These bags were made from fat quarters that were in my Granmma's stash. She had cut a bunch herself that I believe she might have intended on selling online-- she was always extremely entrepreneurial. I would've loved to've turned these into a cool farm themed quilt, but they were the most appropriate fabric in my stash for a gift for my mom, considering she lives on a ranch.
I found tons of great fat quarter grocery bag tutorials online, of course. I'd love to try this one and this one. But they were all for patterns that went the opposite direction, so I ended up winging it and came up with a lined wider grocery bag.
They're fully lined, which basically made them turn out reversible. That was a bonus. That's why it looks like there are four in these pics-- there's only two. I intended for the striped hen print to be the outside of one and the cows to be the outside of the other, but mom can use them however she wants.
I gave them those square bottom corners, what are they called? This gal refers to them as "milk carton corners," haha.
My biggest disappointment was the handles, I wanted them extra sturdy but they came out kinda stretchy. That's because I mis-measured when I cut and made them too narrow to make a conventional strap, where you press the edges to the center then fold in half. I ended up sewing them into tubes, which didn't give them the heft I was hoping for. Next time, I'd just buy some nylon webbing, but the point of this exercise was to stash bust.
