Today we sew a bag of leather and woolen fabric, decorate it with tassels and beads, and we use old belts for handles and fasteners.
Size 35 x 45 cm
YOU WILL NEED Woolen fabric in a transverse strip 0.40 m wide 120 cm; genuine nappa leather with a total area of approx. 4 sq. ft (1 skin) (1 sq. ft. = 30 x 30 cm) or: synthetic leather 0.35 m wide 140 cm; lining fabric 0.40 m wide 140 cm; Decovil I non-woven flap measuring 30 x 30 cm, 2 old belts 4 cm and 5 cm wide; remnants of wool yarn for brushes; 90 small beads.
Allowances: For seams and cuts - 1 cm.
CUT
Striped wool fabric:
Detail of a bag 94 cm wide and 34 cm high.
Genuine nappa leather:
1 round bottom of the bag with a diameter of 30 cm;
upper bar 94 cm long and 4 cm wide, 2 cm in finished form;
lower bar 94 cm long and 8 cm wide.
From lining fabric:
Detail of a bag 94 cm wide and 34 cm high;
1 round bottom of the bag with a diameter of 30 cm.
Gasket: Decovil non-woven fabric for the bag, cut out without allowances and ironed from the wrong side of the leather bottom part.
SEWING
■ Place the bottom strip along the bottom cut of the bag part. Tighten the upper section of the strap and sew on the part of the bag. Stitch the bottom slice of the strap to the allowances along the bottom slice of the bag part close to the marked seam line. Fold the bag detail with the front side inwards, grind the side sections. Iron seam allowances.Stitch the bottom to the bag part with the front side facing the front side. On the lining, sew seams. Insert the lining in the bag with the wrong side to the wrong side, sweep the upper sections.
■ Stitch short sections on the upper bar. Stitch the upper bar to the upper cut of the bag. Iron seam allowances onto the bar. Fold the bar along in half with the front side inwards. On the front side, stitch the bar along the seam of the stitching close to the seam and along the upper edge to the edge.
■ For a bag handle, cut a 4 cm wide belt at a distance of approx. 15 cm from the buckle. Fasten the buckle. Stitch the ends of the belt to the side seams at a distance of approx. 9 cm from the top of the bag along the perimeter of the quadrangle and crosswise.
■ To fasten another belt, cut at a distance of approx. 10 cm from the buckle. On a belt with a buckle fastened, measure 32 cm, cut the belt. Stitch a section with a buckle on the front side of the bag (in the middle) at a distance of approx. 14 cm below the top of the bag around the perimeter of the quadrangle and crosswise. Stitch another segment on the back of the bag at a distance of approx. 6 cm below the top of the bag.
■ For cardboard brushes, make a template with a width of approx. 5 cm, you can also use a ruler of the desired width. Woolen thread tightly wrap around the pattern. The thickness of the brush depends on the number of turns. Carefully pull the coils from the template, tighten with a thread on one side, the thread should not be very short, since the brush will be sewn with the same thread. Tie the brush below with another thread, tie the ends of the thread. Cut the coils at the other end of the brush.Fold the ends of the thread for sewing together, string 3 beads on them.
■ Sew the brushes on the front side of the bag as follows: at the seam of the upper strap, on both sides of the fastener, 3 pairs of brushes at intervals of 7 cm each; below, sew 3 brushes close to each other in random order. To do this, pull the ends of the threads for sewing on each brush with a thicker needle to the wrong side, tightly tie the ends of the thread from the wrong side.
■ Make 2 brushes of approx. 12 cm. At the same time, 4 strands of approx. Put 100 cm next to each other, then weave a braid from these threads. Tie the braid to the buckle.
Material prepared by Elena Karpova
