Skip to main content

How to Make a Cool Car Trash Bag

This is my trash bag but it was not an original ideal, I saw it over at Meridian Road  awhile back and realize that this was something I needed bad. You see I am notorious for throwing my trash into the back and would forget about it. Now that I have my new car and not the farm truck, I wanted to get out of that habit. What made this bag stand out for me was the fact that you can seal the bag shut so trash won't fall out and will keep the smell in and not in your car.


Doesn't it look sharp, now the one I saw was made from an old money bag, I do not have an old money bag but I thought this ticking fabric would look good. Very easy to make and I'll share how I did mine, you can also see how she made her at her blog too.


Start with a large Zip Lock bag and cut out 2 pieces of fabric about a 1/4 - 1/2 inch longer around the sides and about 1 1/2 inch at the top.

 Sew the side seams, I had a fold on the bottom so I didn't need to sew the bottom but if you did not have a fold on bottom sew that seam also.


Fold twice the top edge about 1/2 wide. Gives it a nice clean look.
You will top stitch it at the bottom edge of fold.

It should look like this.

You will need to cut a piece for the loop for the bag to hang, now  I cut  a piece of fabric that is 16 x 4 1/2 inches. The bag I saw had a medal ring to use for attaching. 

Fold in half and press.

You will fold in half again each side and press.

Will look like this.

Now you need to press a small fold on each end.

voila

Now top stitch on each side, I did it about 1/8 inch from edge.

Fold the strip in half and attach at one side.

Now it's time to insert the bag. Just slip it in there as far as it goes and you will sew around the top of bag

Like so

It will look like this, and you are ready to go.

Again VOILA

Till Next Time
Kat
=^..^=





Comments

Post a Comment

Welcome friends to share a thought, I enjoy reading them and will try my best to reply back by email most of the time. But if you do not hear back it's because you are a no-reply blogger.

Popular posts from this blog

How to Make a Portable Design Wall

I had wanted to get a portable design wall to take to retreats but did not want to pay the price. Looked at various pins on pinterest and took ideas from more than one to come up with my verison. It worked out great and only cost a fraction of the price. The PVC pipes, joints and 2 yards of felt cost under $22.00 My design wall is 4' x 4' which stands approximately 5 1/5' tall. For this size need 2 - 10ft length of 3/4" PVC pipe for the frame and 4ft of 1" PVC pipe for the feet Cut the 3/4" PVC into 4 - 4' section                                                                                       2 - 1' section              Cut the 1"  PVC into 4 - 1' section          The joints you'll need will be 2 - 3/4" elbows 2 - 3/4" T's 2 - 3/4" to 1" T (this will be the base of the Feet) 4 - 1" elbow Also need pipe cutters (this cost me almost as much

Yarn Along 2/20/13 Spoon Pin Doily

It's snowing here and I know some of you are tired of snow but here we will take the moisture any way we can get it. Plus it just gives me a reason to stay in and work on some of my projects. In this picture I'm not sure if you can make it out but in the background there are some wild turkeys that hang around the house sometime, just  chilling This project I'm working on is Spool Pin Doilies.   I had never heard of them before until Bonnie Hunter had mentioned it on her blog . She a had a viewer send her one for her sewing machine along with a pattern. I did not like the pattern but loved the idea so I decided to make up my own version. I wanted a more simple, smaller and fuller doily. So I tried different thread sizes to get one that I like. (From left to right) I tried sock yarn, which I'll redo because I think I like that look. Heavy weight crochet thread, nope too big Bamboo yarn, I like it. Looks good on my Kenmore. Pearl cott

Blog Hop Party Giveaway

I am taking part in the holiday Blog Hop Party. I and many, many other cool quilty blogs are joined in on this. So take a moment to check them out and see all kinds of neat things. Besides being interesting each one of us has something to give away and mine is this book "Christmas with Possibilities"   So to win this book all you need to do is to tell what your favorite Christmas song is as a comment. And if you are a follower leave a second comment. I will pick a winner on the 17th I know, you are thinking why another give away in two days, well this one I had signed up to do before I knew I would reach my goal of 50 followers and 10,000 page view yesterday. I sort of feel like Santa and you know what, I like it. So if you want another chance at winning a small wallhanging I'm offered as a giveaway, check out yesterday (Dec8th) post for details Thank you for coming by and I hope you would take a minute to see what I have been up to. Merry