There has always been love for all handicrafts in our country. That is why, even with an abundance of cheap consumer goods, our housewives do not deny themselves the pleasure of sewing a beautiful and, most importantly, practical bag for going to the store.
It is necessary
- - old jeans;
- - scissors, needles, threads;
- - sewing machine;
- - a piece of wallpaper to build a pattern;
- - beads.
Instructions
Step 1
Perhaps, there is no more practical fabric in our everyday life than denim. It is pants or a skirt made of such fabric that will become the ideal basis for a shopping bag. So, rip the jeans along the inside seam, and then along the zipper and back seam. You will have two canvases, from which you will need to cut out the details of the bag.
Step 2
You can give the bag any shape. In this case, building a pattern is very simple. Take a piece of unnecessary wallpaper, draw an oval on it, as shown in the main picture. Draw a semicircle inside - the thickness of the handles will depend on how close it is to the edge. Cut out the resulting detail - this will be the base of the bag - what others will see first. For a pattern of handles, place a base and circle the handles. To get a pattern for the bottom, place the base on the paper in the same way and trace the bottom edge. Turn over, attach again.
Step 3
Place the patterns over the denim. You will need 2 base parts, handles and 1 bottom part. For greater strength of the bottom, the fabric can be strengthened with doublerin. The procedure for stitching the bag parts is as follows: - put the handles on the base wrong side to the wrong side, fold the edges and sew; - sew the bottom to the bottom of the base; - join the base parts with side seams from the wrong side, turn the bag to the front side and make finishing seams. - Sew a zipper between handles.
Step 4
A bag of this shape in itself makes this accessory fashionable. But to make it even more colorful, sew flowers from the same jeans. It's simple: Cut the fabric into strips 5 cm wide. Fold in half and sew them from the inside out, as if you were sewing a belt. Turn to the front, gather one side together. Sew the resulting flower in the area of one of the handles. The core of the flower can be trimmed with beads. They can also decorate the rest of the bag.
