How to sew a bag with your own hands?

To sew a bag with your own hands, You can use almost any material available: denim or other dense fabric, skin,suede, fur, knitwear, etc. Different ribbons, straps, beads, beads are suitable for decorating the bag, you can also decorate the bag with embroidery or applique. It is important not to forget about suitable accessories for bags: "lightning", rivets, chains, etc.

The basic stages of making bags by their own hands include the preparation of patterns for the bag, cuttingfabric and cutting the lining, preparing pens or straps, sewing all the details of the bag together, sewing "lightning", decorating the bag. You can sew your own handbag with an abundance of internal and external pockets, and you can do without pockets at all.

The easiest version of the bag with your own hands Is a bag of folded in half a rectangletissue. It is enough to cut out a rectangle of the right size from the fabric, fold it in half and sew together the sides. The bag is almost ready, it remains only to attach suitable handles to it. If necessary, you can also sew in the bag "zipper".

Yet it is very easy to sew a bag with your own hands from just 5 simple parts. It will take two square or widerectangular pieces of material for the front and back walls of the bag, 2 narrow rectangular pieces for the side walls and another 1 narrow rectangle for the bottom. The material must be cut considering allowances for seams.

To sew a bag by own hands it is possible to use besides rectangular patterns and other patterns. For example, great looking trapezoid shaped bags. All the difference of such a bag from the above is in the form of the front and side walls of the bag: they are not rectangles, but trapeziums.

If the bottom for a trapezoidal bag is made not rectangular, but, for example, in the form of a long oval, you can get a new design of the bag with your own hands. By the way, that the bottom of the bag was tight and did not bend under the weight of the contents of the bag, you can "duplicate" the bottom preparation with plastic also.

For this, instead of 1 cut-out part forbottom make two, and also from dense plastic in size and shape of the bottom of the bag to cut the workpiece. Having combined the "sandwich" from the fabric, plastic and again the fabric, you need to sew the workpiece. Further, the bottom can be connected to the rest of the bag.

How else can you sew a bag with your own hands? The variant of the "cylindrical" bag can be approached: it is also very easy to sew. It will take 1 large rectangular piece of material to form the front wall, the back wall, as well as the bottom of the bag and 2 more round parts for making the side walls of the bag. For stiffening the round side parts of the bag, you can duplicate them with plastic, as in the case with the bottom.

The above variants of making handbags by oneself are only a very small part of those opportunities that open before the needlewomen. Having manifested a fantasy, sew handbag you can almost from any improvised materials. The result will certainly please with its originality and personality!