I live in a little tiny town, we have ONE grocery store. For the past few years there’s been rumors that this little grocery store is going to start charging money for plastic bags. I guess they figure if IKEA can charge for bags then why can’t they? This grocery store has had their store brand reusable grocery bags out for sale for a year or so but I decided I’d rather not use there bags so I made my own, actually I made a bunch of grocery bags. I made so many, I used them for Christmas wrap, instead of wrapping some gifts with wrapping paper, I stuck the gifts in a reusable grocery shopping bag. The gifts looked colorful in their custom gift bags and for the recipient, they got two gifts in one. PERFECT!
- To my aunt who is a member of The Red Hat Society
, we gave two bottles of wine in a reusable grocery sack made with Red Hat Ladies Fabric.
- For my mom who has a passion for hot tea, and her kitties, we gave her a bunch of different flavors of hot tea in a kitty fabric reusable grocery bag.
- My MIL who considers herself a Wine Connoisseur, her gift was given in a reusable grocery sack made from wine fabric.
- My SIL, who goes crazy over anything Western Themed, we put her gift in a reusable grocery bag made with Western Fabric.
I also made up a few of these reusable grocery bags in Halloween fabrics and my kids used them for trick or treating on Halloween. They loved the bags, they didn’t cut into their hands like most bags do. After Halloween, I had to take them back and my kids put up a fight, they wanted to keep and use them for themselves.
As much as I love the grocery bags I made, I haven’t yet started using them at the grocery store. One of these days, very soon I hope to start using them, if could only remember to take the grocery bags with me to the grocery store.
Free Reusable Grocery Bag Patterns:
- This is the reusable grocery bag sewing pattern I used for all my bags. The picture above is the first bag I made using this free pattern. I adore this pattern, you’ll deconstruct an actually plastic grocery bag and use it as your template. You can use any size plastic bag, so if you are wanting an extra large reusable grocery bag, then use an extra large plastic grocery bag as your pattern. It takes me approximately one hour to construct one bag and requires 1/2 yard of fabric for the outside of the bag and 1/2 yard of fabric for the inside. This is an extra strong bag.
- Pillowcase grocery bag pattern. This is a really cute easy to make bag.
- Beautiful classy grocery bag pattern.
- Use up those old sheets for this great reusable grocery bag sewing pattern.
- Cute basic tote style grocery bag pattern, you can find the PDF here.
- Another cute tote / grocery bag or lunch bag.
- 13 ways to make free reusable grocery bags for FREE! Cool ideas for making grocery bags out of stuff you already have on hand.
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