20111108 shoppingbag

Detail of one of the tiny shopping bags, and a caveat:<div><br></div><div>Make *sure* you protect your ironing board and your iron from the melting plastic. This, I did—but I used the wrong material to do so.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>I thought parchment paper would be good because it's slick and the little bags wouldn't stick to it. But it's a bit waxy (hence the slickness). So the melting plastic caused no problems but this coating on the paper gummed up both my ironing board and my iron!! Yikes! My mistake. Lesson I learned—use a <i>plain</i> piece of paper to protect the surfaces, even if this means having to change paper once or twice while doing such a volume of bags.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a fun, quick project, and a great re-use for those <i>really</i> cheap, cheesy, almost-see-through plastic bags that you'd otherwise throw away (good quality bags ironically look stiff and out-of-scale once they've been made mini).</div>