I got all kinds of ambitious last night. I had left my lunch bag at work and was sad but also it pushed me to make a lunch bag. I had ordered a scrap pack from the custom fabric group QA before they decided to shut down. And in that pack I got some PUL. Which I thought would be perfect for the inside of my bag. And it’s working so far but I have never sewn with it and don’t think I want to even though I have a bunch left .
The PUL is from the celestial group they ran that had children sleeping on clouds and moons. QA was a people of color focused group so they always printed fabric with people of color on it. I’m not a person of color but I loved the designs they had.
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I am using plain white pul to line the grocery bags I am making. It is moisture resistant and yet washable. With our stores removing plastic bags soon, everyone is scrambling for safe ways to transport food. I am trying to think of something to keep things like meat/chicken away from other foods…thinking of making four bags: dry good, produce, meats/chicken, fridge/freezer
Hmm I’m no expert in grocery bag making. But for the frozen one I would get something like insilbright and some batting for the inside. Also doing something like PUL or an oil cloth/vinyl fabric inside incase of spills.
For the meats I would do a bag with a lining and have the PUL, oil cloth, or vinyl on the inside. Something washable but not something you have to throw the whole thing in the laundry to clean it.
For dry goods just making sure it’s sturdy. So using more of a canvas type of fabric and reinforcing seams. Maybe doing French seams too as that is double seams and hides raw edges.
For produce I have seen a lot of people go for mesh bags. I would do some of those and some of the dry goods bags as well.
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oh good ideas! I am probably going to use a crochet market bag for the produce…it is really stretchy…I use it at the farmers market, so guess I will also use it at the grocery…
I am using old heavy curtain fabric that I am repurposing…the meats bag was of concern because of leakage…
hmmm…I think I have a 31 insulated bag I could use for frozen and fridge…we mostly used paper bags because we could recycle those but plastic was good for frozen and fridge…it has me rethinking now that they will not be available
If you have a small/or appropriately-sized-for-your-meat-transport-needs beach cooler you could just use that for the meats- they clean up pretty easily. (plus: excuse to get/make a new beach cooler!) Or, if you have an old beach cooler with the removable plastic tub-like insert that could be repurposed for the inside of a meats bag.
25/29 … picked up a cold from my oldest grand daughter so haven’t had much energy the last couple days but still able to crochet. Started another baby afghan …
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