If you promise not to laugh...

... I'll show you my very first stitchery.

Ta da!



I've been decluttering for three years now, so I'm very much into "a practical purpose for everything, hence I didn't want to do anything for purely decorative purposes (I have enough of that already!).

This is a small, drawstring calico bag which I am going to use for - guess? - Yup! Storing mushrooms in the refrigerator.

I've been using brown paper bags up until now (plastic bags make the mushrooms sweat and go slimy), but they wear out after a couple of weeks in the crisper, so I was looking for a reusable alternative which would allow the 'shrooms to "breathe" but not dry out. It turns out that calico is great for this, and other vegies too, by the way.



My daughters' preschool are compelled by regulation to refrigerate lunches & morning teas and so had to introduce a lunch box ban, as 30 lunch boxes won't physically fit in their small refrigerator! They requested the kids use paper bags, but I thought reusable drawstring bags were a better option and I then discovered that I could buy them really cheaply in bulk on eBay for the same price as just buying the calico at retail prices, so I now have a stack in waiting to be used for various projects.

So, a few nights snatching moments for embroidery later, here is my bag!

And now my mushroom trays are finished producing & need to go in the compost bin.

Typical.

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** Edited to add: The bags are approximately 28cm x 20cm, or 8" by 11" **