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I’ve been sewing produce bags this summer, and today I’m going to give you the pattern and tutorial. If you do not sew, the ones I have made are available for purchase, just skip to the bottom of this post. These bags are great for taking to farmer’s markets and produce stands to hold my purchases. One big benefit of the mesh is it allows those pesky little gnats to escape so I don’t bring them home with the vegetables. You can hang the bags in your pantry to keep onions and potatoes as the mesh ...

Don’t you love a Farmer’s market? My favorite one in town is open for the season, and the bonus is that it isn’t far from the quilt show venue. If you come to the show, on your way home, stop by the Johnson Family Farms produce stand on the corner of Kanuga and Erkwood. Right behind the stand is a big field planted with all kinds of vegetables. Talk about fresh from the field!

They have a section with homemade food items, baked goods and local honey.

Heirloom tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, little grape tomatoes, and big beefsteak ...

So this spring I got myself a sewing room (more on that later!!).  But in the process of moving my stash, I realized how much I had hidden in the bowels of every closet of my home!  Time to streamline a bit.  So I took all my very favorite must-keep fabrics and put them on the shelves, which left me with multiple containers full of "second string" fabrics that I needed to do something with.  While I plan to destash some eventually, I decided the best way to get rid of it was to sew it up!  So, along with ...