Sometimes all you need is something big enough to fit your keys, credit cards, and cell phones (or even a compact camera). I made these purses at the request of my best friend who was married two weeks ago (Congrats!!!) as gifts for the bridesmaids. Here's a step-by-step tutorial. This is my first sewing tutorial! Hopefully the photos will help make everything clear.
Materials:
- 6.5" x 6" outer material
- 6.5" x 6" lining material
- 7" zipper
- 16" satin ribbon
1. Pin the outer material to the zipper along the shorter length of fabric. Make sure it's face down.
2. Flip the zipper and material upside down and pin the lining material along the zipper. It should form a fabric sandwich with the zipper between.
3. Use a straight stitch to sew the layers to the zipper. (Using a zipper foot on your sewing machine makes this easier).
4. Fold the two layers of fabric back so that they're right side up and iron it flat.
5. Pin the other ends of the fabric to the zipper, right sides facing inside. You should end up with something like the photos below. It's a bit hard to explain.
6. Open the zipper half way and sew the fabric onto the zipper.
7. Flip the fabric right side up. It's almost looking like a purse now right?
8. Flip the purse inside out again. Stitch along one edge leaving 1/4" of fabric. Go over the zipper portion a few times then trim the excess fabric. Make sure that the zipper is open so that you can flip the purse right side out later.
9. Insert the ribbon through the opening in the zipper, making sure that the ends will be stitched when you sew up the other side of the purse. Sew along the edge leaving 1/4" of fabric then trim the excess.
Optional step: Overlock or serge the raw edges to prevent fraying.
10. Flip the purse inside out and enjoy! You're all done!
You can now add any embellishments that you like ;) I added a little chiffon rosette and leaf.
18 comments:
that's really cool! loved the pink inside it!:)
So cute!
Fabulous tutorial!
xoxox,
CC
very cute! and perfect for bridesmaid gifts :D
Hi there! I came here by way of Craft, and your blog is simply delightful.
I love making purses as well, and I'm sure your easy tutorial is going to inspire many others to make their own!
-Juanita
This Blogis very useful for the concern to make conversation for any ideas hence i loved it.
Thanks
I'm not terribly good with sewing and can't quite make out what's going on in your photos because they are very small. I noticed the images are being served from Flickr. Would you mind posting a link to your Flickr stream so I can see the large versions?
Thank you for sharing your tutorial!
No problem! The larger versions of the photos are available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sugarlotus/
Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments ;)
This is being added to my "to sew" queue. Great job with the pictures!
Aww, that is so sweet! I would love to link to this if you didn't mind. I jsut found it via Craft.
Sure! You're welcome to link to it Rachel ;)
Love this tutorial - THANKS!
Oh wow, thanks so much for sharing this tutorial! I want to go to a craft store immediately to get started on this project.
Great purse! I like the zipper application. I'm going to try that out!
Hello!
I really like your how to. I was wondering if I could translate it in French and add it to my list of how to as explained in my french post (http://www.petitcitron.com/index.php/form_howto.html)
Of course, your website would be quoted and there would be a link!
Thank you,
Perrine
You're welcome to translate it Perrine. Please put a link to this site. :)
love this!! I have now made six little pouches. One for each of the girls that I know dance. It holds their "dance jewelery" Perfect size!!! The instructions were so helpful. I tried by myself first but just could not figure it out :)
Oh I'm glad the instructions were clear enough to use! Thank you!
Oh this looks great and easy to make. I've been dying to try to make a zipper pouch... the zipper part is what scares me- but this looks easy to understand!! Thank you! :)
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