I won a shopping bag from the green bag lady website which was introduce to me by my good friend Claire F. from NY.
The light blue shopping bag from the green bag lady and the two peach color shopping bag are my very first made shopping bags.
When I found out that I was one of the receipt out of 80 winners, I feel inspired! I went on her website and watched the video of her making the green bag ( shopping bag), looks easy to make. Since I am not a sewer, I need motivation to sew and the green bag lady site give me that motivation.
This week I received the shopping bag blue in the picture) from the green bag lady named Teresa. Since, only couple days before the sales day ( Wednesday is the day I shop for food) and was anxious to use my shopping bag. I decided to try of making my very first green bag.
My very first try: I put a pocket because I like to put my receipt in the bag pocket.
P.S this bag made from my old bed sheet :)
P.S this bag made from my old bed sheet :)
It was not a good as the bag that I received, but I am working on it. The thread was going all over the place of the fabric :)). Well even though my first try was not as good as I expected to be, it did not discourage me to give up, instead I made another one ( above 1st pic). Today , I used it! The cashier at the store joke about not taking other store shopping bag. But I said, ' no these shopping bags two of them I made and one from the green bag lady, and she told me that it was a great idea to make your own bag. Well , I said "thanks to the green bag lady for the motivation". I even showed the cashier the website that she can go to for the pattern.
Anyway, as soon as we got home I took picture of my with the bag and as well as my daughter check out what I bought.
Eagerness to have the lettuce... yahhhh!
Here she is she got it! then...
Later in the morning after I picked up my hubby from school, we went back to the store and bought some fabric. I am making more shopping bags and bags that I can send to my family back in the Philippines. I am also planning to make bags for kids that do not have money to buy a school bag in the Philippines ( I was one of them using a plastic bag as a school bag). Of course using the same pattern from the green bag lady, because it was easy to follow for the first timer like me.
To Teresa, thank you very much for the nice, light weight shopping bag and for inspiring a lot of women to sew. More power to you!
that is so nice ate Nelds.. glad you too are now sewing. Keep doing it and the more you sew, the more you get better at it. There are tons of blogs now that teaches you things. So keep doing it! That is really nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks Adin. Once I mastered this shopping bag thing I will probably do more different types of sewing project. I have problem keeping it straight. But I agree with you, the more I saw the I get better. Salamat uli!
ReplyDeleteHi Neldajay, I just wanted to say that you did an amazing job w/ your green bags! I love the pocket you sewed on the outside, very smart & looks great! I also think its wonderful of you to think about the kids in the Philippines & make bags for them, you rock! I have to agree with you, Green Bag Lady is so inspiring & I had to try my hand at her tutorial too hehe! Anyway, keep up the awesome job at sewing! You're doing super!
ReplyDeleteHi Jodes,
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting! And thanks for the nice comment.
I will just take one at a time and hoping to make enough to send to my family and friends this summer.
Thanks again!
Ganda ng bag, Nelds. That's wonderful you are into sewing. I love sewing too and my first projects were cushion covers but that was a long time ago. And since then, I haven't done another project. You really did a good job making that bag. I love the colour you chose. I have a bag similar to that and I use the pocket for dockets/receipts too. Looking forward of your next project.
ReplyDeletethanks te Eden matapos lang ang klase eh maggagawa ako ng marami..ty te
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