I’ve been making a lot of tote bags recently, mostly from recycled pillowcases and duvet covers.
Now that supermarkets are starting to charge for their plastic bags, more and more people are getting back into the idea of using fabric shopping bags. They’re strong, they can fold up neatly into your handbag, and they can hold a heck of a lot of shopping!
I was planning to write up a tutorial for making a tote bag from a standard pillowcase, but I see that the first issue of the new Sew Hip Magazine has beaten me to it.
I’ve seen similar tutorials online, for bags made from pillowcases and pretty tea towels. My bags use only half of a pillowcase, and they’re not lined, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t go to town and make yours enormous, or as fancy as you like!