A Speedy Bag

I made this bag for The Old Creamery Grocery in Cummington, MA. It’s a pair of shorts I never wore (they were a gift, ahem). I cut across the legs to open the crotch seam, and stitched a line across. I stitched across the bottom corners for a flat bottom (ha ha) to the bag. I used the part of the short legs that I cut off to make handles. I actually love it because it has pockets and a drawstring “waist” to help separate the goodies. It probably took me 30 mins or so to stitch up.

Get ready to stitch up your very own bag: Click here to see the Video.
This artist makes cool bags from found items and makes them even more unique by adding a little bit of art.

Come stitch up a bag to donate to The Bag Project: Cooper’s Corner in Florence:

Bag Sew at LuckyStitches
Wednesday, October 10 6pm-9pm
Brassworks Building, 132 Main Street, Rte 9, Haydenville (2nd floor above Steenburgh Real-Estate in the building closest to Northampton)

413.695-3092 for more info

The Bag Project was started by The Hilltown Sustainability Group. Initially the Project stitched up bags for The Old Creamery Grocery. The bags sit near the register, and customers may borrow the cloth bags to take home their groceries. The bags then get returned to the basket for the next customer. All in hopes of reducing the paper/plastic bag use. It makes sense doesn’t it? Why wait for the local government to ban the use of plastic bags? And, why buy fabric, when there are tons of clothes, sheets, pillows that are headed for the landfill, when they can be snipped up in such a way that they make perfect bags for toting things around? The Bag Project is catching on. Other towns want to participate. We need 3000 bags by November 19 when the project launches at Cooper’s Corners in Florence. So, come to The Bag Sew on Wednesday, and stitch it up.