Elaine has been making reuseable shopping bags from denim for quite some time. She takes them with her to WalMart and other stores. The looks she gets is quite amusing when the cashiers try to find the bar code to scan and then find out my wife made them to use.
She took some to sell when she went to the last craft festival and they didn't sell too well. To many lookie loos not enough spenders. Perhaps if enough places ban the plastic bags that will change. We can hope.
Joe