In an effort to be eco-friendly, Scott and I do our best to shun disposable plastics at every turn. Unfortunately, economics don’t always make this an easy task. Gladware is cheap, easy to replace, and travels well. As much as we’d like to pack all lunches and picnics in adorable vintage mason jars, that’s just not very practical. While we are waiting for the next great jump in brown bag lunch technology, we’ll just have to be satisfied with replacing our Ziplock Bags with adorable, reusable, and mostly eco-friendly handmade fabric snack bags.
I made mine using a nifty tutorial from a blog called I Have to Say… It’s a very simple pattern, so it took pretty much no time to knock out a half dozen or so of these little babies. Similarly to my style of cooking, I’m not one for exact measurements. It’s a wonder I can sew anything at all with my aversion for straight lines and mathematics. I suppose it is a credit to this tutorial that these little bags came out so well. Yes, they are all of slightly varied sizes and shapes, but hey, you aren’t going to call the sewing police on me for not using a ruler, right?
Right?
Don’t be such a stick in the mud. Seriously, all you have to do is cut a rectangle from two pieces of fabric lying on top of eachother to get this right. If i can do it, a monkey can do it.
A very intelligent, talented, and creatively inspiring monkey that is.
(With freckles.)