For a trip to the sea beach during your vacation or weekly picnics on the city beach, you can not do without a beach bag. And it is better if there are several of them. Why? Because the program for the day can be different. It’s one thing to go to sea for a couple of hours and quite another to lay down everything you need for a picnic. In the latter case, you can not do without a bag over your shoulder. Women's beach bags, as a rule, have two long handles, but you can also make one.
We select material
If you want to make beach bags with your own hands, then first decide on the material. Designers from developed countries have long envied the craftsmanship and creativity of our needlewomen. What material is not allowed into the important business of creating bags for the beach is our beautiful half. For most of the fabrics do not have to run to the store. Almost all of them are from the category of "what is at hand." Towels and pillowcases, rigging cotton belts and plastic bottles, building nets and shower curtains, T-shirts and even graduation dresses.
Of course, you can purchase them at any accessories store. But do not spend money on beach bags. You can sew them with your own hands in just a couple of hours. Shake unnecessary items sent to the pantry or mezzanine. Get anything that might come in handy. Old t-shirt? Excellent. And this grid, remaining after the repair work, is also suitable. And with this old handbag, you may need rings on the handles. Etc. Do not limit imagination. It is she, as well as your skillful hands that will set you apart from the beach crowd.
We sew two do-it-yourself beach bags
Very simple
An old T-shirt, a calico pillowcase, thread, scissors and a sewing machine - that’s all we need. The good news is that you don’t have to rip anything. Put the t-shirt on the pillowcase and draw a rectangle so that the picture does not fall under the cut. Secure with studs and cut. Fold the knitted and calico parts with the front sides. Get off. Turn and lay the finishing seam. Fold the processed parts - the front and back seamy sides and sew, departing from the edge of 0.7-1 cm. Turn and sew again, departing 1.2-1.5 cm. Cut a rectangle from the pillowcase rests, glue it with glue and sew a long handle. Sew it to the side seams with double stitches.
Roomy and almost weightless
The second item of our project “We sew bags with our own hands” is a product made of plastic mesh.
Cut out several rectangles of cotton fabric: 1 wide for finishing the bottom of the bag, 2 for turning the upper edge of the bag and 2 for handles and one large one from the net, iron the hem on them;
Glue the handles with special tape;
Place the bottom trim detail exactly in the center of the grid and stitch it;
Sew on the top of the bag;
Sew the pens and sew them to the edges;
Fold the almost-assembled bag with its front sides. Look, you might want to make curly sides. Trim to your liking. A bag can either expand to the bottom or narrow;
Stitch the parts of the bag fixed with pins. Treat the stock for beauty and reliability with an oblique trim.
That's all, two do-it-yourself beach bags are ready to go out.