*** If you landed here because you saw the Fabric Produce Bag pattern on pinterest or another website, welcome! The pattern was free for the first 5 years. It is now available for $9 in the Daisy Janie retail shop. If you'd like to purchase this cute pattern, hop on over --> FABRIC PRODUCE BAG PATTERN & LICENSE Thank you!! ***
"In the US, an additional 5 million tons of waste is generated during the holidays. Four million tons of this is wrapping paper and shopping bags."
~ From Clean Air Council, Waste Facts & Figures. The staggering & disheartening waste statistics on this page alone will make you want to either crawl under a rock or, hopefully, motivate you to consider ways to reduce your waste throughout the year, particularly at Christmas time.
The Green Bag Lady, Teresa VanHatten-Granath, is definitely on the motivated side of things, and she created the Green Grocery Bag Challenge as an extension to her year-round efforts to get consumers to reduce their use of single-use plastic bags.
I created these fabric produce bags in the spirit of the Green Grocery Bag Challenge. They make excellent gift bags (I've already tucked a bottle of wine in one as a hostess gift), and they go together lightning faaaast! If you're looking for a gift project to whip-up that's equal parts handmade, eco-friendly, lasting, useful, adorable and unique, give it a try! I was able to chain stitch 6 of these in less than an hour.
Purchase produce bag pattern here.
Using Daisy Janie's organic cotton fabrics was the icing on the cake for this project!
+ DJ fabrics touch on midweight, adding extra durability and longevity to your bags.
+ DJ fabrics are organically produced without the use of chemicals (e.g. fertilizers, pesticides, bleaches, heavy metal inks). So you're starting with a green choice plus there aren't any toxic chemical residues permanently embedded in the fibers.
Interested in using Daisy Janie's organic cotton fabrics?
Find a retailer on my where to buy page.
These bags brought cheers and collective sighs of relief from everyone in my house: Rah-rah-aaah!! In my flat-out refusal to use plastic produce bags at the grocery, I have had many, ummm, 'interesting' checkout experiences with big piles of uncontained, roly-poly, round things. But that stops today, baby. With these new produce bags, we'll definitely get The Happy back when we checkout now!
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