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to design How your own bag to attach a How lining

What Youll Need

yard of heavy woven 1/2 fabric like canvas or twill yard of lining 1/2 2 yards of 1 to 1-1/2 wide webbing from

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Create a great looking shoulder bag that matches your personality and holds all your important stuff! Pick a bright fabric or try a subtle denimits up to you.

Wrights Coats Dual Duty Plus All-Purpose thread Fabric marking pen Edge Stitching Foot

Before You Sew:

Print on your computers printer the patterns given here. Cut one rectangle body piece each from the heavy woven fabric and the lining fabric. Cut one flap piece each from the heavy woven fabric and the lining fabric. Cut one 54 length of the 1" to 1-1/2 wide webbing and cut one 14" length of webbing.

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Pin the bag flap pieces, right sides together. Stitch along the sides and around the end leaving the straight end open. Notch the curves, turn and press. Topstitch 1/4" from edge using your Edge Stitching Foot and adjusting the needle position. Place one bag piece on the table top, right side up. Center the open end of the flap on the right side of one narrow side of the bag piece. Pin the 14 strip of webbing 2" down from the edge covering the flaps raw edges. Sew on the webbing, making sure to catch the flap in your stitching. The flange on the Edge Stitching Foot will help you guide your stitching close to the edge of the webbing. With right sides together, fold the bag piece in half lengthwise and fingerpress the fold. Seam the sides with a 1/4 seam allowance. Fold the lining piece, right sides together, and crease in the same manner. Stitch the sides with a 1/4 seam allowance.

Box the bottom of both the bag and the lining pieces by flattening the corners and centering the side seam with the creased line on bottom. Stitch across the triangle 3 from the end. Trim to 1/4 seam allowance. Turn the outer bag body to the right side. Insert the bag lining, with the wrong side of the lining to the wrong side of the bag body. Match the side seams and turn in the top raw edge 1/2 on both the bag body and the lining and pin the edges together. Center the remaining webbing piece over the side seam on each side and so the raw ends are approximately 1 below and between the folded edges of the bag and the lining. Adjust the strap length at this time. Using your Edge Stitching Foot, topstitch 1/4 from the edge of the bag remembering to backstitch at the beginning and end of your stitching. Reinforce the stitching at the side seams where the strap is sewn to the bag. NOTE: To increase the stability or add extra shape to your bag, fuse a layer of medium- to heavy-weight fusible interfacing to the outer fabric. Treat this fused fabric as one piece and continue to make your bag as instructed above. This technique works particularly well on lightweight fabrics giving the finished bag more body and durability.

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Teresa Vasilchik, 17, from Lake Placid, Florida is no stranger to sewing. Having sewn since she was about 5 years-old, she now teaches kids how to sew at her moms store. She designed the Messenger Bag pattern because she couldnt find a bag large enough to carry all her stuff! Teresa and Shannon Mullen bagged it all up with the Messenger Bag and handy wallet.A little creativity and practicality were their inspiration in making these projects.

Wacky Wallet
Make a tri-fold wallet to match your Messenger Bag. Be creative with your fabric choices.

Before You Sew:

From the denim, cut two 10 x 4-1/2 pieces for the body, and one 2 x 4 piece, one 2-1/2 x 4 piece, one 3 x 4 piece and one 3-1/2 x 4 piece for the pockets. From the contrasting fabric, cut two 10 x 4 pieces; one 2 x 4 piece, one 2-1/2 x 4 piece and one 3 x 4 piece for the lining.

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What Youll Need

yard of denim fabric 1/4 1/4 yard of contrasting fabric Bias Tape Double-fold from Wrights dual Duty Plus All Coats Purpose thread marking pen Fabric Edge Stitching Foot Velcro brand SEW-ON tape Foot Edge/Joining Single-fold Bias Tape from Wrights Basting tape

On the 3-1/2 x 4 piece of denim fabric, wrap one 4 edge using the double-fold bias tape; pin. Select a decorative stitch, like the blanket stitch, and stitch the binding to the edge. Set this piece aside. To create the pockets, match one piece of denim with one contrasting fabric of the same size. With right sides together, sew the 2 x 4, 2-1/2 x 4, and the 3 x 4 pieces of denim and contrast fabrics with a 1/8" seam allowance. Press the seam then flip the fabrics to the right side and press again. To assemble your wallet pockets, layer the pieces, starting with the largest piece on the bottom, denim side up, matching the raw edges. Layer the next piece with the contrasting fabric up. Repeat layering with the smallest piece, denim side up, on top. Baste the layers together along the raw edges using the longest stitch length on your sewing machine.

Cut a 2" piece of Velcro brand SEW-ON tape. Center one section of the hook and loop tape on the bound piece 1/2" from the opposite edge from the binding, pin. Using your Edge/Joining Foot, sew the tape to the piece. Pin the 10 x 4 pieces of contrasting fabric, wrong sides together. Matching the raw edges, pin the bound pocket to the left end (make sure the hook and loop tape is right side up) and the layered pockets to the right end on the contrasting pieces. Baste along the long sides. Bind one long edge with the Single-fold Bias Tape using a decorative stitch of choice as you did before.

All About Denim Did you know that nearly 25% of all cotton produced winds up as denim fabric more than any other category.The average American wears their jeans four days per week. And amazingly, many of us have an average of eight pairs of jeans in our closets. In 1853, Levi Strauss sailed from New York City to San Francisco to help his sister in her dry-goods business. First selling tough canvas pants to the gold miners, the fabric soon changed to denim. A tailor, Jacob Davis, in Reno, Nevada, invented the riveted pocket designed to provide added durability. He and Strauss jointly filed a patent for the rivet. Soon the uniform of miners, cowboys, farmers and factory workers was waist overalls (pants) and blouses (jackets) made from denim fabric. And over the years, denim jeans quickly became hip crossing all boundaries and class of people. The classic jeans we are familiar with have embossed buttons and orange-threaded stitching.The doublecurve on the the back pocket has been used by Levi Strauss since the late 1800s. And to save thread during WWII rationing, the curved design was even painted on! Old, worn jeans offer the fabric for great recycled projects from bags to belts to quilts. Denim is timeless, durable and collectible even fetching prices up to $25,000.00 for a rare pair of Levis found in a old coal mine.Why there is even pain designed to resemble the look of denim! So rummage in your mothers scrap bag and find those old pieces of jeans. Refer to previous Sew Young, Sew Fun programs for lots of recycling ideas or come up with your own. Besides this project, check out program 612 in series 600 for a great serger jacket made from pieces of old jeans.

Pin the two 10 x 4-1/2 denim pieces, wrong sides together.. Center the remaining piece of Velcro brand SEW-ON tape on one narrow edge 2 from the end. Using your Edge/Joining Foot, stitch the tape to the denim through both layers.

With the pocket side up, layer the contrasting piece on top of the denim pieces matching the raw edges

on three sides. The contrasting piece will be 1/2 narrower than the denim piece. (Make sure the Velcro pieces are at opposite ends from each other.) Open out the double-fold bias tape. Match the raw edge of the single layer of tape with the raw edges of the wallet. Stitch with a straight stitch using the fold as your guide. Wrap the tape to cover the raw edges and folding at the corners to fit. Cut strips of basting tape and place between the bias tape and the wallet. Following the manufacturers instructions, press the tape to hold in place.

Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the sponsors that helped make Sew Young, Sew Fun possible.This show could never happen without the support of the sewing industry leaders who see the need to reach our next generation of sewers.

31000 Viking Parkway Westlake, OH 44145 www.husqvarnaviking.com www.whitesewing.com

P.O. Box 45801 Westlake, OH 44145 ww.pfaff.com

Coats and Clark 3430 Torrington Way, Suite, 301 Charlotte, NC 28277 ww.coatsandclark.com

Velcro USA Inc. 406 Brown Avenue Manchester, NH 03103 www.velcro.com

JoAnn Fabric & Crafts 5555 Darrow Rd. Hudson, OH 44236 www.joann.com
Thank you to the following companies for their contributions toward these projects: Hewlett Packard, Kunin Felt,Timeless Treasures, and Cranston Fabrics; and our models, Krista Panko, Lindsey Fransler and Grace Hemming for their help. The information is presented in good faith, but no warranty is given nor results guaranteed. Since the publisher has no control over the circumstances under which the instructions and products are applied, the publisher disclaims any liability for results. Copyright2004,VSM Sewing Inc. Sew Young, Sew Fun, Husqvarna,Viking,White, and Pfaff are registered trademarks. Coats & Clark, Jo-Ann, and Velcro are registered trademarks.

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