Say no to plastic bags!

Here's some sewing I did yesterday using a very clever pattern which taught me some new tricks [if you sew and you've not heard of french seams then I suggest looking them up!].  They're reusable fabric shopping bags that you can roll up and pop in your handbag for that moment when you realise you left your bag for life at home.

I made three types.  The top ones are from Ikea fabric and the bottom one apparently is Liberty!  A man on the market pretty much forced me to buy this and about 7 other bits of fabric, who knows if its actually Liberty or not, but I quite like the little birds on it.

They look just like squares with handles sewn on

But some nifty folding that goes on in the making means they sort of have sides.

With a bit of folding and rolling they're good to go.