When we travel the easiest solution for packing shoes is a plastic
bag... however, we can make our own in quick, simple and economic. We need 50cm of
fabric; 10cm of felt and 1m of satin ribbon or organza.
Although the tutorial is
for a shoe bag, it may have different
uses, if we change the designs for a child we will then have one snack bag for
children.
So,
roll up your sleeves and get
down to the job.. Off we start step by
step with this musical shoe bag.
We cut 2 rectangles of 40cm x 30cm approx. and we cut all the
pieces from the stencil
We fix, with pins, the 5
strips that will form the stave for the music bar , we tack ( it is recommended to always tack if
you don't have much experience with the sewing machine) and
backstitch with the sewing
machine all along.
Then we add the notes, we tack and backstitch all around the
border.
Afterwards, we place the last piece of felt.
In the upper top corners (front right and back left of
the bag) we mark the buttonholes and we sew them with the sewing machine, according
to the distance indicated in the picture.
We can sew them by hand as per the stitches shown in the
picture.
We join the two
rectangles with a french seam. To do this we will place the right
sides of the fabric together, we tack the two laterals and the lower edge. We then backstitch the three sides at 0,5cm from the edge.
We turn the inside of the bag out (so the right sides of the fabric are on the outside), and backstitch (or sew with the machine) again at 7mm. around the three edges, this will give you an enclosed seam with no raw edges.
In the upper part we make a hem by folding the fabric 4,5cm and we
make another fold in the lower part of 0,5cm. We tack
We backstitch the lower
fold of the bag .
To introduce the ribbon, we put a safety pin in one end of the ribbon holding the other end tightly.
We pull the safety
pin through one buttonhole and we slip the ribbon through until we reach the other buttonhole where we will take the ribbon
out .
With simple steps we made this genuine, different and
useful shoe bag ... or holiday laundry bag ... or a sock
and tights bag .... or .... ;)
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