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1. Intro: Hi, and welcome, I'm Natalie. I've been sewing and
crafting since I was a teenager and recently
started my own brand. And in this class, I
will show you how to sew a practical and
beautiful qin purse. It is lined, has got a zipper, and a doing for attaching
it to your bag or backpack. For this project, you will
only need basic sewing skills, as we'll be using your sewing
machines straight stitch. You will practice the
following basic skills. Cutting straight stitch, top stitch and
sewing in a zipper. This is an ideal
upcycling project as we only need a small amount
of fabric for the wallet. You can use any
woven fabric such as denim, canvas or tweed. It is best to use a
slightly sturdier fabric to give the back a nice shape. A lightweight cotton fabric or thinner denim is
perfect for the lining. Finally, you can decorate the zipper with a
piece of leather, a ribbon, or a string of pears,
depending on your taste. First, here's an overview of
the materials you will need. A sturdy fabric 11 by eight inch or an upcycling
item you want to cut. A thinner fabric,
14 by eight inch or cotton fabric leftovers. The printed pattern
or paper rectangle, 6.5 by five inch. A 6.5 inch zipper. Two pair of scissors, one for
fabric and one for threads. A thread, chalk, a
daring, and some pins. All ready. In the next video, we will start directly
with the cutting.
2. Cutting: Let's start with the cutting. Take the pattern and place
it on the main fabric. If you have a pattern
like stripes, place the pattern
according to it. Pin it to the fabric at all four corners and cut
directly along the pattern. The sim alone is
already included. Repeat the process for
the back of the wallet. Now we'll cut the lining fabric. Follow the same steps here. After the two lining pieces, we will cut the facings
for Daring and zipper. Take the dearing and fold
a piece of the lining in half so that the doubled fabric is as white as the entire ring. Cut the stripe. It should be about 2 " or five
centimeter long. For the zipper facing,
fold a piece of the lining fabric in half and place it on the
end of the zipper. Cut it as white as the zipper. Now we have a folded square.
3. Prepare: A Now, let's connect the
daring in the facing. Take the cut strip
and fold a quarter of an inch or half a centimeter
inward along the long edge. Fold the facing back together. Now you can iron the
facing or sew it directly. Sew it with your machine using a straight stitch
close to the edge. Don't forget to secure
the seam with a couple of back stitches at the
beginning and the end. Pull the strip through
the ring and secure it with a straight stitch across
the center of the facing. Great job. Now for the zipper, take the prepared square
with the fork toward the zipper and sew
it close to the edge under the last tooth. We're done. Now we can start attaching the
zipper to the main fabric. Oh
4. Zipper: O. Let's start by placing the
zipper on the main fabric. Open the zipper and place
it right side down on the right side of the
fabric, edge to edge. Now take the lining and place it wrong side up on the same edge. All three edges meet at the top. Secure the sandwich
with pencil clips. I use regular pins and remove them just before I
machine sew this area. We will now machine
sew the top edge three quarters of the
way from the left edge. Sew gently, about 1 centimeter or two fifths of an
inch from the edge. We will stop before we
hit the zipper slide. Open the sandwich and
close the zipper, fold it back together,
and finish the seam. Now check that the
zipper works smoothly. There should be no fabric
in the way closing it. If this is the case, open the seam and sew a few
millimeter further out. Now for the second
side of the zipper, first cut off the axis facing
at the end of the zipper. Then place the zipper
right side down on the right side of the
main fabric, edge to edge. Now take the lining fabric and place it wrong side
up on the sandwich. We have now three layers
edge to edge again. Secure the sandwich with
pins and sew again up to the zipper slider
about 1 centimeter or two fifths of an
inch from the edge. So slowly and carefully again, ensuring the three layers don't shift until you reach
the zipper slider. Now open the zipper and
sew the remaining seam. Secure the seam at the end. Now check the zipper again. It should close easily. You can now iron the fabric flat at the zipper
on both sides. Back from the ironing board, we can begin top
stitching the zipper. Top stitch the main fabric along the zipper
close to the edge. We start at the facing and stop again at the zipper slider. Sew a few millimeter
along the zipper. This also secures the lining
so it sits nicely later. About 1 " remains unstitched
at the top and the bottom. Well done. Now the second side. Trim all thread ends. You've now completed the most important part of
our sewing project. In the next step, we will
sew the wallet together.
5. Sewing: We're pretty fi long now, and next we'll through the fabric pieces to give
the wallet its shape. Open the zip or two
thirds of the way. Now four to two
outer fabric pieces and the two inner fabric
pieces onto each other. Right side on right side, pin the corners together. Now, take the dearing
and place it in the sandwich on the side
where the zipper opens, between the two
outer fabric pieces. Place it close to the zipper
and secure it with a pin. We saw the rectangle
all the way around, leaving an opening of about 3 " in the middle of
the lining area. Mark with chalk where
you leave the seam open. Start at the right corner
of the outer fabric. Remove the pins as
you go and secure the seam with back stitches
at the beginning and end. Slowly sew over
the deving facing. Put the seam allowances
in the middle of the sandwich towards the lining
fabric and sew over them. Stop at the first mark. Now turn the sandwich and continue sewing
where we started at the outer fabric up to the second mark on
the lining fabric. Remove all pins and sew the seam again 1 millimeter further
out for reinforcement. If your fabric frays a lot, you can also use a
zigzag stitch to finish the edges instead. Great job. Now let's trim the
seam allowances. To do this, cut the fabric a few millimetre from the
seam, including the corners. Leave the seam allowance on
the lining fabric for sewing. Now we turn the wallet through
the opening in the lining. Tuck the corners neatly. You will see how
it's taking shape. Now, use a bland tool to
completely tuck out the corners. I like to use rounded scissors. Now, all we have to do is to close the opening
and the lining. To do this, ford the seam
allowances inwards and n over. We saw the opening,
close to the edge. Cut all the threads and tuck the lining back
into the wallet. We're almost done,
doesn't it look great? But.
6. Outro: We decorate your new purse. I'll show you how
to quickly make a zipper pull from
leather scraps. Take a piece of
leather, for example, from an old bag
and cut the strip about half an inch wide
to your desired length. This will be folded in half. Then thread the strip
through the zipper. This works especially where if you're using a
heavy duty zipper. Now you stitch along the
middle of the length, short all the threads, and cut the pull at the end. Doesn't it look beautiful. I'm sure you did a great job. You can try various
other designs using this technique,
for example, with embroidery, larger sizes for makeup and pencils or
the super cute cat purse, which I will show you in my
next video step by step.
Natalie, textile artist
