Project bag

Learn skills in attaching a zip when adding lining to a bag, adding zip cover tabs, English paper piecing and a lining

with invisible raw edges…

What you will need…Fabric from craftcotton

http://www.craftcotton.com/craft-fabrics/cotton-denim-1179.html

http://www.craftcotton.com/craft-fabrics/times-tables-cotton-print-1979.html

1 metre of each of the above fabric combo (you will have enough spare to make a small pencil case too if you wish)

2x 1” paper hexagon template 2 pieces of ribbon, 4” long each glue pen scissors sewing machine cutting mat rotary cutter iron 12” white zip 1 metre of Medium weight interfacing

Preparing your fabric

From your paper pattern, created on the fold; (1 square = 2 inch)

Totally height 14”, total length along the top 14”, total length along the bottom 18” – with 2” squares cut out from the two bottom corners of bag, this needs to be

done in all layers.

Cut 2 interfacing piecesCut 2 blue cotton fabric pieces

Cut 2 outer fabric piecesCut 2 pieces of the black fabric 2”x1” and sew in raw

edges along the two longer sidesUsing your 1” hexie, cut two hexagon hexies, using the glue pen fold over the edges to create nice neat/sharp

edges and top stitch them together (wrong sides facing, don’t forget to add a couple of pieces of short ribbon)

see photos below

Adding the zip and tabs

See photo above and below

Repeat process for the other side of zip

Next… Iron on your fusible medium weight interfacing to the

wrong side of the blue lining fabric. Sew right side together of the outer fabric, along the

bottom and down each side (not the corners) press seams open

Sew the interfaced lining, right sides together but leave a 3” gap along the bottom edge (this is to pull

your bag through at the end - the clever bit) press seams open

Pull your corners apart, like your opening a packet of crisps, lay flat and sew, then press seam open

Press and then pull the whole bag through the hole you left in the lining fabric, sew up the hole with a slip stitch and

press bag… fill with lunch and go 😊

Or fill it with your bits for school/college

Its even big enough to carry your fabrics threads and bits for your next project, or if your off to your next sewing

class, or round a friends to sew in company