New resolution: I'm gonna make shopping bags as gifts

Everyone is on the trend of using tote bags to avoid discarding more plastic bags into the environment. This is just great and I think is a great excuse to make bags for a great cause. So, my first recipient was my friend Marwan, whose birthday I missed whilst being in Spain.

Is a serious bag, discreet and not on-your-face. I had to find a way to make a bag masculine enough but still interesting. Hopefully I got it right...

Once I finished it, I packed it into a piece of fabric, Japanese style.