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Eco-Chic Bags: Simple Sewing Projects to Make Tote Bags, Purses, Gift Bags, and More
Repurpose natural materials into beautifully useful items and reduce your plastic waste in the process with projects for homemade tote bags, grocery bags, gift bags, and more!
Eco-Chic Bags offers forty handmade projects with step-by-step instructions and visual aids for popular machine and hand sewing techniques. Appropriate for sewers of all skill levels, projects are budget-friendly and made with a variety of fabric-based materials like canvas and cotton, making Eco-Chic Bags the perfect resource for eco-conscious crafters.
Sew-it-yourself projects include: Learn how to create and customize your life with Eco-Chic Bags !
Eco-Chic Bags offers forty handmade projects with step-by-step instructions and visual aids for popular machine and hand sewing techniques. Appropriate for sewers of all skill levels, projects are budget-friendly and made with a variety of fabric-based materials like canvas and cotton, making Eco-Chic Bags the perfect resource for eco-conscious crafters.
Sew-it-yourself projects include: Learn how to create and customize your life with Eco-Chic Bags !
- GenresSewingNonfiction
176 pages, Paperback
Published July 28, 2020
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November 20, 2022
If you are a sewist then you will have left over but useful pieces of fabric. These bags can soak those up while replacing ugly single use plastic things - win-win for the planet.
Contents:
- About this book
- A note on eco-friendly fabrics - worth saying.
- Sewing tips and FAQs - very minimal but the projects are simple and there are plenty of ways to find out how to sew without or without a machine elsewhere.
Totes x 12 - made from both stretch and woven fabrics, lined and unlined, with a base or not. Each 'pattern' includes all instructions so it's repetitive to read through but means you can just pick a page and start without referring to other pages.
Bags and Purses (2 x purse / 10 x bag) - there's some more variety here but basically drawstring, zippered or bags with handles in various sizes and shapes.
Home Decor - all sorts: baskets and boxes, blanket, tablet case, vase, brush (tool) roll, re-usable cup sleeve, draft excluder, sandwich wraps and sacks (beeswaxed), cleaning mitt. (usefulness is in the eye of the beholder for that one, I would not use good fabric for cleaning).
Patterns - I think they should have made the book larger format and avoided the awkward instructions to size up 10%. You can likely freehand draw larger patterns to suit.
Clear instructions and photos, nice fabric choices.
Contents:
- About this book
- A note on eco-friendly fabrics - worth saying.
- Sewing tips and FAQs - very minimal but the projects are simple and there are plenty of ways to find out how to sew without or without a machine elsewhere.
Totes x 12 - made from both stretch and woven fabrics, lined and unlined, with a base or not. Each 'pattern' includes all instructions so it's repetitive to read through but means you can just pick a page and start without referring to other pages.
Bags and Purses (2 x purse / 10 x bag) - there's some more variety here but basically drawstring, zippered or bags with handles in various sizes and shapes.
Home Decor - all sorts: baskets and boxes, blanket, tablet case, vase, brush (tool) roll, re-usable cup sleeve, draft excluder, sandwich wraps and sacks (beeswaxed), cleaning mitt. (usefulness is in the eye of the beholder for that one, I would not use good fabric for cleaning).
Patterns - I think they should have made the book larger format and avoided the awkward instructions to size up 10%. You can likely freehand draw larger patterns to suit.
Clear instructions and photos, nice fabric choices.
June 28, 2023
Good sewing book, especially if you like making something nice out of something no longer functional (hence the "Eco" in the title). The directions were written well. The pictures are most helpful. I found a lot of projects I can see me completing.
March 8, 2026
These bags are so cute, but the directions are not at all beginner friendly— at least the toiletry bag. Some of the basic bags seem doable with easy instructions, but the directions are lacking for some. It seems like a book of ideas for sewists that know what they’re doing.
January 5, 2022
If you love bags and can make them, this book is for you. Simply done, easy to read and with patterns. There’s just no excuses! #JustDoIt
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