"Strawberry" Shopping Bag

We saw the news about a HUGE chunk of the Galcier in Greenland breaking overnight. Its so sad to see Earth metamorphosing pretty much into a state shown the Sci-Fi movie, The Waterworld. In it, its covered entirely with water and people live on ships for thier entire lives in a filthy condition ...in the hopes that the myth of 'Dry Land' might be true.

Okay, I know I'm wayyy late to join in the revolution of actually making a cloth grocery bag, but I have been carrying a fabric grocery bag with me all the time since I started having to go out and shop groceries for myself! :D


I made today what I'd been long desiring to make - Foldable Grocery bags.. and what do they fold into?? Strawberries!!! DH told me today that MIL and DIL are coming over at our's this weekend which means any hopes of sewing on weekends go down the drain! Since now I knew the confirmed date of MIL's arrival, I thought I'd mess up our living room a little and still be able to tidy things up before she arrives.

A Million thanks to the great seamstresses that uploaded their tutorials for the Strawberry bag!!





The bag's pretty simple to make and so is adding the strawberry pockets. I don't have a serger so I made it with with French seams. Lining would have made it too bulky. I used two tutorials but adhered mostly to the pattern the one on burdastyle posted (they both have pretty much the same dimensions). It folds up into the most adorable strawberry ever!! I'm so loving this!! I hope to make three more (I've cut the fabric and handles and all for three others... no idea when they'll be completed...)




Here are the tutorials I referred to:

Strawberry Bag Tutorial
"Strawberry" Shopping Bag (with PDF Pattern)

My new motto - Go Green! ...and have tons of fun doing that!!