Project Bag Tutorial - Zippy Bags & Happy Zippers!!

[Music] [Music] [Music] good afternoon everyone today is october 15 2021 and today i'm super excited i know i always say i'm super excited but i am more than excited so i'm super excited that i'm going to be filming my zippy bags tutorial so for those of you who may not know i have a new panel that has just come out okay here's kind of what the top of the panel looks like called zippy bags and this is on decorator weight fabric so i'm just going to kind of i'll show you these individually but i just kind of want to show you what what it looks like okay so you have eight bags on each panel four large and four small okay and then you have some tags that i did for you here move those back and forth you can see but that's what the panel looks like so this is decorator weight this is what the whole i copied this off on a piece of paper so i could show you this is what the entire panel kind of shrunk up looks like so you can kind of see this is how it's printed on the whole thing so here's the four large bags this is the front and this is what goes on the back of the bag front back front back front back and then here's the four small bags and then here's the tags here's the title of the panel zippy bags by lori hold of b and my bonnet and then here i've got very simple step-by-step instructions on how to make these bags unlined you know just how they are how you just cut them out and then here's some little instructions on how to do the tags all right it also says here that lori has eight zippers happy zippers that coordinate with these bags so i'll show you those you can kind of see a peek of them right here but right here where you cut these apart i placed the zipper in the panel with the color that i have for each bag that coordinates so of course you don't have to use that color with each bag they they match everything in all of the bags so you can move the zippers around if you wanted but i just wanted to give you a starting point of where to put those zippers here's the zippers okay they are 16 inch zippers and they have double pulls and i love that i love love love that there's eight of them in a package and they're kind of like well i shouldn't say sewn but they're divided in between like this so you can see all of them and then you can just cut out the one that you want to use by cutting that packaging apart i'm super excited about these you'll see why i love the double pole so much and the different uses that i have for those so that's the zippers i wanted to tell you that i designed these bags at the same time that i designed the next six in my collection of my happy place so for those of you who may not know i did a tutorial when my first six in the collection came out about making your own you know diy ironing boards so here's my small ones here so these are the first six prints okay and this is decorator weight they're 100 cotton it comes wider than normal quilting fabric so you can use this to cover your chairs make curtains you know decorate things with so there's the original that are still available we're not you know discontinuing these or anything i just did six more in addition so i've got this one this one with the pink little pins this tomato pin cushion one this one with all of the text all of the sewing text and of course by popular demand i was so excited about this that people wanted to more vintage ladies and so this time i did them with the blue background with the aqua and then i've got this awesome red print so that's that's what um these bags are styled after and styled with although i did use some of my stitch fabric collection to kind of go here and there in it as well um the design meaning but this is all on decorator weight that's what it looks like i'll show these to you individually in a minute this is where what they look like when you cut them out of the panel so here's the tags and i'll be showing you how to make those i've cut the instructions out here's the here's what the bags look like okay when you cut them apart this is like real size for the small bag okay and so here's i've got here in this tin i've got the four small bags and then i'll just show you what one of the large bags looks like about size wise here okay and you can see here that the daisy colored zipper right here is what i've used for this bag then i did write down the sizes so you could see that the small bag finishes at about eight and a half by nine and the large bag finishes at about 11 and a half by 13 and a half and of course depending on if you're doing them unlined or adding batting and lining and quilting them which is what i'm going to be showing you how to do today you know that might they might be slightly smaller i use quarter inch seam allowances so you know that's just an approximation but they're plenty plenty um big or plenty small enough to be able to put you know your projects in so i'm going to keep this out because i'm going to show you how i'm going to show you how i'm making one of the small bags today i'm going to be showing you how to make this one both of the small bags and the large bags are made exactly the same way i'm just choosing to show you how to do a small bag because it just fits easier in the screen as i'm doing things so but um i'll talk about that in a second show you how i cut that up and get ready but this is what each bag looks like finished okay cass i need you to tell me if that's centered okay perfect so i added one of my little spool charms on this one okay that's the back for that and i used my stitch fabric collection and i think one be backgrounds to line so i have batting and all of these this is what i used for this particular bag to line with now when you have these double zippers look how kind of fun this is you can just have them in one tab and then you can leave this to open this way back and forth right and just leave that there to hang your little charm on if you're left-handed or right-handed then you can you know do it the opposite way but what if you are sewing or storing i should say something you know that you don't want your little ones to easily get into what about if you loop these and put your little charm in there it's almost like a little lock okay i'm trying to do this far away so i can't see the lobster claw open there we go so i clipped them both in there i mean that's just a little extra little bonus so you cannot open these zippers until you take this charm out so that might be kind of fun for you know who knows why you need to have security reasons you know we all have our own reasons but anyways so there's that bag there is this one right here and i put my red spool charm on this one this is the happiness is handmade and this is what you get on the panel here this is the sea glass this is the back for it this is one of the tags you can use this so let me talk about these you can use these little tags to put them all on a big ring if you want to keep them together or they're just for looks or you can grab them to carry you know you can hook things on them it's just they're just fun i've always just put little what i call tags in my bags so here's this one and i kind of designed it with crochet in mind and i put one of cassidy's key chains that she made out of my chunky thread and yes she's done a tutorial here on my channel on how to make those and so of course i put the little the little skein tag in that that's what the back looks like that's my crochet print and then inside let me open that so i can show you what i lined this with that's the one i did with my b backgrounds or b cross stitch it's my b cross stitch print but this one's within the beak background collection as well okay so there's that one there's this cute little pink one and then cash you want to hand me those little so this is that little um flower tutorial the crochet flower tutorial that i showed you how to make out of my my chunky thread this is what my chunky thread looks like okay just grab that off my yarn wall and um then i've been doing covered buttons i gave you a couple tutorials on how to do covered buttons so you can do them in several sizes and that's fun to put there in the bag and how i put that in was i just used can you see that quilting pin quilter's pen which is what i call them or bendy pins whatever you want to call them but they have that little bend in there that you use for quilt basting and all i do is i just put that in there and because there's a shank on the back of the button i can just put that pin in there and put the button right in the middle of the crocheted flower like this so you know there's no sewing together or anything like that you just grab what you want and because of the shank is there you just put it on the bag anywhere you want and put that pin in the back then you can remove it and you know move it around or do whatever you need to do so that's just you know i always have to embellish my bags with charms and flowers and you know things like that i really like the texture that the chunky thread adds and looks of that so i used this stitch print to line this bag and um that's what the back looks like a little vintage ladies all right so there's that one and there's this one i also did my other thread spool which is red thread oh wait i showed you that one okay i showed you all of them right did i show you the back of that one that's what i didn't show that's the quilter's text on the back of that one i did not show you the inside that's what i didn't show you okay that's what i lined that one in this is also from stitch all of these inside linings again are from stitch i like how they all go together perfectly so those are the small bags and they measure eight and a half by nine approximately this is one of my large bags finished okay hopefully that's centered good this is so it's about 11 and a half inches tall by 13 inches wide so they're plenty large enough to put a book in here let me grab this this is uh this is my new crafting paper pad okay but these are eight and a half by eleven which is a standard paper size so that kind of maybe gives you an idea of what fits in there but my stitch one as well just to show you both of those are out i'm gonna be using these with my planner and for binders and things like that they've both got really fun clip art in them while i have them out i guess i might as well show you right so there's the clip art and look at this as little button cards right here it's on a nice thick paper so you can actually take um my cute little buttons let me grab a little jar hang on okay off the top of the shelf but wouldn't it be cute to take these little button cards and then sew my cute little buttons here right where there's an x you know for decoration or for a little gift or just to tuck in your little um bowls with your cross stitch and stuff like that as designed so that's that's pretty fun and okay now i got interrupted so i couldn't remember if i showed you the clip art on the stitch one but look at all of that you can do i'm going to be making note cards with this tags and using it to use in my planner and you know i'll be showing you more about that in another video or on my blog whichever or probably those okay back to the bags which is why we're here so this one is the happiness is a full bobbin i used one of my vintage ladies for the charms here and on the back is the red decorator print and let me undo this charm so i can show you i used my stitches in the hush hush collection for the lining in that one i thought that was perfect okay and i used the little bobbin tag because this says happiness is a full bobbin okay and so there's that orange one this is the other large one that has hexis on it so of course i use my little b tag because it looks like honeycomb and my stitch charm her keychain this is what the back looks like my stitched flower in alpine and alpine or leaf i can't remember which color that was but either one and then this is what i used to line that with this is my hexi print from my stitch collection so i thought that was perfect to line this this bag with that there's four of those in different colors in the print so you could choose any of those and then this one i've got my other vintage lady charm on here this is the one that was modeled after my mom this looks just like my mom did when i was growing up and her hair style is just the same so that's the front that's the back this print is called grandma's couch because this looks just like my grandma's couch so i designed that to kind of look like her sofa and inside i used my little cross stitch print from my stitch collection and i used my tomato pin cushion tag on that one that's fun and then this one is my tomato pen cushion with another vintage lady with the sewing machine tag and that's what the back of that looks like and i lined it with my text print there all right so that's what the bags look like finished all eight of them and i'm going to be showing you how to make this bag and so let me grab that stuff and i'll be right back okeydoke alright so here's the bag that's just cut from the panel i just cut the bags apart and this is what it looks like so i'm going to show you how i prepare and cut this up individually and so what i do is the first thing i'm going to do is cut this apart right here on this stitched line so this is the back of the bag this is the front of the bag and this is the top front of the bag so you know you can just do this with a pair of scissors or grab your rotary okay and when i cut that apart i'm going to i'm going to end up cutting on this dash line when i'm finished with the quilting and the lining so i want to cut it out just a little bit past it so it doesn't have to be an exact measurement but i just kind of lay my ruler on there and cut so it's like i don't know whatever you want to call an eighth of an inch or a very scant quarter of an inch it doesn't have to be way way far past it whoops i guess i need a new blade on that or i need to press harder okay so and that's all i do is i just go around on the back let me try this one more time right there press a little bit harder and so that's that's the backing piece and set that aside and then while these two are together i'm going to go ahead and do the same thing because i'm going to do something a little bit different when i cut this apart to do the zipper so i'm just going to go ahead and do a little bit past the marked stitches on that all the way around sorry if this is a little boring for you to watch me cut but i wanted to actually show you each step that i do along the way because i know a lot of you are a little bit nervous about making bags if you've never made them before but i want to show you how really easy it is to make these this is the same tutorial that i've done on my blog and at my workshops over and over this is the same process of how i make my bags and so i just wanted to put them on a panel so that you know we could make them that way and they would be pre-printed for you and even make it a little bit easier okay so between here this is the cloud zipper so i'm going to be cutting it this is cloud right here so i'll be cutting that out and um in the meantime the first thing i'm going to do is i want to cut from this line to this line instead of just cutting this in between and leaving it i want to leave a quarter inch seam allowance okay so i'm going to place my ruler on the quarter inch dotted line here from this line right here and cut past one quarter inch from that line okay so that's quarter inch these i didn't really measure whatever it's you know just a little bit bigger but this is an actual quarter inch here and i'll just turn that around and do the same thing for that okay all right so now all my pieces are ready for cutting my front pieces and for my lining i chose this closet i chose this print right here for the lining on this one this is from stitch so what i've done this is 11 inches wide and i usually just cut an 11 inch wide by width of fabric for the small bags and then i can just cut the lining out of it you'll have this much left over because obviously that's just you know what i have prepared so this is what i have left over of that 11 inch strip but so i guess you'll be needing like a third yard of fabric for lining for the small bags and so what i did is i cut a piece of batting and a piece of lining to go with every piece so here's my batting i'm using for this one just because it's left over cut off from a quilt that's what i do i just use scrap batting it's thin batting it's 80 20 you know or 100 cotton warm and natural whatever just so that it's thin so what i've done for this piece right here i always cut the lining let me turn it that way you can see it better about i don't know three quarters of an inch to maybe an inch larger okay and then i will cut then the piece and then i'll cut a piece of batting the same size all right so those that's for the top and then here's the same thing that i got going on here see the lining is just this much bigger now the reason i am doing that bigger is because when i'm quilting say that's got batting i didn't i did not press this i'll show you why you could use um some fusible you know peel on batting if you wanted to but i like to put my zipper in first before i use the batting to take that batting bulk away from the zipper and i'll show you how i do that so the reason i do it larger is when you're quilting or doing anything with layered fabric then you know it kind of will bunch up the quilting will take up some of the area and make your fabric smaller so i just cut it larger every time i quilt anything and then i can trim it down you know to this size after i after i need to so so that's what we got going on there so i've got lining you can put it however which way you want it as long as it's bigger all the way around so i've got the lining i've got my tags here i've got my zippers i'm going to use the cloud one for this one or you could you know use any any color that you wanted but for the packaging maybe i'll just cut that hand and pull that zipper out okay now the zippers are all um 16 inch zippers because you trim them down after so they're plenty big for the small bag so you can see how wide that is as compared to the width of the small bag but you can see that it's plenty wide for the large bags as well to trim that down after okay so that's why i chose to do 16 inch zippers so that you can use them for anything that size but then trim them down all right so i'm going to take that over to the machine got that i'm going to use that tag right there and let's go over there and i'll show you how to put it together okay so i've got everything i need here but before i forget i want to show you how to sew these tags so we're going to do this the old-fashioned way i'm using a safety pin to turn these and so what you do is you cut it out like this right on the dotted line and they look like this okay and just to show you what it's going to end up looking like again as a reminder this is what it looks like okay after you've sewn it in and you can place these anywhere in the bag you can put them here over here down on the bottom or leave them off or put them at the top or whatever you want to do so so what i do is i just put right sides together and then i just run it through my machine you do definitely want to back stitch when you start and backstitch when you stop and you can do a quarter inch seam allowance and i prepared a bunch of these with my leftover batting when i was sewing these bags so that i could run them through now i forgot to mention i'm using my bernina today for this instead of my feather weight and the reason i'm using my bernina is because i want to use a walking foot because whenever i am quilting anything or even if that was just lined and not quilted then i would still want to use a walking foot because i'm sewing layers several layers of fabrics together and what a walking foot does if you don't know is you know how your sewing machine will have feed dogs down here that feed your fabric through well a walking foot has feed dogs inside the walking foot as well and so it feeds your fabric and your batting your top and your batting in your bottom all at the same time and so there's no shifting and it's just really nice i use it whenever i'm doing thicker fabrics or layers of fabric okay so now i've got this sewn like that backstitched on both sides and this is how my mom always taught me to when we were making like waistline encased elastics or whatever like that and this is just as easy because it's a shorter strip um you can use these hemostats if you want to you can use like there's all kinds of turning tools out there but i find this is just fast and easy sometimes the old-fashioned way is just as easy so i pin this into the seam allowance so that it's strong and then i just kind of open that and make the head of the pin go inside and then i just thread this through so this will just be you know super easy as you know because it's so short but when you're doing a waistline for a skirt or anything like that it always takes a little bit longer but because i pinned that into the seam allowance i can just kind of yank on that and turn it like that okay i've got that turned inside out and i can remove the pin so i always keep pins of all sizes in my little drawer here okay so then i just bring it over here to the iron and i kind of roll it like this where my seam allowance was so that i want that all on the bottom bring it over and then i want to just get those wrinkles out and press it nice like that okay and then i'll fold it in half this way so that you can see the designs on both sides and then you've got your raw edge here and what i do is just barely like an eighth of an inch and i don't even backstitch i just run it through just to kind of hold that together and then that's ready to go so i'm just going to be using these scraps of fabric and batting together to run through in between steps so i'm not using a whole bunch of thread it's not even just the wasting of the thread it's just like threads everywhere and the time it takes to you know pull it out i just prefer to always use these little um thread savers in between so um so there's tag there okay and i just do them all the same way i'm just going to set that one aside to use for this bag so what i'm going to do with this is i'm going to start with the top pieces i'm not going to need the batting right now so i'm going to set this aside okay all i'm going to be using is this lining fabric which i'll need right side up and this top piece with right side down now this is the quarter inch seam part okay that that i trimmed and i want that towards towards the top i'm going to take my zipper i'll just zip this all the way down there so i'm just working with this top right now now i'm going to now you can pan if you want but you know me i'm not really a pinner so and this way the pins won't get in the way you can kind of see what i'm doing but i will start sewing on this after lining this edge right here up with that i'm going to start sewing on the bernina there's a little mark right here that's a quarter inch so i'm just going to use that as my guide so i'll start sewing till i get into the fabric just a little bit i'm also going to put my needle down position so we'll always stop when it's down and because this fabric is bigger i know i don't have to line this edge up here i have a little bit of room here so i'm going to now add this in and so i have all three of these edges with the edge of the zipper like this okay and once i start sewing like this and i'm using my quarter inch seam allowance or a little bit larger because i want to be sure that i'm sewing right on this line or passed into it so that this white doesn't stick out so that white you want that encased within your seam allowance and then i just you know i don't worry about pinning like i say i just hold it as i go along because i don't care if it's matched up here yet i just match it up when i get to that point okay i'm just using a regular stitch length just a regular straight stitch now i didn't backstitch at the beginning and it really doesn't matter but i may just put a few here okay and so now i've got that and what i'll do is just kind of turn it this way and sew off on the corner i'm not worried about these being here yet this is nice they're just kind of hooked on and i'm just leaving them off to the side here so that they're not in the way so now this is what this looks like okay right sides are together on one side of the zipper then i'm going to take it over to the iron like this and press them okay so i usually start with the back piece but it doesn't really matter which one you start with and i just press it away from that zipper you can feel with your finger i just don't want it folded up here i want it you know right um away from the zipper just how i top stitched it and then i'll turn it that way and it may be easier to turn it this way so that you can i'm going to finger press this first just so that i know i'm not going to have a little pleat in there and then go ahead and just give that a quick press okay now sorry about the garage door opening all right so now at this point this is where i'm going to take this piece of batting and i want to make sure i have a straight line cut on my batting on at least one side just from this scrap and i'm going to unfold this and i'm going to set it here all the way up to the top now the reason i add this batting now instead of before is i don't want to have to fold the batting over and to put on the zipper like that this is just a faster way to do the lining in the front at the same time so i do that you can grab a few pins if you want if you feel like that's going to shift you know i'll just put two or three pins in or again i just usually hold it into place now i'm going to come back over here and i'm going to top stitch right here so that all three three of these layers are top stitched so this i'll just start right there and when i top stitch i usually just um line this inside of my walking foot up with the edge of this and it ends up being about an eighth of an inch you can backstitch if you want and i just make sure that it runs all the way through lining up with that there's kind of a lip there because of the layers and that helps keep it straight this is usually why i don't pin because i just kind of think they get in the way but as i'm doing this i'm kind of pulling making sure they're pulled apart and just making sure the batting is all up in there like that all right so now there's this piece right here and i'm not going to do anything with this piece yet because now i want to put this is the top piece now i want to be able to do the same thing with this piece going on the other side of the zipper and then i'll take the lining and leave out leave out the batting at this point now at this when you if you're making this bag with just a lining like you could use the other decorator weight prints to use just the lining so that you have two decorator weights without the batting you can do that too i would just you would just eliminate the step of putting batting in between but this is how you would do it and so i'm just going to start like this by lining up my backing about the same size as this right i'm going to start that there so i'll just line that up about the same i'll just start sewing into my zipper because it doesn't really matter that's going to end up being trimmed off so you can see my lining under there okay right side up and then this you want to make sure that you don't do this upside down like this because um when you flip it over you want your sewing machine right to be right side up so this is how it's going to go with your quarter inch that you trimmed up here this will help remind you because this is the stitching where you cut apart for the back of the bag so what i'm going to do here now this is important is see where this stitches are here this black stitches i want this black stitch to line up with this and so i'll just set that on the zipper so that this is the same amount of trimming so that that's going to be lined up so before i sew i've got that there i've got that there you could use wonder clips if you want to whatever you have to do to you know keep it straight that's great i'm just kind of doing this without pins and all of that stuff so that you can see what i'm doing and honestly that's usually what i do so when i get to that point i'm going to back stitch and i'm just gonna make sure that's all lined up and i'm gonna be doing my quarter inch seam up here and then i just stop every few inches now remember this is the exact same way that you do the large bag the exact same way and when i cut out these pieces for the lining and for the batting for the large bag i do the exact same thing just make them you know half inch to an inch bigger all the way around okay now i get all the way to the end next stitch and all right so now at this point what i do because i forgot to show you on the other one but i open this and make sure that i'm not having any white show okay so that i sewed it there and that looks great so that's what that's going to look like that's what that's going to look like so again i'm just going to take this over to the ironing board having these zipper pulls out of the way and i'm going to press this open so that it's nice and flat and then turn it around this way and you can see your bag what it's going to look like starting to take shape just finger pressing it here and then i'm going to do the same thing with the batting and so this is what i meant by lining up the stitches the best you can see on the side see this is shifted over just a little teeny bit but that is not even going to matter it's just not going to matter i'll show you how i do that when i say shifting over a little bit it really is just a little bit so i'm going to take this piece of batting open that up place that in there this is a little bit longer piece so just make sure it's flat everywhere before i fold that back over and as i'm sewing along i can always make sure that it's tucked in there nice i like it tucked in there i don't like it folded over i just like one flat piece of batting and again you can just grab a pin if you want and stick along here if you're worried about it shifting okay now i'm just going to bring it back over here and start with the back stitching and i can just make sure that this batting is tucked all the way under there and i'm just doing the same thing on the other side i don't know what that noise was but i hope i'm not running out of bobbin if i am on i'll rewind it and be right back let me see oh i am okay hang on okay i got my bobbin fixed and now i'm just going to continue sewing along here top stitching and again i'm kind of pulling apart even though i've pinned it and everything i just want to make sure that this is all in fact i'm going to take these pins out and show you what you can what i normally would be doing if i wasn't pinning here i would just lift this up you know and just tuck that in fill with my fingers make sure that it's just not folded at all and just keep going until the end backstitch a little bit and sew right off of there and cut that off see this is why i like to use those fabric tags i don't like all those threads hanging around all the time okay so this is what it looks like at this point on the back and on the front and this is the point now where i bring my zippers over that's important don't forget about your zippers being over here and then you're like whoops so i just at this point i just kind of bring them together you know in the center i mean you can't open them up at this point but i keep saying at this point um i love sewing with the double zippers because normally you have one zipper pull that you're over here and you're trying to figure out how to keep this together and it's just your bags turn out kind of wonky this way it just keeps it nice and tight together you've got two poles and it so it not only is it cute and convenient after the bag is done but when you are sewing with two pulls at the same time i really really love it it's a game changer for me and if this is the first time you've sewn a bag then you really don't understand the difference but if it's not and then you sew with the double zippers you'll know what i mean okay so now that i have this all together here what i want to do is sew all the way around here or on the edges if i'm not doing any quilting okay but because i'm going to do a little bit of quilting on this i'm going to show you how i do it so this i think is a perfect opportunity to do a little bit of quilting so i'm just going to sew right between this red and this white okay so it's already smooth and pinned but sometimes let me take this pin out sometimes i'll take it over here and just press it like this and that kind of keeps it all together see how nice and smooth that is no wrinkles and i'm gonna um start right here and just sew in to the quilting and this is why i love a walking foot see no shifting i can see it's open like i always like to use an open-toed foot so i can see exactly where my needle is going in and i'm just doing a regular stitch on this and i forgot to talk about thread too i just use the same thread that i always use for piecing i either use a white i always use exclusively our fill because i love autofill thread this is um 2000. i use this a lot and this looks nice it looks like very creamy right here compared to this but that's not what it looks like singly you can see how it looks very nice and blends in with everything so that's what i'm using and i use most of the time okay so i'm just continuing and i have that in the bobbin as well just continuing to quilt all the way around here and having this little bed here on this um helps me to keep things nice and flat i'm just going all the way around there i'll be back stitching at the end but this is a perfect time to maybe just start here and maybe i'll backstitch at the corner so i can start on one edge and then come back again all right so what i'm doing is i'm going to be sewing all the way around the edges now that i've done this little bit of quilting all the way around the edges but not on this stitched line i'm not going to sew on this stitch line i'm going to sew inside of it just a little bit inside of it because i'm going to end up cutting on this stitched line okay so i want to sew just a little bit inside here and of course this already has a stitched line that's cut on so i'm just sewing inside of it and while this is here i'm going to clip that off so i can use it so now i'm just going to stop right inside this black stitched line see so it's almost sort of like i'm top stitching meaning i'm going to use this black line as a guide to be inside of the zipper now when i'm getting here see right here where i want this to line up this is where you can kind of see if you're going straight right here you can just keep going and it ends up kind of doing the same thing so and when i trim it it's going to end up being that shape i'm going to take these pins out while they're here let's take them back in my little truck i should wheel my truck over here so i can just put my pins back that way and then see how these are again a little bit i'll just kind of make it line up and at this point i usually do this i go back and forth over the zipper just a few times okay my zippers are really easy to sew over you just don't want to sew over the poles obviously so i'm just going inside there a little bit i know i'm all the way around there so i'll just sew off of there and i don't have a little tag there okay now because i forgot to show you that there i was so worried about you showing how to line it up i'm going to go ahead and reinforce over that zipper back and forth i just like to do that just to reinforce it okay so this is what you'll do after you've quilted now on this little bag right here i quilted across here and so i'll show you how i do that and i also quilted across the back but you don't have to on a lot of them i didn't do any quilting at all like on a lot of these small ones see here's here's a good example here i didn't do any quilting at all on this one and you know it's really nice that i didn't um iron the batting to it or anything like that it still you know stays together nice but when i'm quilting like straight lines that's what i usually like to do i like the way it looks but i also like that it's easy i'll just use the edge of this here's my stitches right here and i'll just use the edge of this as a guide and i'll just go back and forth and i'm watching these stitches right here okay and then i want to go back the other way and what i do is i just will backstitch the other way instead of having to turn around and i just know that i'm four or five on this it's about six stitches just because i've been doing it so much i know that it's about six stitches that i sew and now my line that i previously stitched can you see that right there that's what i'm going to follow on this line so i just go back and forth and i do that on the back of the bags or on the front of the bags if there's a cute design that i'll just stitch around that'll be bad stitch all the way to the inside there and because this is facing me now i can just just do six you know five or six stitches that way this is only going to take three or four lines so i like how they look quilted or not quilted and if you don't you know want the thickness of the batting or if you're worried about that just do lining or just do no lining without lining um they make perfectly good bags that's just for your sewing motions or something like that but um whoops i i needed to do one more stitch i didn't get far enough away and um so it's just easy to add that detail okay so this is the last line i'll need to do and this is how i machine quilt all the time using a walking foot using my bernina and i just use different lines to guide me a lot a lot of times i'll take my washi tape and use that for lines if i need to if i'm marking diagonal lines or anything like that um you know just pretty handy that way so i guess this kind of doubles is a little bit of a machine quilting tutorial and so i used to do big quilts this way on my burning i believe it or not before they had alarm quilting but um now i just do like my own table runners pillows things like that that are easier to maneuver under the machine okay so that's what that looks like all right and then what i'm going to do is take my scissors here you know what i'm not going to use these scissors because i don't want to cut across the zipper with those but these are scissors that i've had for a long time and and they're nice handy scissors and um i'll just use those so what i'm doing here is i'm just cutting out on the line i'm doing this just a little bit a little bit past it because i don't want to cut into that stitching and see how you can just cut across that zipper and i'm just trying not to cut into the stitching sorry i'm holding it far away from me so you can see so i couldn't really see my stitching line and then i'm just cutting out right on this line these are my kind of go-to scissors you know i hope you have a pair of scissors in your room that you've had forever that you don't want to cut across the zippers with that will still cut you know these three layers it's kind of a little bit of a you know they're not as sharp as my other ones but i want to save my i want to save my other quilting scissors okay so now i've just cut that out and this is like the leftovers that i use to make these and so that's what that looks like now all right and then i want to decide where i'm going to put this tag because the design is right here then i usually will put it over here so i can put it down below or i can put it up above i think i'm going to put it up above here and i can decide which which design i want sticking out now right now you're like okay yeah i want that but remember when we're going to sew these with right sides together your tag is going to end up sticking out like this so that's the side that's going to show so just so you know when you're deciding which side and so what i do here is i just line up the raw edges i'm going to be doing a quarter inch seam and this is just eighth inch stitching within there so that will all be hidden on the edge and so um what i do there is i'll just start sewing right there and i just do a tiny little seam there lined up so that that's going to be in in place and will be encased in the seam so now my front piece is all ready to go i always do the front piece first deciding how i'm going to quilt it and things like that okay so that's ready to go the last thing i do is open my zipper before i set it aside and work on you know when you can do it i don't know probably this wide i use but you know leave about an inch and a half on each side okay so that's what that looks like you can see the quilting there that's bunched up there when i ran out of bobbin so i'm going to pull that thread out so i'll do that in a minute before i sew it together so i'm going to set this aside and i work on the back piece okay so this is where you can either i've got the backing the lining and the backing piece and the batting in between and you can just go ahead and quilt it in straight lines diagonally however you want to quilt it or you know do meandering whatever you want to do but i'm just going to go all the way around the seams just like i showed you because i want to show you how to get this bag done but again this is the point that i would just quilt it if i was ready now this piece is going to end up just a little bit bigger than your front piece i designed it that way just so that you can you know trim it down when you need to and it's just always better to have too much fabric on the backing piece so that you can you know make sure it goes exactly how you want it to go so all i'm doing here is just going inside these black lines these little black dashed stitching lines and then because this is where i cut it apart so it has the kind of the dash lines there i'm just going to go within an eighth of an inch there and i'm going to end up trimming that off anyway so it really doesn't matter but you do just need to have it trimmed all the way around so that um i just might as well use that piece you know so that it's all held together nicely and usually i had i had had this pressed but usually before i start this process because i didn't pin before i do that i'll you know i'll bring it over here and i'll press the whole thing and that seems to kind of make those all you know blend together nicely okay so now i can go ahead and cut this right on the lines and i don't have a scissor i mean a scissor a zipper to worry about so i'll just go ahead and cut that i know i again this might be kind of very boring to watch me cut but i really do want to show you every step of making the bag and what i do from start to finish without any you know speeding up or shortcuts or anything like that so that you know exactly what i'm doing that you know how to do this so that when you're doing this you can um visit me here on my channel and go through it step by step when you're making your bag all right so now i've got this ready to go okay so i'm going to set this down and again like i said it's bigger but it should be the same width but it's bigger it's longer this way but it should be the same width because i cut out on the lines here on the dashed lines and cut out on the dashed lines here okay so what i'm going to do is put right sides together pick pick that i don't want to do that with them sticking out both sides i want it the same width and then just leave that on the bottom that's fine but important again right sides together like this okay and what i do is i am just going to do a quarter inch seam allowance and i'm going to start here and i'm going to go down here and i'm going to watch this quarter inch seam on my zipper foot and that's how i'm going to know definitely backstitch when you start and stop and i don't there's just not necessary to pin but again if you're a pinner i were to go ahead and pin the heck out of it if you want but um i'm gonna backstitch that because i lifted that up and i don't know if i um did those stitches even right there okay hang on a minute all right so as i'm getting closer to the end i'm just making sure that these are all lined up and if this wants to hang over a little bit like look i could pull this and make it hang over a little bit i just make sure that i pull this one this one ends up being a little teeny bit smaller because of the quilting see what i was talking about how it kind of shrinks up right there but i just make sure that it fits on that edge go to the end of the quarter inch right there and pivot and line them up that way now as i'm sewing down a side so you can see that i'm going to be getting to the zipper here right here so i'm going to back stitch back and forth over that just to reinforce it do it a couple three times and this is where it's going to be longer down here that's perfectly fine okay and then i'm going to do this one last one i just do the two sides first because i want to go from the top down from this leftover fabric just to make sure everything is the same and so now i'm going to do this last side right here see make sure everything's tucked in there there's the tag now i usually do go back over the tag just a little bit too just to make sure see this walking foot is so nice it allows you to go over all these thicknesses and and uh this just is very helpful okay so now i'm going over the zipper i'm gonna make all this match up on the bottom back stitch right here and then before i do this before i sew this closed i want to make sure that this zipper is open okay that's where you want to make sure that's open and then i'm just going to go ahead and stitch right on top of there backstitch you guys we're almost done with this bag then i'm just going to trim this left over i like having this left over just so that i can shift it up and down now you didn't need to um worry about which direction this fabric was going because this is not a directional fabric i have the sewing machines going all different directions but that would have been the point that i should have pointed out that um you want to make sure that everything is right side up and you know how your bag is going to look so the last thing i do is i'm going to zigzag the edges so i just turn it to a zigzag just so that all those edges aren't fraying on the inside and you guys i'm so excited to be able to show you this bag and my panels are here it's been so fun and i love using fun lining fabric you can just use plain something if you want but i always find it a nice surprise when i open my bags there's a cute little lining inside of there you know if you've got to do something you know my model if you have to do something you might as well make it cute and so if i have to put a piece of fabric in there i want to make it a cute fun surprise i can see when i open it up all right this is the last one oh you know what instead of clipping that off i should have just used it a little back stitch here okay turn it back to a straight stitch flip that off and now we are ready to turn the bag okay so what i do is just gently even though you know the zippers are there i just don't want to rip anything so i'll usually just take my finger and push that out each corner on the top part first then the bottom part has more room so it's easier push the corners out push that out and i just try not to tug on the zipper or you know tug on things i'm not supposed to be tugging on now that's what it looks like before you um poke your corners out now you can use anything i just you know use this for my applique so i have it here so it's just as easy to um poke that out and you've got a lot of layers going there so i'll just kind of turn that and because if you have now you have batting that you've turned inside out and so that's going to be um you know it's not going to come to a straight point like see that's just going to be kind of a rounded because of all that bulkiness but you know that's what a quilted battle bag looks like also um you can put um you can put binding around them instead of putting them right sides together and sewing them um you can you would just at this point instead of putting them right sides together and doing the quarter inch seam you would just put them right sides out and maybe baste them together with the eighth of an inch you know inside and then go ahead and put your binding on it you can do that too i've done that with bags before as well and there's just a lot of options with these bags and i just wanted to give you the basic instructions on how to sew an unlined bag on the panel just so that you could do it that way and obviously i couldn't fit all of this instructions and step by step on the panel and it's just something that's easier to show you as we go through it okay so let me turn that sideways push that out i think that's good to go all right see that cute lining in there and then i'm going to close my zippers i'm going to bring it over to the ironing board and what i do is i like to roll my seams like this on the bottom and the sides meaning i kind of just roll out those seams so that shaped nice and i just give a quick press on each side of the bag pull that tag out push down on that zipper and it just gives it a nice little finish so that when you're looking at the front of the bag you only see the front and you don't see part of the back rolled around see that makes quite a difference and there's my cute little bag i can open it like that i can put my little charms on there or you know add my little flower my crochet flower but um i love having both of these sizes the bags and there's just a lot of different things that i use bags for and so i'm excited to be using these i can do these for uh sewing notions for retreats you know this is easily could hold your rotary cutter and your scissors and things like that and um do that for the smaller ones for cross stitch i you know can use this for cross stitch which i do all the time my project bags and what i wanted to do larger and smaller bags so that because usually what i do for cross stitch is i like to keep my floss holders or my flosses in a separate bag and put them inside the larger bag so i like that they can be worked together like that um i'm so again i'm putting like sewing kits in there sewing notions you know button covered stuff i'm washi tape i mean just you know we as crafters we're doing all kinds of things and you know um need to put different things in our bags to keep organized one of the fun things that i'll be doing with this one right here is look what just came in with this box look how fun okay this is my planner my 2022 planner and this is exactly what it looks like in a box okay so i'm so excited about this and for sure and i showed you my paper earlier and things like that but what i've got in here is my planner pens my planner and my washi tapes my bookmarks my little tabs things like that and i'm gonna have plenty of room for all of these so for sure i'll definitely be using you know a bag for my planner so i am so excited about these i hope that you loved my tutorial i hope you love my panel i hope you um just sit down grab a panel and grab my happy zippers here so excited about all these colors and the double poles and um stitch up a bag with me and uh let me know how it goes and let me know how you feel about this tutorial let me know how you feel about my channel you guys are all so sweet leaving your comments i appreciate it so much i appreciate you subscribing to my channel um liking my videos that really helps me out a lot and it keeps me going keeps me motivated and you can bet i'll be right here next week with another tutorial and i will chat with you later [Music]

Channel: Lori Holt

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Length: 69min 4sec (4144 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 15 2021