Supplies:
Fabric
Sewing Machine
Scissors
Cord or Ribbon
Iron
Instructions:
Cut your fabric. You can make these
bags any size that you would like, but if you want to make your life really
easy, just make them the width of your fabric and then you will only have to
sew one side seam.
After you have cut your fabric,
measure down 1″ on both pieces near where you will sew one of your side seams.
Mark with a fabric marking pen.
Turn the fabric so that the right
sides are together. In the picture above, the wrong sides are together so turn
them the opposite direction. Sew the bottom and one side seam all the way up
until your 1″ marking. Press the seams open. If you are doing a smaller bag
with two side seams, sew both of them, but you only need to leave the top 1″
open on one of the side seams.
Fold over the top 1″ towards the
wrong side of the fabric and press to form a casing. As you can see, I serged
the edges of my fabric for my bags, but that is completely optional…….I just
like how neat and tidy it makes the edges.
Sew the casing by stitching close to
the raw edge of the fabric that you’ve turned over to the wrong side of the
fabric. Sew all the way around the top.
You will have a little opening in
the side seam to thread your ribbon or cord because of the 1″ we left open when
sewing the side seam earlier. Thread your cord or ribbon using a bodkin or
safety pin. Make the cord as long or as short as you would like. I used
spaghetti bias as my cord since I had a lot of that on hand from other sewing
projects, but you can use anything you would like.
