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Place your vinyl main pattern pieces right-sides together. If you are using vinyl and want to add stiffness, add interfacing or fleece to your lining instead of your outer bag, since we really don’t want to mess with ironing this.
If you’re using regular fabric, adhere your fusible fleece or interfacing to the back side of the outer bag pieces. Or baste it if it’s not fusible.
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You can’t use pins, so find another way to hold your pieces together if necessary. Here, I’ve used quilt binding clips, which look like little barrettes but are not. You could use clothes pins or other types of clips, too.
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Sew your bag down the side seams and across the bottom. Right now, the square cutouts at the bottom corners are not sewn.
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This is tricky to photograph well. This is the bottom corner that we left open. You’re going to take your side seam and your bottom seam and meet them together. That corner where my thumb is will be one end of the new seamline. The other corner will be the other end. The two current seams will meet together in the center of the new seam. This is forming the square bottom of the bag.
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Does this help at all? That seam where my fingers is is the side seam of the bag. The bottom seam is directly underneath that, running parallel. The right end of the seam is the corner where my thumb was in the picture above.
Sew a half-inch seam across this opening.
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Here is where my bobbin messed up (mentioned above) several times. I tried several times before I fixed it, but it basically perforated my vinyl and it tore. So I had to fudge this seam and to the side of this spot.
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To make your pocket, Sew two of the suede pocket pieces together, with right sides together. Sew all the way around with a 3/8″ seam allowance, except for a turning hole at the bottom.
Turn your pocket right-side out through the hole and gently push out the corners. You may want to clip the corners before turning by cutting diagonally along them without clipping the stitches.
You can see the open hole at the bottom part of this picture. You’ll turn in that seam allowance and press. Top stitch along the top of the pocket close to the edge.
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Pin your pocket to one of your lining pieces. Sew down one side, across the bottom and up the other side. You’ll sew pretty close to the edge. You’ll also be catching that hole at the bottom when you do this, thereby closing it up.
Remember to add interfacing or fleece to the lining if you are using the vinyl outer bag. I decided to add fleece for support a little too late in the process, so it will magically appear in pictures later.
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Place your lining pieces right sides together and stitch down each side and across the bottom like you did for the outer bag, except you need to leave a turning hole in the lining for later. If you’re using vinyl, leave a large hole since this is a stiff material.
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Close up your corners as described above. |