Thank you, you are all so kind in your comments. I have been making bags as gifts every time we are invited somewhere, I tell my husband that we can put the wine in the bag I make, I think one cannot have enough shopping bags.

Your comment reminded me of our trip to UK in 1996 or 1997. We rented a car in London and took off. We decided we wanted to buy some apples and other fruit to snack on and stopped at a large food center and discovered one had to put a coin in a machine to get a shopping cart and opted not to pay for a cart as here in the USA carts provided for free. It limited what we could buy as we couldn't hold that many apples. Later someone told us that we would have gotten our money back upon return of the cart. We just laughed. Kay

Thank you, Maria, that is also my point, to help use less plastic or avoid it all together. My girlfriend is from Cologn but now lives in Berlin, so I hope she will like it. Are you also from Berlin? hugs, Mary

No, I live in the Darmstadt/Frankfurt area (Odenwald) but I do have a friend living close to Cologne and recently have visited her. We bought a lot of wool and were knitting and talking :-)

great idea!