Make your own recycled grocery bag
Supplies: Old canvas trap, old wetsuit, sewing machine and thread.
Step: 1 Measure canvas and cut out measure width 17" measure height 38" cut out.
Step: 2 Prep sides to be sewn fold canvas in half, align the corners, secure with pins.
Step: 3 Sew up the sides, leave a quarter inch seam allowance.
Step: 4 Make a boxed bottom, pull open canvas at bottom; have stitching crease to form a triangle. Use a triangle template approx 4", pin to secure boxed out!
Step: 5 Sew across triangle trim off excess to a quarter inch seam allowance.
Step: 6 Sew up top fold top of bag down 1 inch twice, pin the double fold. Sew it, now ready for straps.
Step: 7 make straps from old wettie, cut arm off, cut one panel into two pieces, 2" width by 15" length, pin neoprene straps to bag. Sew a box shape to secure stitch to the edge, lower needle, turn 90 degrees, repeat until box is complete. Check back later how to add a graphic to your bag...
Music: "Rain Cloud" The Blank Tapes; courtesy of White Noise records.
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