Fused Grocery Sack- Bag

For Christmas gifts I thought I would try and "go green" with the wrapping materials. Green was taking more time and plastic bags then I had so i made 5 of these beauties and will make more in the future...

This is a picture of the finished bag overall and
inside of the bag

I followed the instructions from this blog post on Etsy to make these bags to the size of the grocery store reusable bags that i have found to be a good size.

In short you cut off the handles and the bottom of the bag and then cut the bag down the sides to get one long sheet.

collect 6 of these sheets and orient any logos as you want but make sure the ink is in the inside.

then place the 6 sheets of plastic bags between two sheets of parchement paper or wax paper and iron carefully. If the iron is too hot it will melt and make a big hole in middle of the sheet and if it is too cool it won't melt at all. patience is required when fusing bags.

Also note that the sheets will shrink a little as they are fused so you will probably need more bags than you think.

To make a larger sheet just place the sheets overlapping by 1/4 inch and sew a zig zag stitch to connect them. When sewing the edges of the bag place treat it like any other fabric and sew the edges together with the "good" sides of the "fabric" facing each other.

I recommend using the zig zag stitch for all seams and have fun with the color of thread.