How to sew a shopping bag with your own hands?

Shopping bag is an indispensable attribute in everyday life. Often purchased in the store products are not satisfied with their quality, spaciousness or colors. I want the accessory to be functional, look appropriate and fashionable. It is easy to sew a shopping bag with your own hands so that you like it, it was practical and looked beautiful - it’s easy if you are familiar with the intricacies of sewing.

Shopping bag must be strong and reliable. This accessory is indispensable for shopping and meets all requirements: this bag is always reliable, comfortable, roomy, it is easy to wear, beautiful and often stylish. With a skillful approach to design, you can create a product in the best Italian tradition, when at least, the decor and unusual texture will create the desired effect.

In some models, if a special cut is provided, it is even better that the textiles are thin or soft (transformer model). Such a product will not take up much space, so it can be placed in an ordinary handbag, returning it to a roll or turning it several times.

The proposed workshops will help to understand the technique of sewing a simple but stylish bag and understand that it is much easier than it seems at first glance.

Raincoat fabric - thin textiles with water-repellent impregnation The bag from such material will be practical, reliable and mobile.

For its manufacture are needed:

• the fabric itself and the material for the lining;
• acrylic paints;
• paint brush;
• sewing supplies.

For the manufacture of bags need to prepare the details:

• billet base (30 x 46 cm);
• 2 sidewalls (8 x 46 cm), pocket (18 x 16 cm);
• 2 handles (7 x 50) cm, not forgetting to add small seam allowances.

You can navigate to the finished template by printing it in full size or gluing together several sheets of A4.

The sewing steps are as follows:

1. Cutting all the blanks, collect the base: 2 details of the facade and 2 sides. It turns out a rectangle connected in a ring. The same is done with the lining. To enhance the strength, finishing lines can be laid along the seams of the base.
2. If you can afford a drawing, it is advisable to circle the pattern area and draw it before cutting (so as not to expose excessive deformation). After the paint has dried, the pocket is cut to size, the oversize is tucked in and stitched to the base part at the desired location.
3. The base is folded face inward, combined bottom and stitched on a typewriter. The seam is ironed out, folded with corners on the sides and create a volume: a line is laid from one sidewall to the other at a 45-degree angle perpendicular to the pressed seam. Excess tissue is cut. The same is done with the lining. Then it is connected to the base (along the upper edge), combining the seams with the help of sewing pins, and the cut is stitched on a typewriter.
4. It remains to turn out the product, process the top., bending the seam allowance inwards, and sew handles. To alleviate the problem of stitching, you can focus on the labels located on the metal plate to the right of the presser foot, combining textiles on them.

The shopper is a rather fashionable and uncomplicated bag with pictures or inscriptions, which can be done by any girl, even without special skills in sewing. The model is based on simplicity and style. It is practical, comfortable, roomy, mobile and easy to maintain. She is not ashamed to appear on the beach or go to the store to shop.

To create a stylish accessory you will need:

• coarse flax (cotton);
• sewing pins;
• pencil;
• iron;
• scissors;
• durable thread;
• ruler;
• markers or special fabric dyes;
• sewing machine.

The following steps:

1. Sewing does not need a pattern all blanks are cut immediately from the fabric: base (94 x 44 cm), edging top (86 x 5 cm), two blanks of handles (52 x 8 cm). The base is folded in two, combining the edges, and the side sections are cut off, retreating from the edge of 1 cm. To keep the textiles from crumbling, the edges are covered with a typewriter.
2. Handle blanks folded face up in width and stitch on a typewriter, then turn out, straighten and ironed.
3. Finished handles are applied to the top of the bag at a distance of 10 cm from the side borders. The base is folded face to face, and the handles themselves are inserted into the product so that their edge coincides with the upper border of the bag. The distance between the handles should be approximately 15 cm.
4. A strip of 85 x 5 cm is pinned to the front side of the base. pins and stitch, while fastening double stitches handles. Wrapping the remaining edge of the finishing strip 1 cm, it is stitched on a typewriter, thereby closing the processing of the top of the bag.
5. The model ready for decoration will be decorated with a special marker for fabric. Before using acrylic paint, you need to draw a sketch with an ordinary simple pencil. When drawing a picture, you need to put a sheet of paper or oilcloth under the fabric layer so that the paint does not get printed on the second side of the bag. So that the lines are smooth, you can use a ruler or hold them quickly: any braking of the hand will affect the thickness of the line.
6. If it’s scary to draw by hand, you can use the ready stencilcut out of paper. A4 sheet may not be enough, but the dimensions of the newspaper is fine. You can not draw on the fabric of ordinary markers: after washing the product will become unusable.

A bag with a monochrome pattern will always be relevant, since white and black shades have long entered the history of fashion and are classics.

This accessory is universal, indispensable for shopping and grocery shopping. It will eliminate the need to constantly buy disposable packages, becoming a constant shopping companion. The only difficult nuance can be the problem of even lines: repeated punctures of such material can affect the appearance.

To create a fashionable bag you will need:

• laminated cotton in two colors;
• nylon mesh;
• lining;
• elastic cord;
• braid;
• ruler;
• tape measure;
• durable thread;
• special glue;
• scissors;
• sewing machine.

Focusing on the details of the templates offered in color, you need to cut:

• from the base: 2 large parts (50 x 38), 2 internal pockets (35 x 25 cm), fringing of the inner part (110 x 8 cm), handles (143 x 8 cm);
• from the lining: the inner part (47 x 110 cm) and 2 front parts (50 x 20 cm);
• from the grid: a pocket (25.5 x 35.5 cm).

To make it clearer how to sew, you need to use a color scheme. A careful study of the pattern will simplify sewing:

• blanks 50 x 20 cm are the central fragments of the bag, large details are sewn to them, which consist of the front and sidewalls;
• the bottom of the mesh pocket is sewn to the front finishing fabric and fixed at the sides;
• the lining of the product provides a side connection: the location of the pockets depends on it;
• handles sewn on top of the seam connecting the two parts of the facade;
• the edging of the top is first attached to the assembled parts of the top, and then connected to the lining.

1. At first lining details stitch pockets, tucked their allowances. You can stitch one of them in the middle, thereby completing pockets for small items.
2. Having collected a mesh pocket with braid and an elastic cord, it is placed on the central blanks, the bottom edge is attached and the side sections are fixed. Since the fabric can leave punctures, it is better to draw alignment lines with notches (the seams of attachment of finishing parts can be marked with a pencil so that they are barely noticeable).
3. Having collected the details of the base and the lining, they are interconnected, then ready-made pens. This bag looks beautiful on the outside and inside.

Patterns for shopping bags are simple. Even the trolley model is made on the basis of a simple pattern. Its only difference is that the size of the accessory is noticeably larger than other shopping bags. The material for such a bag should be quite dense and coarse.

The difference between sewing models is small:

1. The blank is cut in accordance with the template.
2. Fold along the fold and make the sidewall of the whole canvas.
3. For convenience, add a valve on top.
4. If desired, you can perform the edging seams contrasting bake.

In some cases, the pattern of the envelope bag is suitable for such a bag with the only difference that it will be necessary to create a volume on the sides so that the product is not flat.

To learn how to sew a product quickly and without a pattern, see the following video.