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- The first thing I'm gonna do

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is cut off strips of fabric from my fat quarter

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and save them for the drawstrings

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which I'll do later.

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I've taken both of my fat quarters

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and I've lined them up and I've stacked them.

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And, I'm gonna cut off, starting here at the selvage edge,

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and obviously this selvage is where the

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sort of label of the fabric is,

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you know, where all the information

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about who designed it is,

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that's the selvage.

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But then this one doesn't have anything on it,

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but if you flip it you can see that it is a finished edge,

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so that's what we call the selvage.

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So what I'll do is I'll line up the edge

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using my mat I'll line up this edge

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right with one of the lines, just like that.

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And I'm going to cut one and a half inch strips, okay.

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So I'm using the lines of my ruler here,

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so one and a half is there,

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and I'll line it up here at the top as well.

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And cut all the way through.

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Okay.

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And now I have two pieces.

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Now, this isn't going to be long enough for my drawstring

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so what I'm gonna do now is I'll cut the same width of strip

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from the length of the fabric.

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In order to do that I'm gonna turn my mat.

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I know they're not totally lined up so I'll adjust,

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it just takes a little finesse here.

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And, again, we are cutting the entire length here,

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and we're using a one and a half inch strip,

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so let's find one and a half.

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There we are.

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And we'll just cut this length.

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And now we have two more strips,

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and we are actually going to set those aside

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to use later.

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The next step is to create a top hem for our drawstring bag.

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And I'm gonna take one of my rectangles

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and using my iron,

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you see how my rectangle is obviously shorter in width,

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so I consider this to be the top of my drawstring bag.

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And the first step is to fold down

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about a quarter of an inch along the whole edge,

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and then using my iron I'm going to press this seam down.

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And it's an estimate,

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it doesn't have to be an exact quarter inch, okay.

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And then, I think I'll turn this

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because my next step is to do the same quarter inch

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but not along the entire edge.

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I'm gonna say that I will do this for a little more

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than maybe four inches.

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So, let me just use my ruler here and see.

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Yeah, so this is about good, maybe five inches.

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And I'll just press that down.

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This is just creating a nice finished edge.

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And then I'll do the exact same thing on the other side.

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It's about a quarter inch, and about four to five inches,

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all the way down.

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So, do that.

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Okay.

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And our next fold down will be

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to fold this down

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and now this is the point where you wanna

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just make sure that the two sides are gonna be consistent,

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and in order to do that I just like to make sure

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it's an exact two inches.

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Okay, so from this edge to the top edge, two inches.

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And I'll actually grab a pin

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just to hold that in place.

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Okay.

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And we'll go to the other side

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and see again if it's two inches.

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It looks about perfect.

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Use another pin and then I'll just press this edge

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at the top.

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Okay.

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You're gonna go ahead and do the exact same thing

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with the other rectangle,

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and I have mine here already done.

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And our next step is to sew the drawstring pathway

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using two straight seams.

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My first seam is going to be along this bottom edge

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and where the pin is.

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So let's take this over, let's take our pin out.

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And I'm gonna start with a good back stitch.

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And I'm gonna use a quarter inch seam allowance,

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you can also just follow the edge of your presser foot

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with the edge of this folded seam,

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it's a really good way of keeping it straight.

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And again, we start with a back stitch

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because this seam is gonna get a lot of wear and tear

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because it's where the drawstrings are.

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And then just go straight down,

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following this edge here.

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(machine whirring)

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And then again once we come to the edge, the other edge,

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we'll remove our pin

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and also we're gonna make sure to do a good back stitch.

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Our next seam,

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we've just done this one over here on the left,

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and our next seam is gonna be approximately an inch

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from the top edge.

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And on my machine I have these little grid lines here,

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and if you have those too that's great.

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If not, you can always mark this line.

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And I like to use this first little notch

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on my plate here,

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and line up the edge of my fabric right with that line

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throughout the whole seam.

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And in turns of sewing,

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it's gonna be exactly like the other seam.

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So I'll start off with a back stitch.

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And then straight down following this edge.

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(machine whirring)

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And again it doesn't have to be entirely perfect.

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(machine whirring)

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And then again we'll end with another back stitch.

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Okay.

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Go ahead and do the exact same thing

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for your other rectangle.