Grocery Tote Tutorial, Part II: Sew
If you missed the first part of this tutorial, please look at it now. It tells you how to cut all the pieces!
Now that you have all of your pieces cut, it’s time to sew it all together. First thing you want to do is choose what pieces will be the lining, and what will be the outer shell. Once you’ve decided that, then take the two pieces for the outside of the tote, put the right sides together, and sew them at the two sides … read on, Fisherboy »
Grocery Tote Tutorial, Part I: Prep
As promised, I’m here to deliver my first sewing tutorial, to show you how I made my reversible grocery tote bag. This entry is just the first in a (small) series of posts on the matter. I’m doing it in steps for two reasons: 1) I think it breaks things up a little more to make it easier to follow and 2) I have little ones at home, and they only let me do a little bit at a time.
So if you didn’t read on, Fisherboy »
Reversible Grocery Tote
So, we recently discovered that our local grocery store would give us money off our grocery bill if we brought in our own bags to stuff our purchases in. Now, we’re pretty good at “going green” – we recycle and it’s pretty much habit now to separate our trash as we go along, we carpool, and we try to remain conscientious about what we’re doing to reduce our carbon footprint and output.
Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t “tree huggers” either – but I do think we try … read on, Fisherboy »