Last week I got a package in the mail from my friend Kate. As a gift she made me these wonderful market bags!
The fabrics are sooo fun! Kate has such a great eye for color and prints. She puts together two totally different prints and colors, and they just work so well. I wish she could come into my home and pick all my linens and curtains, I bet she’d be a great interior designer as well.
I used the bags today for a big grocery store run. They worked great!
If you love these bags you should comment here telling Kate to open up an etsy shop and sell them ;-) cause I seriously want like 5 more!
Oh, & Kate… your bags will be the inspiration for my kitchen ;-) I may have to get you to ship me swatches of the fabrics to use in some decorative frame I want to work on soon. ::wink wink::
*& yes, the photo to the right shows our new cabinets and counters/back splash. The kitchen should be totally done by monday!!*
Heres a few more close ups of the prints.
Update:
Kate posted a comment to those interested in these amazing bags!
Here is what she said…
“You are so silly you silly-pants! I’m glad you love them. I love mine too, use them for everything.
For anyone interested, I get all my fabrics at Jo-Ann’s. I use the 45? home decor fabric for the outside, and just quilter’s cotton for the inside. The interfacing I use is Pellon 911FF. I use this tutorial with a few changes:
http://www.thelongestyear.typepad.com/EasyToteTut.pdf
The tutorial calls for home decor fabric on for inside and outside to make it reversible. I do that differently. And I cut the body of the bag 18? x 20? and put the handles on the 18? side so the bags are taller rather than wider. I also do my handles a bit differently. I cut a strip of each fabric 27? x 3?. I fold in the edges and iron to make them 2? wide. Then I put them together and sew the edges.
Anyone wanting to make them feel free to contact me with ?’s! mrs_kateboard@hotmail.com. But sorry, no Etsy shop for me. :) Too busy already. :) If you’re DYING for me to make you some let me know. WE’ll work something out. :)“
Oooooh I totally want some of those bags! I am also on the search for reusable sandwich bags. Any suggestions?
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I love this shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LoveForEarth :) I own her produce bags and cloth napkins, both are great!! so im sure her sandwich bags are nice too.
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I want some of those bags Kate!! Pretty please ;) Name your price.
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I love those bags! Wonder where she gets her fabrics?
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Now that is what I call shopping in style. Very pretty indeed.
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wow those are gorgeous!!!!!
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You are so silly you silly-pants! I’m glad you love them. I love mine too, use them for everything.
For anyone interested, I get all my fabrics at Jo-Ann’s. I use the 45″ home decor fabric for the outside, and just quilter’s cotton for the inside. The interfacing I use is Pellon 911FF. I use this tutorial with a few changes:
http://www.thelongestyear.typepad.com/EasyToteTut.pdf
The tutorial calls for home decor fabric on for inside and outside to make it reversible. I do that differently. And I cut the body of the bag 18″ x 20″ and put the handles on the 18″ side so the bags are taller rather than wider. I also do my handles a bit differently. I cut a strip of each fabric 27″ x 3″. I fold in the edges and iron to make them 2″ wide. Then I put them together and sew the edges.
Anyone wanting to make them feel free to contact me with ?’s! mrs_kateboard@hotmail.com. But sorry, no Etsy shop for me. :) Too busy already. :) If you’re DYING for me to make you some let me know. WE’ll work something out. :)
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Oh, and Drea, I’ll send you the scraps. Theirs not a whole lot left but you might be able to do something with them anyway. Remind me 27 times so I remember to get them to you. :)
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I was hoping she had a shop :) Please open one!
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I LOVE those bags and would love to have some! I might try to make one but if it doesn’t workout I will be contacting Kate for sure!
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I thik it’s safe to say that she has a client base already! LOL. I really likes these bags. Everyone loves customization and color and the regular grocery reusables work but aren’t pretty. It sounds like Kate is really busy but I think her etsy shop would be a success!
I’m going to bookmark this page in the attempt of making my own. Hopefully they’ll turn out okay.
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So cute! I’m surprised that she gets her fabric at JoAnn’s. I’m definitely making some of these for gifts. Thanks!
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