How to sew a bag with your own hands from fabric. DIY summer bag made of fabric

Want to learn how to sew a bag with your own hands out of fabric? Read tips, step by step instructions. Choose your favorite options. You can easily make a fashion accessory yourself from improvised materials.

The easiest bag

Even a beginner will cope with such a task. To sew this accessory, you will need fabric for the bag itself and for the pens. They are made both from the same and contrasting material. Suitable and special reinforced cords or tapes, which are used for seat belts. Patterns of bags made of fabric are both complex and simple. The manufacturing technology is as follows:

1. Cut two identical rectangles from the fabric. If the material is large, and not in residues, then bend it in half beforehand and make one large blank. The fold place will be the bottom of the bag.
2. If you do not have ready-made pens, sew them yourself from the same fabric. To make such a strap, cut a strip of double width or a couple of individual desired size. Do not forget about seam allowances. Sew the strips from the inside and twist. You will get a belt. Iron the edges. Make the second similar part in the same way.
3. Sew one edge of the handle to the right place first on the front side of the bag parts. Do the same with the second end. You should get a loop handle.
4. Do a hem of the edge of the bag part by 3-5 cm, sew it. Handles will be attached to it. If you are going to carry a lot of heavy things in your bag, you need to sew them tightly, therefore it is better to make the bend wider. Attach the handle to the bend around the perimeter of the rectangle and its diagonals. Now everything will hold tight and will not come off. Do the same with the second strap. By the way, you can attach to the usual seam or zigzag. The second will be more reliable and at the same time will fix the edges.
5. Sew the main parts of the bag on the sides with a fold line at the bottom or on three sides if the bag is made of two parts.

The easiest option is ready.

You can make an additional bottom and sidewall connections in the form of rectangles, that is, your bag will resemble a fabric suitcase. Accordingly, you will have to complete more seams.

DIY summer bag made of fabric

Another simple idea is to sew a product from a T-shirt that you don’t wear or did not wear at all.

Manufacturing technology will be as follows:

1. Cut off all the labels from the shirt if it is new.
   
   Turn inside out and fold so that the straps are located like a ring of handles of a future bag.
   
2. Fold the bottom to the handles and fasten the fabric with pins or basting thread. Out of these bends, inside pockets will be made.
3. Stitch the product on three sides and additionally in the center make a seam on the pockets so that there are two on each side.
4. Turn the bag on the front side. You can iron the edges.

We use old books as a basis

The ideas for a hand-made bag are very diverse.
As a basis, you can use not only old T-shirts, but even the cover of the book.

The bag from the cover is made as follows:

1. Take the unwanted hardback book. Gently cut the block of pages with a knife. You do not need it in this case.
2. From the fabric, make two rectangles for the sidewalls or one common for the entire design of the bag. Do not forget about seam allowances.
3. You will also need two triangular (trapezoidal) patches for the "ends" of the bag, hand straps and fastener elements.
4. When everything you need is prepared, apply cardboard binding to the fabric. The protruding edges are bent inward and glued to the base.
5. Sew or fasten handles and fastener elements in any other way.
6. Glue the inside of the bag, that is, the lining. It may be from the same material or from another.
7. Sew on the side triangles.

The bag is ready.

We use boxes

The original version of a small handbag can be made from ordinary tea boxes or any other. They will need two. One for the base and lining, the second for the outside.

If the front part is not covered with a cloth, the surface of the box should be beautiful. Both blanks must be taken equal in size. If you don’t have one, it’s easy to make the inside the size of the outside of cardboard or heavy paper. So get to work. Your actions should be as follows:

1. Open the first box until flat. Remove excess parts. You only need a bottom, four sides and a cover. The cardboard box needs to be slightly reduced by cutting along the edges so that it then fits inside the second box.
2. Cut a piece of fabric according to the shape and size of the workpiece, taking into account allowances for bends.
3. Lay the fabric on a cardboard base, wrap the edges inward and glue it. Fold the box so that the fabric is inside.
4. Insert the lining into the second box.
5. Attach handles or a long chain, as well as a loop and a bead for the clasp.
6. Glue the space between the two layers of the bag.

If you do not have a beautiful box that can be used as the front side of the product, you will have to tighten the second box with fabric, having previously unrolled it.

How to sew a do-it-yourself shopping bag

Here's a simple way to make a stylish shopping bag with which you can go to the market or to the grocery store. It is made from an old T-shirt or t-shirt.

The material should be stretchable. Do the following:

1. Put the t-shirt in front of you vertically with the collar up. Cut a large rectangle with a rounded bottom out of it.
2. Turn inside out and stitch the arc. Use a zigzag seam or overlay the edges separately. The side seams of the bag remain factory.
3. Using a pencil and a ruler, draw a strip at the top of the workpiece in the middle of the horizontal. There will be a slot-handle. Do it with scissors on both layers of fabric.
4. Apply a pattern of horizontal dashed lines to the entire bag. You can arrange them randomly or according to a certain pattern.
   
5. According to the drawn scheme, cut with sharp scissors on two layers of fabric.

All is ready.

Decor for bags and updating old models

Now you know how to sew a bag with your own hands from a fabric, and you can do it. However, you should think about the decor.

Even the simplest thing, originally decorated, will look spectacular and stylish. Elements from satin ribbons using the kanzashi technique and flowers made from felt look very beautiful. You can glue the surface with rhinestones, sew sequins, make embroidery with beads or ribbons. If you like needlework, then you probably did something similar.

Despite the fact that you learned how to sew a bag with your own hands out of fabric, you may not want to do this. Remember that you can always use the upgrade options for old finished products. It is easiest to do this with the help of decor, but staining will help to radically change the appearance of a thing. Acrylic is suitable for a leather product. To make a drawing on the bag, you need to use stencils cut from the film, or ordinary tape. They can be glued vertically or horizontally sections of the bag. Uncoated paint in a contrast to the old tone color. After drying, remove the adhesive tape and cover the product with skin varnish. The effect will surprise you.

So, you have learned how to sew a bag with your own hands out of fabric. Choose any model you like for your decor and create your own fashion accessory. And if there is absolutely no time for needlework, just upgrade your old bag with the proposed methods.