PatternPile.com: Versatile Extend-A-Handbag Sewing ePattern

PatternPile.com:

Versatile Extend-A-Handbag Sewing ePattern

The best bag to take on that shopping trip.  While all your friends are struggling to hang on to their many bags, your Extend-A-Handbag will hold everything you want.  Straps are long enough to hold on your shoulder when extended and still short enough when the bag is closed up to carry in your hand.  So versatile!

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Blooms And Bugs: Sewing tutorials, DIY instructions, Free patterns and More

Blooms And Bugs: Sewing tutorials, DIY instructions, Free patterns and More

A Quick and Clever Top Stitching Guide

I've started to use masking tape to mark my top stitching line instead of my disappearing ink pen or my dressmaker's chalk...

Plastic placemats instead of cardboard inside bags

The majority of the bag patterns you will find will ask you to put use cardboard inside or laying along the bottom of a bag to help keep a bag's shape. You can not wash cardboard.  Once it gets wet, it disintegrates. 

Corner Seam Junction

Cross your seams, but don't pivot when sewing at the corner where two seams meet.