Celebrate National Serger Month and Celebrate Earth Day, and sew our NEW! Shopping Bag Storage Sleeve Sewing Tutorial! Stitch this quick sewing project, and store plastic shopping bags in this convenient sleeve that is both a bag holder and bag dispenser!
NEW! Shopping Bag Storage Sleeve Sewing Tutorial by Nancy Zieman Productions
Approximate Finished Size 6″ W x 20″ Long
All seam allowances are 1/4″, unless otherwise noted.
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Fabric and Supplies:
- 5/8 yd. Afternoon Picnic Main Floral Cotton Quilting Fabric makes three! Or, one Fat Quarter makes one.
- 1/2 yd. 1/4″ Elastic
- Clover’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin
- Clover’s 6-in-1 Stick ‘n Stitch Seam Guide
- Clover’s Hot Ruler
- Clover’s 45mm Rotary Cutter, Cutting Mat, & Ruler
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Heart Shaped Straight Pins
- Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge
- Clover’s Supersize 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge
- Clover’s 5-1/8″ Bordeaux Ultimate Shears
- Erasable Gel Pen
- Schmetz Universal Size 80 Needle
- Iron
- Serger
Prepare & Cut Fabric
Prepare your fabrics! Pre-treat fabric by steaming and pressing, then, stabilize fabrics for the sewing process by pressing and starching fabrics with June Tailor’s Starch Savvy. Press and starch, press and starch.
- Cut two 7″ x 22-1/2″Afternoon Picnic Main Floral fabric rectangles.
Stitch Shopping Bag Storage Sleeve
- Serge along short ends and opposing long edges, on both fabric rectangles as shown.
- Using Clover’s Hot Ruler, press under 1″ along all four short ends.
- Unfold pressed under short ends and place fabric rectangles right sides together, aligning long serged edges. Pin. Using Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge, measure and mark 1″ opening along serged seam – at 1″ inside short ends. Repeat marking 1″ opening at opposite short ends at 1″ inside ends.
The 1″ marked openings are “no-sew zones” and will later form the casings for the elastic!
- Using a Schmetz Universal Size 80 Sewing Machine Needle in sewing machine, stitch serged edges together with 1/4″ seam allowance. Be sure to leave both 1″ marked openings un-stitched! Press seam open.
- Re-press under 1″ along both short ends.
- Using Clover’s 6-in-1 Stick ‘n Stitch Seam Guide on sewing machine, topstitch one short end at 3/4″ from folded edge – this creates the casing for the elastic! Be sure the distance between the stitching line and folded edge is 3/4″. Repeat 3/4″ topstitching on opposite short ends.
- Using Clover’s Supersize 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge and Erasable Gel Pen, mark a 7″ length of elastic– at one inch in from one end – and attach Clover’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin within the first 1″ marking. Do not cut the elastic, yet!
- Insert Clover’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin into one open end – of one 3/4″ elastic casing.
- Advance elastic into casing, stopping when the 7″ marking on the elastic aligns with the fabric edge – of elastic casing opening.
- At sewing machine, stitch casing opening closed–catching elastic end in stitching. Cut elastic at fabric edge.
- Continue advancing elastic into casing, stopping when the 1″ marking on the elastic aligns with the opposite elastic casing opening.
- At sewing machine, stitch opposite casing opening closed–catching elastic end in stitching. Cut elastic at fabric edge.
- At sewing machine, repeat steps above on opposite short end elastic casing.
- Both short ends with be gathered by the elastic.
- Align bag right sides together, and serge remaining un-sewn long seam.
- Turn bag right side out.
- Fill with reusable shopping bags.
- Hang vertically on the inside of a closet door with one repositional sticky hook. Hang from hook with the elastic loop exposed at seam opening – remember the two “no-sew” zones? The elastic hang loops are accessible through the seam openings made possible by the “no-sew” zones
- Or hang horizontally on a side wall of under-sink cabinet with two repositional sticky hooks!
Celebrate National Serger Month and Celebrate Earth Day, and mindfully and conveniently reuse plastic shopping bags with our NEW! Shopping Bag Storage Sleeve! Our New! Shopping Bag Storage Sleeve is such a fast and fun sewing project, you’ll be sewing several in as little as one-hour! 5/8 yard Afternoon Picnic Main Floral Cotton Quilting Fabric makes three Shopping Bag Storage Sleeves!
Shopping Bag Storage Sleeves Sewing Tutorial Fabric and Supplies:
- 5/8 yd. Afternoon Picnic Main Floral Cotton Quilting Fabric makes three! Or, one Fat Quarter makes one.
- 1/2 yd. 1/4″ Elastic
- Clover’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin
- Clover’s 6-in-1 Stick ‘n Stitch Seam Guide
- Clover’s Hot Ruler
- Clover’s 45mm Rotary Cutter, Cutting Mat, & Ruler
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Heart Shaped Straight Pins
- Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge
- Clover’s Supersize 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge
- Clover’s 5-1/8″ Bordeaux Ultimate Shears
- Erasable Gel Pen
- Schmetz Universal Size 80 Needle
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For a chance to be the random winner a Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin from Clover, please leave a comment sharing where you’ll use your Shopping Bag Storage Sleeves! Kitchen, Bathroom, RV?
Clover will give away one Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin to one US resident in the 48 contiguous states. Winner must reply within 30 days to the official giveaway announcement email message – sent from Nancy Zieman Productions. Email Team NZP at info@ziemanproductions.com.
Happy Sewing,Team Nancy Zieman
Nancy Zieman Productions. LLC.
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