Free Online Tutorials For Making Reusable Shopping Bags

Here are a few of the 25 reasons listed :

#10 " An estimated one million birds and 100,000 turtles and other sea animals die of starvation each year after ingesting discarded plastic bags which block their digestive tracks."

#12 "It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the amount of plastic bags the US uses per year."

To read more of the 25 good reasons to go reusable, follow the link. You'll be surprised.

What You'll Need

1/4 yard blue print (straps)
2/3 yard blue-and-green print (pockets)
2 10-1/4-x-14-1/4-inch rectangles thin, firm batting
1 yard green print (lining)

Finished Bag
%u25A08 x 10 x 4 inches
%u25A0Quantities are for 44/45-inch-wide, 100% cotton fabrics.
%u25A0Measurements include 1/4-inch seam allowances.
%u25A0Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.

Cut Your Fabrics
Cut pieces in the following order.

From blue print, cut:
2 4-x-34-1/2-inch strips

From blue-and-green print, cut:
2 14-1/2-x-16-1/2-inch rectangles

From green print, cut:
2 14-1/2-x-20-1/2-inch rectangles

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Make this super cute reusable shopping bag with the simple instructions found Right Here At All People Quilt

Start this in the morning, and by afternoon you'll have a cloth tote for the farmer's market or grocery store. For this spacious bag project maker Judy Sams Sohn chose eye-catching blue-and-white prints from Always & Forever collection by Alex Anderson for P&B Textiles.

Finished bag will be " 15x15-1/2x5".

Bright colored tote bags

Quilt fabric
for Timeless Treasures

Bags Fabric

I found this wonderful tutorial at Noodleheads blogspot on how to make a messenger bag out of discarded old cargo pants.
The tutorial is very easy to follow and it has plenty of pictures to show you exactly how to proceed.Tutorial with pictures

Crochet a sturdy bag with useful pockets for all your gardening items. This gardening bag crochet pattern features attractive complimentary colors of yarn.

What I like about it is that you can easily wash it in the washing machine and it's easy to make.
I would use different colors though as I am not crazy about the ones on the photo.

Pattern Here

Reusable Bags for Shopping Lead to Solar Power

Here is an excerpt of the article "Remember our blog back in 2009 about Colorado ski towns Telluride and Aspen? The residents battled to see who would hold bragging rights over using the most reusable bags for shopping-and earn new solar panels for its high school. That original competition resulted in the 2009 Colorado Association of Ski Towns (CAST) Reusable Bag Challenge.

Why are we writing about this two years later? The town that won the Reusable Bag Challenge just debuted a new $50,000 solar power system at its middle school-a system that was created because of the town's victory back in 2009."
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Read The Whole Story Here

"ConKerr Cancer: A Case for Smiles" was started when Ryan Kerr was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer at the age of twelve. Despite his illness - and many, many trips to the hospital - Ryan lived a full life of school, sports and friends. To make his hospital room cheerier, his mom Cindy began making fun, whimsical pillowcases to brighten up his day and put a smile on his face. Ryan liked them so much that Cindy started making pillowcases for the other children in the Oncology Unit. In a short time, the pillowcase project grew in amazing ways and has provided more than 175,000 pillowcases to sick children. Thousands of volunteers from across North America and South Africa have joined in so that ConKerr has more than 100 chapters serving over 150 hospitals.

ConKerr Cancer volunteers also visit oncology units and outpatient clinics in order to guide young patients as they learn to sew pillowcases for themselves, their family and their friends. Volunteers bring all that is required for the children to design and create the perfect masterpiece. Girls and boys, mothers, fathers and siblings, all join in for this fun distraction during one of the most stressful experiences of life. But the benefits go far beyond distraction. The activity boosts the children's self esteem, confidence and sense of mastery. They are so proud of themselves when they see what they've made that they flash giant smiles of satisfaction!

ConKerr Cancer has been able to make wonderful progress towards fulfilling our goal of making hospital stays as pleasant as possible for chronically ill children and their parents. Simultaneously the pillowcase project has fostered a spirit of community and volunteer service in communities across North America. Unfortunately the number of sick children never ends, and we must continue to expand our efforts to help brighten sick children's lives and raise awareness about childhood cancer.

We hope you will join us - we guarantee it will put a smile on your face too!

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This is a perfect toy for a little guy to store his small cars and carry them everywhere he goes.
Cozy Car Caddy Tutorial

Not only this crochet dust mitt is pretty useful but it's also good for the environment.
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If you like to crochet, here is a fantastic pattern that I found this morning.

Of course, you can use any color that you like better.

Photo And Pattern Here

DIY Bag Lover

Those cute little treat bags are found in the Fall 2010 issue of Quilts & More.

Happy Zombie Halloween Bags

According to this website "This bag takes about three hours to make, if you have sewing experience. If you don't have experience, it might take a little longer, but you WILL be able to do it! "Photo

Shows 27 pictures. Well explained.

Here I found a "Super Beginner Pattern" that
requires only 2 half yard pieces of fabric.

Think of all the combinations that you could come up
with. By using used pieces of fabric, you can make
your bags totally free and enjoy hours of fun doing this project.

Here I'm enclosing a picture of a bag that I REALLY LOVE, it's a Flickr Picture But take note that it's not the
design in the free pattern.

Materials:
Around 150 Yards of Worsted Weight Yarn (preferably cotton)
Size H or J Crochet Hook (Go with the J if you crochet tightly)

Gauge:
The gauge of this pattern is not important because it will stretch.

Construction:
This bag is crocheted in the round from the top down. It might be helpful to use a paperclip or a stitch marker to define the start of the round.

Instructions:
CH- Chain
SL- Slip Stitch
SC- Single Crochet
DC- Double Crochet

Top & Handles:
1. CH 86.
2. SL 1 to join chain into a circle being careful not to twist the foundation row. SC the next 86 ST (row 1). SC two more rounds.
3. The next row you will be separating the handles from the body of the bag. SC 13, CH 11 (Skip 17 to create first handle), SC 26, CH 11 (Skip 17 to create second handle), SC 13.
4. SC 74 (one round)

Body
1. CH 4, {Skip 1, DC 1, CH 1} %u2190Repeat the bracketed stitches until you reach the end of the round.
2. DC into the opening created by the chain stitch openings of the previous round. {CH 1, DC 1} %u2190 Repeat the bracketed stitches for three more rounds.
3. (CH 2, DC 1} %u2190 Repeat for one round.
4. {CH 2, DC 1} %u2190Repeat for four more rounds.
5. {CH 1, DC 1} %u2190 Repeat for one round.
6. {CH 1, DC 1} %u2190 Repeat for one round.
7. Bag Bottom: At the end of the previous round, lay the bag flat so that the handles are lying on top of one another. While holding the front and the back of the bag together, SC through both sides to close up the bottom of the bag, and tie a knot at the end.
8. Weave in ends.

Use of Pattern:
If you would like to post about this pattern on your website or blog, please include a link to this entry. Copyright 2008 Cassiemarie - All Rights Reserved. You may use this pattern to crochet items for personal use or charity. You may not sell the pattern itself or any items made using this pattern under any circumstances, neither individually nor in any compilation of patterns. You may not copy this pattern and post it elsewhere, not on a web page, nor message board, nor via e-mail, nor via any other electronic means. If you make modifications to the pattern, please only post the modifications you made, not the entire modified pattern. Thanks! :)

Tutorial For Reusable Shopping Bag

See How Easy It Is To Make This Beautiful Bag.

There are places popping up where you can swap your bags with different people from all over the map.
That should be interesting to check it out.
Swap Bags

There are a lot of reusable bags for sale on the net.
If you check Flickr photos, you'll be amazed at the talent out there.
Also, it's nice to encourage stay at home moms who make those bags and
want to earn an income from home.Photo of army bag