I entered my recycled t-shirt bag into the reusable grocery bag contest (click here). This idea is very utilitarian; this not a ‘beautiful’ bag entry. My inspiration came from three places:
1. Cleaning out my childrens’ closets and being completely irritated that they have stained their perfectly good white school uniform shirts on the playground at school.
2. At school, the fourth grade has been studying the effects of global warming and he came home yesterday completely beside himself over the potential effects. So I told him he needed to come up with an idea or plan of action against global warming instead of sitting around feeling sad about it.
3. As I am catching up on my favorite blog, I come across the reusable bag contest and realize that this is the perfect project to get my son involved with.
He now feels he is making a difference with global warming.The final result of the three inspirations is the recycled t-shirt bag. I think this bag hits almost all the points people are contemplating in the comments.
1. It’s using a recycled material that is washable and reusable. (My family donates or throws away at least 10 t-shirts a person per year)
2. Compact, can fit several into each other for storage.
3. Fabric is soft shouldn’t bruise the food.
4. Easy, easy to sew and probably could be made with no sewing and some fabric glue.
5. Edges could be serged, zigzag stitched and maybe left raw.
6. Could be screen printed with company logo
7. With a long sleeve shirt, the sleeve could cover a piece of cardboard/plastic canvas to make the bottom more structured.
8. Cool graphics from the original tee as decoration.
9. Decoration ideas are endless.
10. Once the bag is worn out, it will go in the rag box.
11. My son thought the unused collar pieces would work great to make baby bibs.
So far I found that my son’s boy large shirts are the best size. My husband’s XXL shirts looks huge but I will give it a try next time we are at the store. Both t-shirt and polo shirt fabrics work good. I used one of the short sleeves as a pocket and one long sleeve as an umbrella pocket. Another idea for my husband’s shirt was to insert the bottom of a box into it. This would work great for milk and bulky items. The downside is you are caring a box.
See Pictures above..
Next my son and I are looking at turning this into a fourth grade project. Will keep you posted.
1. Cleaning out my childrens’ closets and being completely irritated that they have stained their perfectly good white school uniform shirts on the playground at school.
2. At school, the fourth grade has been studying the effects of global warming and he came home yesterday completely beside himself over the potential effects. So I told him he needed to come up with an idea or plan of action against global warming instead of sitting around feeling sad about it.
3. As I am catching up on my favorite blog, I come across the reusable bag contest and realize that this is the perfect project to get my son involved with.
He now feels he is making a difference with global warming.The final result of the three inspirations is the recycled t-shirt bag. I think this bag hits almost all the points people are contemplating in the comments.
1. It’s using a recycled material that is washable and reusable. (My family donates or throws away at least 10 t-shirts a person per year)
2. Compact, can fit several into each other for storage.
3. Fabric is soft shouldn’t bruise the food.
4. Easy, easy to sew and probably could be made with no sewing and some fabric glue.
5. Edges could be serged, zigzag stitched and maybe left raw.
6. Could be screen printed with company logo
7. With a long sleeve shirt, the sleeve could cover a piece of cardboard/plastic canvas to make the bottom more structured.
8. Cool graphics from the original tee as decoration.
9. Decoration ideas are endless.
10. Once the bag is worn out, it will go in the rag box.
11. My son thought the unused collar pieces would work great to make baby bibs.
So far I found that my son’s boy large shirts are the best size. My husband’s XXL shirts looks huge but I will give it a try next time we are at the store. Both t-shirt and polo shirt fabrics work good. I used one of the short sleeves as a pocket and one long sleeve as an umbrella pocket. Another idea for my husband’s shirt was to insert the bottom of a box into it. This would work great for milk and bulky items. The downside is you are caring a box.
See Pictures above..
Next my son and I are looking at turning this into a fourth grade project. Will keep you posted.
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