This isn't looking great great but I was so excited that it worked I wanted to share it. This is a tutorial from Whip It.

What I'm showing you is about 4" x 7.5" and looks like a wallet right? Wrong. It's an 18" x 14" shopping bag.

You fold it up and put it into what looks like a pocket on the front of the bag and it fits in your purse.. or whatever you carry... so if a shopping spree hits you... like you see a quilt shop.. you're all set to bring your stuff home and be environmentally friendly at the same time.

I made some changes. Her pocket was single layer and so was the bag. I can't see one layer being strong enough and I wanted the pocket to be heavier. So I can see I need to make the pocket a tich longer so the bulk of the bag will fit better. And I did my handles my way... okay, I admit it, I got lost in the directions half way through and made the rest up. I even had to make my own continuous bias binding.. which actually took me longer than all the rest of it put together. I think I'd like the binding a different colour from the pocket too. And I need practice putting it on better. Maybe I'll use commercial binding.

Thanks for looking. I'm going to make a few for Christmas gifts. I'll keep this one and use it myself cause I don't care what it looks like.