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Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.

Textbooks are heavy and difficult to carry in school bags, and suitable school bags are not available in stores. Ingenious mothers can hand-make cloth book bags for their children, which is environmentally friendly and convenient. Old clothes that you don't wear can be remade, and the remaking tutorial is very simple. Prepare the fabric and follow the production department editor to try it out! Today, the editor of the production department has compiled a detailed tutorial on how to make a cloth book bag, teaching you how to make a convenient book bag. Let’s try it out together!

Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.

Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags

  1. Prepare a long piece of fabric, fold it in half in the middle, as shown in the picture below, and sew the seam edges 1 cm on both sides. (yellow line location)
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  2. Similarly, prepare a piece of lining fabric and fold it in half in the middle, set a 10cm return opening at one location, and sew the sides with a 1cm seam allowance. (yellow line)
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  3. Make handbag straps. Repeat folding the strip of fabric toward the center. Depending on the fabric, if it is very thin, you can use thicker material to design it.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  4. Use a sewing machine to sew the ends.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  5. Temporarily sew the straps on both sides with a seam width of about 1 cm so that the positions of both sides of the straps are aligned.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  6. Turn the bag back over and place the lining fabric inside the front fabric (inside).
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  7. Try it and if the inner fabric seems a little too long, cut and adjust it according to the front fabric.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  8. Sew "2cm" around the seam edge.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  9. Turn it back to the front through the return opening.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  10. The sewing machine sews a circle (yellow thread). Then sew another circle (red line) at a distance of 2 cm.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.
  11. The cloth book bag is completed. Books as big as A4 paper can be put in it.
    Detailed tutorial on making cloth book bags by hand. Teach you how to make a convenient book bag.

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