Make an Easy Bag Holder

 Hello Readers. It seems that I have a million plastic bags from the grocery stores. Maybe 2 million. They seem to multiply but I keep them because they are so useful. They make a great emergency lunch bag, wet laundry bag for travel, trash bag, water proof cover, dog poop picker-upper... The uses are endless. I wanted a nicer holder for all my bags. I also wanted something easy to use if I need to grab a bag quick. Let me show you what I made.

 This bag holder is cute and holds all my plastic shopping bags. It was super easy to make too.

 I found this dish towel at a thrift shop. I loved the Irish blessing it had on it immediately. I wanted to use it in my home in some way. Let's make it into something cute and useful. You will need a towel like this one (Similar here.), some elastic, and a small length of ribbon.  

  I wanted to sew elastic across the top of the towel and across the bottom of the towel. I used the white border as a guide for the placement for my elastic. The elastic will keep the plastic bags neatly inside. I want the plastic bags easy to access but not falling out on their own, that wouldn't be neat. I also wanted to add a little handle to hang it up in my utility room.

 

Then, I sewed the long sides of the towel together. I folded it in half lengthwise with the right sides together. I used white thread to match the white border of the towel. I used a straight stitch on my sewing machine and sewed the 2 side edges together. This will make the towel into a tube shape.

I added my ribbon handle at the back of the towel. I sewed it across the seam I had just sewn so it would be centered evenly in the back of this bag holder. This will be a handle so I can hang up my bag holder on a hook, cabinet handle, or even a door knob.

  Plastic bags are very light weight so this bag holder can hold all the bags I can stuff inside of it. I didn't need to worry about weight. Even a million plastic bags weigh almost nothing. The elastic gathers the top and bottom to hold the bags inside. It will be nice and neat.

 

 

This bag holder looks so much cuter than a plastic bag of plastic bags. The colorful towel is a nice touch in my laundry room. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.