Saturday, April 15, 2017

Shopping Bag

Our quilting group is still going strong and enjoying each others company. At our last meeting, one of ou members, Marietjie van Rensburg, showed us how to make a beautiful shopping bag out of an ordinary Pep bag.

I used a black one I bought and embroidered years ago with this rooster from Hatched in Africa.



We added a pocket at the back of the bag


into which the bag then folds up to create this neat little bundle shown below.






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