Ugly Tea Towels to Reusable bag

A few months ago I was wandering through my local Dollar Tree (one of my favorite stores!)  and stumbled upon some really fabulously ugly tea towels.

They called, no, screamed my name. I mean, who could pass up a pink tea towel with a strange soup print on it? I still can't get over how glorious and weird the print is. So there I was giggling to myself  in the middle of the aisle wondering what I could do with such a treasure. I bought 3. One I sent to my best friend, who was just as amused by its kitchyness, and the other two sat around for a while. I washed them.... and stared at them... and waited a few weeks for inspiration to hit me. those few weeks turned into months and then it hit me... a reuseable bag! Then I could strut my stuff at the grocery store with a little beauty made of odd soup print fabric.  I used another bag I had as a template, its basically two rectangles sewn together with the bottom corners squared up.

I added a piece of cardboard to the bottom for stability.