Flour Sack Bread Bag with Vintage Crocheted Lace

UPDATE: I have two ONE Bread Bag left for sale in my Etsy shop. 

 

 

Every now and then the Mister and I go to Upper Canada Village and visit the flour mill and buy freshly milled flour. Nothing is better than their freshly milled whole wheat and white flour.  to be used for baking bread!  I saved several of the flour bags, not sure at first what I wanted to do with them, but I just KNEW I could re-purpose them.

I was looking at the bags and realized that they were the perfect size to store my homemade bread in.  All I needed to do was add a casing for a drawstring cord to close the top and it would be a perfect fit.

This is the flour sack after I emptied the flour (below).

As I was looking through my laces and buttons I found this beautiful, hand crocheted lace.  My grandmother used to crochet lace and apply to pillowcase edges.  It's beautiful and such fine handwork. 

Then my button collection began calling me wanting to be re-purposed on the bag too.  From the time I was a child and still now, I just love sifting through buttons, looking for just the right ones.

 

If I have lace and buttons, why not add a flower.  After all, it IS a FLOUR SACK so why not add a FLOWER.  So I made flowers from some linen scraps and center the flower with a large old button.

I toyed with a variety of closure ideas and settled on a simple drawstring cord that seemed to fit in with the lace.  And there you have it!  A bag to store freshly baked bread in.

In the French Boulangerie (bakeries that specialize in baking and selling bread) the bread is sold unwrapped.  Occasionally it will be wrapped in paper but it would be rare to see any plastic bags in sight.  Bread that will be eaten immediately or within a day or two keeps much better in a cloth bag than out on the counter.

And... I do not have a bread box.  Prior to making the bread bag you'd see my bread in a plastic bag on top of the microwave in a corner.  NOT attractive.  But this bag turned out so sweet that I'm no longer hiding my bread in a corner.

If I don't have bread to put into the bag I thought I could store my rolling pin in it.  Wouldn't it look sweet hanging on a hook in the kitchen and ready to roll out the next freshly made loaf of bread, pie dough or other goodies?

After finishing making my bread sack I decided to make some more and they are now listed in my Etsy shop for sale.

 

 

Until next time,

Cheers!

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