOL.
LOL Pepe, I might just do that , no one would bother me then hey hehehehe..