Insulated Shopping Bag

I just added pictures of the finished tote here:

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"I learned a valuable lesson..." :-}

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BEI Design
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Gorgeous!!! Nice coverup, too. It's a shame they use that cheap "fabric" on these bags.

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Pogonip

Really great looking!

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Alice in PA

Thanks! I bought 12 of those bags, they'll make great (cheap) gifts.

Yeah, it's not real "fabric" as we understand the term. It is "non-woven 100% Polypropylene". I have several reusable shopping bags purchased from the local grocery store, they all seem to be made of similar stuff. It's probably quite durable, as long as you don't set it too near a heat source. ;-}

I was not at all sure how it would take to machine embroidery, but I used a fusible cut-away stabilizer and it was fine. My problem came about when I decided to leave the excess stabilizer in place, and press it down: the tip of the iron went off the stabilizer and melted the polypropylene.

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BEI Design

Thanks!

I'm already thinking of what I can do to the rest of them for more gifts. I'm not sure taking them apart for embroidery is cost-effective.

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BEI Design

Thanks for the tip, Bev. I've one of those on the project list. Yours is really something to be proud of.

Alex

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Alex Corvinus

You're welcome, Al. ;->

Thanks. Once the design is digitized, I like to put in more than one item. I may try something other than embroidery for the others, taking this one apart in order to hoop it was a bit more than I anticipated. They are nicely made, I'm going to keep at least one for myself.

You began posting "here" just recently if I'm not mistaken. How about writing a short introduction. What else do you do besides machine embroidery?

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BEI Design

I'm so impressed. Even the tiny letters on the URL are perfectly executed and easy to read. I would buy one in a minute. Way to go!

Pora

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wurstergirl

Besides, it's not a fun job!! Could you embroider on fabric and then add it to the front as a pocket?

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Alice in PA

Um, I did that, but not in this NG, silly me. Someone here recommended I look at r.c.t.n, which I did, and did the intro dog & pony show there.

I'm a 70 year old retiree, out of the healthcare field, who spends most of his time cooking and losing his a$$ in the stock market. I love to cook, and recently came into a Brother XR7700 and an old Bernina 930, which weighs about 450,200 pounds. Both are in mint condition. Ex-MIL (gone to the big fabric shop in the sky) left me the Bernina and a bunch of her swatch stash, with misc. stuff. Why, I don't know.

Anyway, my interest in in Hungarian traditional embroidery, including Czech, Slovak and such. I've started building my library, but am absolutely a beginner. I am currently trying to do a little hand needlework, and it makes me humble, trying to get those stitches even.

That's about it. Nothing special. Except that I'm unabashedly male. Male lions don't hunt. Some human males sew (see the sig).

Alex, doing minestrone a la contadina today.

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Gender Roles are getting Blurry: Hannibal Lecter cooks, Jame Gumb sews, and Clarice Starling is a cop!

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Alex Corvinus

Ha. I've done brake jobs on two cars I've owned. Tune-ups, before computers and electronics took over cars. Built a chair, after the obligatory cutting board, of course. Was a cop. Am a lousy cook, horrible housekeeper, crummy mother. I sew and knit. And I'm older than you.

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Pogonip

Glad you have survived. Sometimes I th Are you available for marriage? A cop? You know how to shoot. Lousy cook? I can take care of that. Horrible housekeeper.... wait, I already have one of those.

Alex, hitting ()

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Alex Corvinus

Sympathetic hugs. At one time, I thought I could live to 90 without running out of funds, now I may have to aim lower. ;-}

Sounds to me like she knew exactly the right person to leave her stuff to.

Oh! Now I remember you, I failed to connect you to those previous messages.

Some human females have been doing "male stuff" for a very long time. I grew up pumping gas in my father's service stations. Also changing tires, changing oil, etc. I don't apologize for those skills. ;->

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BEI Design

I thought about doing that, but it would be a struggle to sew a pocket (or appliqué) to the outer fabric only, and I want to avoid piercing the inner "insulated" layers. I may take up fabric paint. Or puffy paint! Remember that? I'm sure I still have several bottles of that stuff laying around.

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BEI Design

Drum. When I was do>

My husband and your wife would probably complain anyway.

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Pogonip

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