I finished the grocery bags today. Seven ugly-fabulous bags to collect our groceries in for as long as they should last! I actually have an 8th bag cut out and ready to sew, but I don’t have enough cotton webbing left for the straps.

Of course, it would be most helpful if we remembered to BRING the new bags when we went on our grocery shopping outing this evening.

Oh well.

I had an abbreviated sewing evening tonight because we had to keep the baby up so we could dose him with tylenol before bed (shots at the doc’s today). I didn’t finish anything, but I FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY started on our re-usable grocery bags. I cut them out ages ago, but I just never got around to sewing them. I thought I would treat you to a photo of the tremendously ugly, yet so appropriate fabric that I got for them. Yes, that is lettuce and olives with leopard stripes on pink. You are not imagining things. It’s a cotton/cotton blend that I got on super sale at Hancock’s. The cotton webbing that you see will be the straps. Sewing the straps on is the most tedious part because I have to pin to keep them straight, that’s where I am now. I have 7 LARGE bags cut out, straps sewn on to two of them. With any luck, we’ll have reusable bags in time for our next grocery shopping extravaganza!