Lauren Holloway’s everyday handbag design is stylish yet roomy enough to hold all your essentials
PACK INCLUDES
■✁✁Pattern sheet x1
■✁✁Instruction sheet
YOU WILL NEED
■✁✁Main outer fabric: 40x80cm
■✁✁Contrast fabric: 40x30cm
■✁✁Lining fabric: 40x110cm
■✁✁Curtain bonded cotton lining: 40x80cm
■✁✁Medium weight interfacing: 40x30cm
■✁✁Metal zip: 30cm
■✁✁D-rings, 25mm: two
■✁✁Cotton webbing, 25mm wide: 2m
■✁Buckle slider: 25mm
■✁✁Lobster or trigger clasps, 25mm: two
■✁✁Magnetic clasp: 25mm
■✁✁Zip foot
■✁✁Craft knife
NOTES
■✁✁Seam allowance is 8mm, unless
otherwise stated.
MATERIALS USED
■✁✁Main body: Mind the Maker Organic
Washed Cotton Canvas in Mustard
from minerva.com
■✁✁Outer pocket: Kokka Cotton Linen
Canvas in Coral & Indigo from
minerva.com
■✁✁Main bag lining: 100% cotton in taupe
■✁✁Zip: No.5 metal zip in antique brass
■✁✁Strap, 25mm wide: 2-3mm heavyweight cotton webbing in navy
■✁✁Clasps: 25mm antique brass trigger clips
■✁✁Buckle slider, D-rings and magnetic
snap: 25mm: antique brass
STITCHING TERMS
RS/WS: Right side/wrong side of the fabric. The right side usually has the print, design or texture and the wrong side is usually plain or duller in appearance.
Machine tack: Use a long stitch length to hold a section in place. Don’t backstitch at the start and end.
Trim the seams: Trimming the seams down reduces bulk. This is especially important in bag making as multiple layers of fabric/interfacing/foam can create bulky seams when sewn together. Be careful not to trim too close to the stitch line in case the fabric frays a little.
Finish the seams: Finish the raw edges with a zigzag stitch or an overlocker.
Press: Pressing fabric is placing the iron down, holding it for a few seconds, lifting it and placing it down again. Ironing is the movement of sliding the iron back and forth to remove creases.
Topstitch: Stitching, usually from the right side of the garment, to hold seam allowances in place, or can be used for decorative purposes.
Toile: A test garment, often made from calico or muslin, to check the fit or test a pattern before the real fabric is used. Known as a muslin in the US.
For more sewing terms, visit gathered.how/sewing-glossary
CUTTING OUT
Step one From the main fabric cut: Main Body (A): two
