#bag diy

[dognonsense]

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'lets turn this silver nightmare into a punk dream bag'

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[thepotatopixie]

Welcome back to Potato's "How To Bullshit Sewing"

First I showed my concept, now we're going to measure and cut out the pieces!

So I'm going to vocational college for graphic design, so I need a bag to hold a lot of books and papers. My largest paper pad I've used so far is this Bristol Board, so that's what were going go use to measure about how big to make it!

First you take your largest item and lay it on the fabric, and draw the shape of the bag around it, remembering to have extra material for seam allowance, and "opps I fucked up and now the edges are all frazzled"

(I forgot to mention that the canvas and other materials I have is doubled, from when they cut it off the bolt, so you only need the cut out the outer material once if that's the case for you.)

It's likely I'll trim this down a bit later, but its better to have more than you need, then less that you have to go back and get.

Next, stack the stuff you need in it and either take a leftover piece of material or paper and mark how wide the sides need to be. I had some leftover canvas that was about the width of the stuff I had, so I used it as a starting point.

From the bottom of the material I marked where the top of the lenght was, pretty much just made a line where I the top corner was.

Here I marked the width of the bag, but unfortunately I didn't have enough material to have one continuous line for the whole bag. But, since this material is folded, I can just mark about the middle of the bottom and have two halves.

Next, the Tazer Pocket I want to add to throw side.

The one on my messenger bag was fine, that one I top sewed the folded edges closer together so it wouldn't be completely flat on the side, if that makes sense.

But this time we're making side seams so it doesn't go inside the bag a bit, if that makes sense also.

Repeat the steps like with the Bristol board, giving plenty of seam allowance and trimming room. This scrap price was perfect to use, and I had enough to also use it for the side seam.

I folded that material hotdog style and that looked to be enough for the side seam, so it's good enough for me! If it messes up later it can be a snack pocket lol.

Next, I want to make a drawstring bag on the opposite side for trinkets or chapstick or whatever the hell, so I cut out a piece that was a little bigger than the side of the bag, which looking now I'll likely trim a bit of the lenght off later.

Sooooo, I forgot to take a picture of makeing the front flap for the bag. Since I used up the 10 image limit of the post, I'll make a drawing of how I made that later.

Thank you for reading! I know it's not a very comprehensive tutorial, but it's fun so oh well! Maybe in the future I'll make a better post about it.

[jenrenfieldhandmade]

For small things-saturday I made a little bag from scrap fabric from my dress!

Pattern is based on an Otome No Sewing bag pattern but much smaller.

[a-medley-of-things]

diy crossbody bag

made from scratch

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[jenrenfieldhandmade]

Some Updates for w-i-p wednesday:

First things first: I finished my serger dust cover!

If you'd like to make one yourself, here's the tutorial I used to make mine!

Now this isn't really a full-on tutorial as it skips some steps and doesn't explain everything in detail, for e.g. you should know how to make and sew double fold binding (I didn't!)

I also highly recommend using a fusible foam stabilizer! I've struggled quite a bit with the rather large front/top/back-piece which resulted in some gathers and puckering during quilting!

I have since started making my sewing machine dust cover (with fusible foam stabilizer this time) and the quilting turned out much neater:

The design follows the one of the serger dust cover: floral at the sides, green sewing theme at the front, back and top.

However with this one the outer layer and the lining are finished seperately and the seams will have to be topstitched in the end (instead of bound in binding) for the dust cover to keep its shape.

The tutorial for the sewing machine dust cover can be found here.

Again this isn't the best tutorial ever. I feel that some steps aren't well visible in the video but it's a good starting point!

I also recently invested in some special top stitching thread and did some trials for another quilted heart bag:

For the red heart bag I used regular thread and (non-fusible) quilt batting, the little squares are sewn with topstitching thread, left square with fusible batting, and right with foam stablilizer.

And what a difference the foam stabilizer makes!

Now I might have to tweak my original bag design to accommodate for the foam stabilizer. I also already dream of making a quilted pleather bag but I think neither my skill nor my machine can accomplish that....a girl can dream right?!

ALSO! I am still working on the 3rd part of the fabric covered boxes tutorial but the heat is making me lazy...so it might still be a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[wattacukorboholy]

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[passiondiyblog]

Zipper Bag https://www.passiondiy.com/zipper-bag/ Da Coats&Clark, una #borsa interamente realizzata con le #zip. Non è certo un lavoro che si conclude in cinque minuti, ma non richiede neanche troppo tempo, una volta capita la tecnica.

[passiondiyblog]

Zipper Bag https://www.passiondiy.com/zipper-bag/ Da Coats&Clark, una #borsa interamente realizzata con le #zip. Non è certo un lavoro che si conclude in cinque minuti, ma non richiede neanche troppo tempo, una volta capita la tecnica.