A friend recently brought me a charm pack of shweshwe fabric. You can read about it here if you’re not familiar with it. I was especially interested because I have a blogging friend in South Africa, where shweshwe fabric comes from. Most of the African fabrics we get here are from other areas of that continent.

After considering for a while, I decided to make tote bags for both of us.

This is a modified version of the Charm Party Tote by Penny Sturges. That pattern may still be available on Etsy, but Noodlehead has lots of good bag patterns and I mostly use hers now.

I used foam batting, which was an oddity to me when I first discovered it, but it works really well in bags.

Do we need to go shopping now that we have tote bags?