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Sew-Along Day 3 – The Granny Bag

Today we will finish the bag! Yay! 1. Iron on the interfacing to the long strips (handle strips) by aligning the pieces down the middle. Set aside for later. 2. Taking one of the shorter strips, pin it to the top opening of the…

May 9, 2012

Sew-Along Day 2 – The Granny Bag

How did Day 1 go? Too fast? Too slow?  Shall we move on? Let’s proceed to making the bag body today. 🙂 1 . Sew the darts (See below) 2. Repeat on the other side. Now one side of your bag should look like…

May 8, 2012

Sew-Along Day 1 – The Granny Bag

It’s the first day of our sew-along! Before we begin, I just wanted to go into some details on interfacing and fabric cutting. Those of you who have already made bags and are expert sewers, please bear with me or just skip this section…

May 7, 2012

My First Sewalong!

One of the great suggestions from the Mother’s Day Book Giveaway was to have a sew-along. Originally, I wanted to do a sew-along that will use pattern from a Japanese sewing book so that we can go through the entire process of deciphering the…

May 3, 2012