How to Make a Lined Drawstring Bag | Sewing Tutorial

today i'm going to show you how to make the line drawstring bag so this is the free tutorial size but it is also the everything size in my line drawstring bag pattern i'll have both of those the tutorial and the pattern linked in the description down below we're going to go through everything from cutting to finishing the bag but yeah just to give you an idea if you have not seen the tutorial it's a just a flat bottom drawstring bag pretty simple it's fully lined and we're also going to make our own ties so let's go ahead and get started this is what you'll need to sew the line drawstring bag you'll want a copy of the pattern or the tutorial handy you'll need your fabric a cutting mat and long ruler i also like to have on hand when i'm making this bag a 12 and a half inch and six and a half inch square ruler not necessary but they come in handy you'll want a rotary cutter snips seam ripper marking pen coordinating thread pins and a large safety pin i also like to use one inch masking tape too but that is optional beyond that you'll need a sewing machine that either has a quarter inch foot or you can easily set a quarter inch seam and you'll need an iron and an ironing board in this video i'll be making the everything size which is the same size as the free tutorial but the instructions and techniques that we use will apply to any of the sizes in the pattern so i've started by ironing all my fabrics i've also squared up one edge so i have a nice clean edge to start my cutting from so the pattern and the tutorial both utilize a method called sub cutting which means we're going to cut a strip from the fabric and then cut our two pieces down out of that strip so this is the fabric i'm using for my exterior main it is a one-way directional print which means it has a clear top and bottom and so if i follow the instructions for cutting my print will be cut correctly so i'm going to start by lining up my nice clean cut edge at zero on my cutting mat and i need to cut a nine inch by 21 inch strip so i have a fat quarter that's 21 inches i'm gonna line my ruler up at nine inches and i'm going to cut all the way down this is scrap and we don't need that so now i have two clean edges i'm gonna measure it just to see how much wiggle room i have okay it's a little bit over 22 inches that's great now i'm going to take that 12 and a half inch ruler and i'm going to use the ruler to make the rest of my measurements so what i want to do i want to start by getting rid of this selvage this edge is clean and this edge is clean so i can line my ruler i'm not using the mat to measure i can line my ruler right up on the strip clean up that edge oops clean up that edge okay so now i'm going to start cutting my pieces i'm going to flip this strip around just because i'm right-handed it's a little bit easier okay and now i need to cut a nine inch by ten and a half inch piece so this measurement is already nine inches so i need to cut ten and a half inches in this direction again i'm using the ruler i've lined it up at ten and a half and it's nine inches tall carefully make that cut and i've got my first exterior main piece and now i'm just going to do that again with the rest of the strip this little bit that is left over is just a scrap we don't need that in our final bag so there we go i have my two exterior main pieces all cut out and ready so now let's cut the accent so again i squared up this edge i'm gonna line it up at zero on my mat and i need to cut a four inch by 21 inch strip so i'm gonna line my ruler up at four inches on the mat okay this is scrap that i don't need i've got let's see i've got 22 inches so i have plenty of room i'm going to make a small cut here at the end just to clean up that edge again i'm using the 12 and a half inch ruler i'm not measuring on the mat so now i need to cut two four inch by ten and a half inch pieces so i'm going to line up this nice clean cut edge at 10 and a half and we've got our first exterior accent piece and now i will repeat that for the second piece that scrap and now we have our two accent pieces cut we're just going to repeat this same process for the lining i've got a fat quarter again i've already squared off this edge so i can line that up right against zero on my mat now we need to cut a 12 and a half inch strip by 21 inches okay so i'm lined up at 12 and a half this is scrap we don't need okay let's see what we have to work with yep we've got plenty of room it's a little over 22 inches with the selvage so let's clean up this cut edge again i'm going to use my 12 and a half inch ruler which is the perfect size for this job lining it up on my two clean edges throw away that extra all right so now i need to cut two 10 and a half inch by 12 and a half inch pieces oops so this is my 12 and a half and i'm gonna line this up at ten and a half okay all right we've got our first lining piece and now we'll do the same with what's left that scrap and now we have our two lining pieces cut last thing to cut is our ties i'm going to make ties for this bag but you're welcome to use twill or ribbon or paracord but i wanted to show you how to make ties too so i've got my tie fabric i've already cleaned up this edge this is a full little like fat eighth or i'm sorry it's a full eighth of a yard i'm gonna line up my clean edge at zero grab my long ruler and i'm gonna cut two two inch strips from this okay so there's my first one set that aside and now i'm just going to line this back up at zero and measure to two inches again okay so now we have our two strips i want to trim off these selvedges so that we can cut our ties i'm just using my ruler again not the mat and i'm so i'm cutting through both layers right now this strip now we need to trim these down to 32 inches so i'm just going to line this up at zero and cut at 32 so there's one strip and another strip at 32 inches and this is just leftover scrap so now we have both of our ties cut and with that we're done cutting the first step in putting together our bags is we need to lay all of our pieces out into one long line and we're able to do that because all of their pieces have one measurement in common and that's the width so for the exterior for the everything bag slash free tutorial size that is ten and a half inches so our exterior means ten and a half inches wide our exterior accents ten and a half inches wide and our lining pieces are 10 and a half inches wide now we're going to arrange all these pieces and they do need to be arranged in a specific order so that all the pieces are lined up right and also all of our directional prints are lined up right so that they're not upside down in our finished bag so we're going to start with a lining piece then add an exterior accent and this is the 10 and a half inch width measurement that we're lining those up together then we're gonna add an exterior main piece now if you're using a directional piece for your exterior accent you want the top of your print to be touching the lining because this is going to end up being the top edge of your bag when it's finished similarly if you're using a directional fabric like i am for the exterior main you want the top of your print to be touching the accent and the bottom of your print is going to be down here because this is going to be the bottom of your bag when we're finished so now that we have one half laid out we're going to lay the second half of the bag out basically as a mirror image so let's scoot this down so that we can get it all in the frame so we're going to start with an exterior main piece then an exterior accent piece and our remaining lining piece so again i've got my directional print for my exterior main i've got the top of the print touching the accent the bottom of the print is touching the other exterior main because this will be the bottom of the bag if i was using a directional accent piece i would have the top edge of the print towards the lining and the bottom of the print towards the exterior main so now i'm going to sew all five of these seams um i like to just start at one edge i'm just gonna flip this down so the right sides together and i'm gonna sew all right along this edge with a quarter inch seam you can pin it if you need to and then once i've got that sewn i'll just bring it right back over and then flip it down again to add the next piece and i'm going to continue doing that until all the pieces are sewn together and then we will move on to the next step once all of your pieces are sewn into one long strip you're going to want to press all of your seams so i've already done that i've got them all pressed open and now we're going to fold our strip in half so now when you kind of open it up a little bit you'll see the linings are touching the accents are touching and the exterior mains are touching so now we're going to pin along all three of our open sides so i just got my straight pins here and i like to start at uh the seams because i know i want those to be nice and lined up so i'll put a pin through that seam line these two up and then i'm going to do the same down here on this side of the bag and now i'm just going to add some pins throughout the rest of the bag i don't add a ton of pins but obviously feel free to use as many pins as you would like two over here now when i pin this lining end this is going to be the inside of the bottom of your bag so i like to go ahead and with my pins mark out the opening that i'm going to leave for turning i like to leave like on this size you know i'll maybe leave like about a three inch opening i don't measure anything i just know i want it to be in the center and i don't want it to be too big so now we have our piece all pinned and the next thing we need to do is mark an opening on both sides of the accent for the drawstring casing so let's go ahead and do that i like to use my little six and a half inch ruler here but any ruler would will do what we're going to do we're going to mark oh we want to leave a one inch opening in the center of the accent for our drawstring casing so i'm going to take my ruler and i'm going to measure from this seam to this seam so that's three and a half inches half of three and a half is one and three quarters so that's right here i'm going to mark that with a pin okay and now i'm going to measure half an inch on either side of the pin and make a mark so half an inch on that side and half an inch on that side so now when i go to sew i will leave this gap open so let's repeat that down here i've got three and a half inches the center of that is one and three quarters now i'm going to make a mark half an inch oops half an inch from that side of the pin and then half an inch from this side of the pin so now i have my drawstring casing opening on both sides i also marked my bottom opening in my lining for turning with pins and now i'm going to sew all the way around these three open sides not sewing between our marks so i'll sew from here to the first mark back stitch and cut my threads then i'll start again here back stitch sew all the way to the corner turn that corner sew to the edge of my opening back stitch i'll cut my threads and start sewing again here back stitch turn the corner come all the way down this side stop here and back stitch cut my threads i'll start again at this mark back stitch and sew all the way to the end and back stitch so i'm gonna do that and i'll bring it back and show you what it looks like all sewn up okay and here's what it looks like all sewn so i've sewn around all three sides leaving the two openings for the drawstring casing in my accent and and opening in the lining for turning next we are going to sew the gussets so this is what is going to give your bag a flat bottom and we're going to do this to both exterior corners and both interior corners so i'm going to start with the end with one of the inside corners and basically what we're going to do you want your hands on either side of this lining here and we're going to pull these two layers apart and you can see this triangle shape automatically wants to form so what we want to do is we want to be able to get this seam here and this seam here lined up with each other so the way that i like to do that is just get my thumb get it between my finger and my thumb and i can kind of feel i can rub them between my fingers and i can feel when they lock together so i'm gonna do that pretty far down so that i have enough room to work with so i can feel all the way up these two seams are lined up and so they're basically nestled and so this seam is facing this direction this seam is facing this direction and so when they meet in the middle they kind of nestle together so once i get those lined up how i want them i'm just going to lay it down flat on my mat nice and flat and what we're going to do now is we're going to measure a line across this corner and that measurement is going to be different for the different sizes but since we're making the tutorial size this line that we're going to measure is going to be three inches so the way to measure that and to double check that everything is lined up properly we're going to use a ruler that has a 45 degree angle line on it and what we're going to do is we're going to line up this angle line with this angle of our fabric okay and we're going to slide it up along that edge until it is three inches across this corner now you can double check again that everything is correct because this will be three inches and from the edge of the ruler to the very corner edge of this fabric will be half of that so in our case here it's one and a half inches so i know everything is square and lined up and i'm going to go ahead and mark my line across this corner okay and then before it gets too moved around i'm going to secure it with a couple of pins okay let's do a second one just just to reiterate okay so i've got this is my other lining corner i'm going to pull these two layers apart and i like to pull them down pretty far just so that i have plenty of room to get everything flat i'm going to put these seams between my two fingers and slide them over so they're nice and locked into place another thing you can do if you're nervous that it's not lined up is hold it up against a window it's pretty easy to see if your seams are not lined up together but that feels good so i'm going to lay it out flat okay then bring over my ruler and line up that 45 degree with this angled corner until we're at three inches across and i can double check my um measuring from the line i'm going to draw to the tip of that corner is one and a half inches half of three so that looks good i'm gonna mark my line and then secure that with a couple pins so i'm going to repeat that with both of my exterior corners so same thing i'll pull these apart i'll mark my line and then once i like to mark i like to um pin them and mark them all first and then what i'm going to do is just sew right on top of the line that we marked for each corner all right i have all of my corners sewn so both of my lining corners and both of my exterior corners and now what i want to do is i want to trim off some of this extra fabric that we don't need i'm gonna grab a bigger pair of scissors but your snips will work too so i want roughly a quarter of an inch left on this side of the seam but honestly i don't measure so i'm just going to kind of eyeball it but definitely you want to cut on this side of the seam not on this side otherwise you'll cut your seam off so cut that one cut that one our two lining corners all right so now we are ready to turn this bag right sides out so i'm going to use this opening in the lining that we left stick my hand in and i'm grabbing the bottom corner of the exterior and pulling it through that hole and now we basically just want to kind of fluff this to get it completely turned right side out all right and now we are ready to close up this opening in the lining so i'm just going to tuck those raw edges in and start securing that with some pins and i like to put a pin right at the start and end of the opening that way when i'm sewing it i know exactly where to start and stop so i'll put one on either end and then i usually just put like one in the middle and if you want you can press this to get it a little flatter so now i'm gonna take this over to my machine and i'm just gonna use like an eighth of an inch seam start about a quarter of an inch um before the opening starts sew all the way across and end it on the other side of that pin so i will go sew that up all right i have my opening all closed up so now it's time to push the open the lining into the exterior of the bag so i'm just going to pull these two layers apart and push the lining inside the bag and again a good shake kind of helps make that a little easier i like to get my fingers in both little kind of corner edges here in the lining to line up better with the exterior and same with on this side and then you just want to even out this top edge so that the seam is right at the very top nothing too fancy just giving it a nice finger press yeah that's looking pretty good okay so next we're gonna want to press this edge with an iron and then we will sew our drawstring casing okay we've got our top edge all nice and pressed i've kind of pressed the side a little bit while i press that so it's all nice and flat and now what we need to do is mark the drawstring casing opening so that we can sew all the way around the bag and create the casing so um i'm just sticking my finger in this little opening and i'm gonna use a marking pen to just make a real small little mark right at the top of that opening and then i'm going to do the same at the bottom nothing to major all right and now i'm going to do the same on the other side so i'm going to stick my finger in the opening mark the top and mark the bottom now if you'd like you can extend those lines all the way across the bag so just use a nice long ruler and line up the top of that mark with the mark on this side and draw a line all the way across there same with the bottom and then when you go to sew your casing you'll just sew right on top of the line but i'm going to show you another way it's my preferred method and that is what the one-inch masking tape is for so let's go over to the machine and i'll show you how i do that okay now we're going to sew our drawstring casings now my machine does not have a free arm which means i can't remove part of this machine base in order to fit a tube around it so i will have to turn this inside out and sew from the inside with the loop above but if you have a regular sewing machine that has a free arm you won't have to do that part um but either way go ahead and change your stitch length to whatever you would typically use for top stitching i set mine to three and what we want to do is put our needle right into this little mark that we made right at the top of our one of our casing openings so i've got a quarter inch foot on here by the way okay so i'm right on top of that mark now if you did mark your lines all the way along then you're good to go just get your machine you know get your needle lined up on the mark and sew all the way along on that line backstitching when you start finish all right so i've got excuse me i've got that all lined up i can double check by lowering my needle but yeah it looks pretty good and since i don't have any lines here marked to keep myself straight this is where the one-inch masking tape comes in and if you don't have one inch it's not a big deal you'll just have to move it to do the other side of the casing so i'm gonna get this you know i think that looks relatively straight i don't worry too too much about it but i'm going to lay this masking tape you can use washi tape whatever won't ruin your machine bed i'm lining this masking tape up right along this edge because i already have the foot lined up right where i want it and now i can use this tape as a guide when i sew my casing so i'm going to start stitching i'm going to back stitch and i'm going to sew all the way around and i'm just going to keep this top edge lined up as best as i can with this [Music] oh i'm getting a little bit off course but that's okay okay i'm gonna slow down as i meet my other end of my stitching and now i'm paying less attention to the masking tape and just more attention to that stitching the back stitch and i'm going to cut my threads and i'll actually go ahead and cut these tails too so they're not in our way okay so since i used one inch masking tape i can now just line up the at top edge of my bag right with the edge of the masking tape again i'm going to make sure my needle is going to hit right on that mark or pretty close to it and now i can start again and do this case this side of the casing so i'm going to back stitch i'm just going to keep everything nice and flat and use the edge of this tape to keep myself lined up now if you didn't have one inch masking tape you would just need to get yourself set up like you did before line up line it up the foot with the mark and then move your masking tape so that the edge of the masking tape is up against the top of your bag so pretty simple i'm gonna go ahead and finish this and then we're going to make some ties now it's time to uh make the ties i'm going to get my machine set up with a uh okay now it's time to make the ties what we want to first do is turn under the short edge on both sides of both strips and we're gonna just top stitch along that edge to secure it so i have my stitch length set to three but any top stitch stitch length that you're comfortable works fine and i'm just going to use a little short eighth of an inch seam allowance and sew right across this okay so again i'm gonna do that to the other end of this strip and then repeat for the other tie and next we'll press it now we're going to start pressing our ties so this will be the same for both ties but i'll just demonstrate on one so the first thing we're going to do is fold it in half lengthwise and i like to kind of fold it and press it as i go i'm using steam but certainly you don't have to do whatever you prefer in terms of pressing i'm just going to continue to press this entire strip okay so the whole thing has been pressed in half now we want to open it back up and fold both of these raw edges into the center crease that we just created careful not to burn yourself talking to you and me okay and you may choose to just do one side at a time that can be a little bit easier i'm going to live on the edge and do both at the same time i just kind of once you get it started it's really not so bad i kind of just do a few inches at a time it starts to kind of want to fold into the center on its own okay i'm just gonna continue on [Music] down the entire length of the tie watch out your ironing bird will get a little hot doing this it's a little bit tedious but it'll be worth it okay so i've got the whole thing with all the edges into the center and now i can fold it in half again and i've now closed up oops now i have all those raw edges hidden away in the middle just keep pressing until you get to the very end okay so now that's all pressed and ready to be sewn we'll do the exact same thing with the other tie and then we will sew this tie together okay now that we have our strips all pressed we need to close up this edge so we're gonna do that just by top stitching all along the whole length of the strip so let's go ahead and get started i still have my stitch length at three i'm gonna do a little eighth inch seam allowance and just go relatively slow to make sure i keep it on track [Applause] so [Applause] and you just want to slow down as you approach the end make sure it's not going to get wonky okay that's it all done so now we'll just repeat this for the other tie and then we can assemble our drawstring bag time for the final step so we have our drawstring bag is to the point where we have our casing sewn um and we are ready to insert our drawstrings into the casing this is where the big safety pin comes in so we're going to do one string at a time i like to put my safety pin through the tie twice that way i don't create a hole in my drawstring i'm going to start on one side and i'm going to insert the safety pin into the opening and start feeding it through so you kind of i kind of hold the bottom of the safety pin with this thumb and then push the excess fabric with this finger so when you get to the casing on the other side you're just going to kind of wiggle your way past it and keep going we're going to come back out the opening that we started in okay so we've made it all the way around we can pull it through and remove the safety pin i've got a little string there and now we just want to make sure and feel like it feels like the tie is in there nice and flat it's not twisted so we can even out our ties and then i like to just tie a little overhand knot to keep them secured together and that's one side done so now let's do the other side so again i'm gonna thread this onto my safety pin and now i'm going to start from the other opening same thing i'm just going to feed it right in the only the only thing that's really different is that there's already a string in there so oops i'm caught there we go there's already the first string in there so it's just there's a little bit more fabric in there it may be a little bit more difficult to go around but not too bad and then you just want to push your way past this opening and the string ends and continue all the way around back to the opening where you started come back out okay pull that out and we can remove our safety pin and again before we we tie that off i'm just gonna feel make sure nothing's twisted in there doesn't feel like it so that's good and so we will just even out those ends and tie a little knot and there we go that is it all done

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Length: 42min 40sec (2560 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 24 2020