I feel more than a little guilty every time an Amazon package comes to our house. I save them but my carbon footprint build up was beginning to look like Bigfoot. So I decided to try making a market bag using two or three sewn together. They were pretty easy to sew. The main problem was fitting them into the throat of my machine once I'd sewn two together.
I used a simple market bag tutorial photo to sew the bottom gussets. Here's the link to my pin of my Pinterest board Bags, Purses and Totes. https://pin.it/jms7a4j3hoefve
I painted the background orange with poster paint and the designs with craft acrylics. The handle is canvas webbing. You can see the Amazon logo a bit through the orange paint but I like that since it informs the person looking at it how it's made.
The darned thing is holding up! I've used it for the farmer's market, the grocery store and a recent sewing retreat. The paint is not cracking, the seams are holding and I'm pretty pleased.
I think it's the first of many. I'm going to try patching some fabric on the next version.
You outta give it a try!!
