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Tutorial: Reusable produce bag from a t-shirt
Sarah from Sadie Seasongoods shows how you can make these reusable produce bags from thrifted t-shirts. Take them with you to the farmer’s market in the coming months to bring home some farm fresh goodies. Or, when the weather turns hot, use it to carry a book and a towel with you to the pool!
Click below for her tutorial:
Thrifted T-Shirt Produce Bags, by Sadie Seasongoods
[photo from Sadie Seasongoods]
The bag is simple, uses very little fabric (about 2/3rds of a fat quarter), has no fussy inside pockets (although you can add your own if you like), and takes me well less than 30 minutes to print the pattern, cut out and sew. But quick and simple doesn’t mean it’s not awesome!
It’s the sort of bag that is versatile enough to be used for lots of applications, not just cosmetics and toiletries. Keep all your pens and pencils in order, use it for a small first aid kit for the car, keep it in your desk at work for a few headache pills and other personal supplies.
Make some for yourself, for gifts or to sell.
Thanks for sharing! This is great idea, especially right around Earth Day. 🙂
If anyone has too many old t-shirts—even more than they can handle in bag form, thanks to Sadie’s tutorial—I suggest donating some to Morsbags. They’re a charity that takes volunteer-created cloth bags and distributes them in stores to reduce plastic bag usage. Here’s their website: http://www.morsbags.com
They’re fresh in my mind because I recently included their organization in an article about sewing for charities: http://www.sewgal.com/sew-for-charities/
This is an amazing idea to make a reusable bag from a T-shirt, I really like it! I have a lot of old T-shirts, so I’ll make something like that! The tutorial is indeed wonderful!