The rise of handmade products stems from people’s nostalgia for childhood and yearning for a better life. With the continuous improvement of people’s cultural and living standards and the increasing requirements for spiritual and cultural life, handmade products, creative DIY, etc. Related hobbies and interests are becoming more and more widespread, and more and more people are beginning to think about how to integrate handmade DIY into their lives. Next, the editor of the production department will introduce to you how to make a simple and easy-to-operate cotton and linen flip-top bag. Lets learn together with the editor of the production department. Teach you how to make handmade cotton and linen flip-top handmade bags.
Tutorial on making flip-top cotton and linen bags
- Prepare the fabric. Cut a rectangular piece of plaid cotton and linen fabric and the same size lining fabric
- Align the overlaps, sew the upper tops together, and set the edge distance to 1 cm. (red line)
- After sewing, turn it back to the front and iron it neatly with an ironing machine.
- Fold the ends inward about 1 cm and iron.
- Draw the shape of the lid. We will sew the lid into a trapezoid shape. (red line)
For reference, the picture below shows the lid part drawn as a triangle with a base of about 4 cm (red dotted line).
- Sew the red lines on both sides. (red line)
- Only sew the fabric at the cover position, do not sew at the red line.
- The positive effect is as shown below.
- This way, the sides are sewn separately.
- As shown below, sew about 4 cm of the corners. Place each seam on the outside.
- We cut off the extra seam allowance (lid and gusset).
- Turn him back to his front.
- Seam and turn back. Sew a seam again around the edge of the lid.
- Fix the Velcro in place.
- The flip-top cotton and linen bag is completed. This is where I will introduce you to how to make cotton and linen flip-top bags.
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