Sentimental Stitches

We are getting to the home stretch here. How many of you are laughing at me and saying “You can’t make this bag in a couple of hours”. Yes, you can make the bag in a couple of hours but let me tell you, you can’t write a tutorial that fast. Dang – it’s taken [...]

Isn’t it amazing the results you get after stitching those twisted seams? That’s when you feel like you’re making progress toward an actual bag rather than a strange looking pinwheel with no possible use. Hopefully your bag looks like this. Now we’ll work with the fabric and batting strips you cut for the handles and [...]

This seems to be the place lots of people get confused about what to sew together. I was scratching my head the first time I made a bag so don’t feel bad if you’ve gotten stuck here. We’re going to be bringing these two strips together. The seams that connect the strips appear to twist [...]