Saving our planet: making a pouch for produce bags

I have found it useful to have a small pouch in which to carry the produce bags, to keep them contained and clean.

I cut a piece, 31cm x 17cm, in fabric that matched the casings of the produce bags, and then hemmed both ends of the short sides (folding the fabric over 1 cm twice).

Then I marked the centres of each short end with a pin ....

and placed two sides of a snap separately  on each end (checking to see that it will join together when overlapping on the right side of the fabric). I used a tool that I have not been happy with (it requires a lot of force and too much force tends to distort the hole for the top of the snap to go into, making it impossible to close). I have since ordered another tool and snaps from Snaps Australia, as I believe these will be easier to use, and these can be purchased on line from:

https://www.snapsaustralia.com.au/

Next I closed the snap and turned the pouch inside out, lined up the sides so that the snap was in the middle of the pouch and sewed seams on both sides, over locking them as well for neatness.

Finally, I opened the snap and turned the pouch back to the right side.

I rolled the produce bags up and found that 3 will fit nicely into the pouch.

 Remember: If you don't fear failure, it frees you up. (Anon)