1 00:00:00,796 --> 00:00:03,663 - Now it's time to sew together the sides of our bag. 2 00:00:03,663 --> 00:00:07,830 And in order to do that, we take right sides together 3 00:00:08,442 --> 00:00:12,349 but because I'm gonna show you a really cool French seam, 4 00:00:12,349 --> 00:00:15,361 the first thing with a French seam is that we actually take 5 00:00:15,361 --> 00:00:18,193 wrong sides and put them together. 6 00:00:18,210 --> 00:00:22,378 And I'm gonna pin around the edge, especially up here 7 00:00:22,577 --> 00:00:25,167 at the top, I want to make sure that these two 8 00:00:25,167 --> 00:00:29,192 are pretty lined up, especially where that draw string 9 00:00:29,192 --> 00:00:32,524 pathway is, so I'm gonna use a pin here. 10 00:00:35,551 --> 00:00:38,892 And then I'll pin on the exact same location on the 11 00:00:38,892 --> 00:00:42,482 other side, just to make sure that my draw string 12 00:00:42,482 --> 00:00:44,316 pathways are lined up. 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,055 And then I'm also gonna place a few pins around 14 00:00:49,055 --> 00:00:50,889 the edge here as well. 15 00:00:53,457 --> 00:00:54,457 For example, 16 00:00:55,448 --> 00:00:57,115 maybe one over here. 17 00:00:59,603 --> 00:01:01,686 Maybe one at each corner. 18 00:01:05,841 --> 00:01:08,941 And this is also a good time to check that our bottom 19 00:01:08,941 --> 00:01:10,524 edges are lined up. 20 00:01:11,870 --> 00:01:14,881 So this one actually looks like, you know, for whatever 21 00:01:14,881 --> 00:01:17,685 reason we have one side that's a little longer, 22 00:01:17,685 --> 00:01:19,018 but that's okay. 23 00:01:21,813 --> 00:01:24,896 We'll use another pin on this corner. 24 00:01:26,364 --> 00:01:29,197 And then another one on this side. 25 00:01:30,661 --> 00:01:33,367 And we'll be ready to take it to the sewing machine now. 26 00:01:33,367 --> 00:01:35,652 The first thing that I'll do, even though it's really not 27 00:01:35,652 --> 00:01:38,968 connected to the French seam but important for the finishing 28 00:01:38,968 --> 00:01:42,694 of the bag, is I'm gonna actually stitch shut this one 29 00:01:42,694 --> 00:01:44,861 inch seam here at the top. 30 00:01:45,718 --> 00:01:49,885 So between the top edge and the draw string pathway. 31 00:01:50,856 --> 00:01:54,016 And I'm gonna use about a quarter inch inseam but maybe 32 00:01:54,016 --> 00:01:55,599 even a little less. 33 00:01:55,881 --> 00:01:59,605 And what I'm gonna do is start about a quarter inch 34 00:01:59,605 --> 00:02:02,272 from the top with a back stitch. 35 00:02:03,296 --> 00:02:07,463 Again, we want to make sure these are really reinforced. 36 00:02:09,024 --> 00:02:11,774 And then I'm gonna continue down. 37 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:15,276 And make sure you do not cross over this line here, 38 00:02:15,276 --> 00:02:19,443 whatever we do, we don't want to seal this pathway, 39 00:02:21,063 --> 00:02:24,667 because that's where our draw strings will go. 40 00:02:24,667 --> 00:02:28,592 And right when I get to that stitch I'll back stitch. 41 00:02:28,592 --> 00:02:31,075 And I might even go just back to where I started, 42 00:02:31,075 --> 00:02:32,281 and then I'm done. 43 00:02:32,281 --> 00:02:34,683 So you see what I did here is I stitched all the way up 44 00:02:34,683 --> 00:02:37,915 until this line, which is where the pathway starts, 45 00:02:37,915 --> 00:02:40,199 but not crossing over into it because I want to make sure 46 00:02:40,199 --> 00:02:42,943 that this is left open for my draw string, 47 00:02:42,943 --> 00:02:46,860 and then I back stitched up to where I started. 48 00:02:58,427 --> 00:03:00,473 I just did the same thing to my other top edge 49 00:03:00,473 --> 00:03:03,728 and now I'm ready to work on my French seam. 50 00:03:03,728 --> 00:03:06,788 In order to start my French seam what I'll do is you can see 51 00:03:06,788 --> 00:03:10,782 how where we had ironed this under, we can actually 52 00:03:10,782 --> 00:03:14,949 pull, I kind of want to pull it, unfold it, and pull 53 00:03:15,024 --> 00:03:17,024 it out as much as I can. 54 00:03:17,301 --> 00:03:20,515 And the cool thing about the French seam is that you're 55 00:03:20,515 --> 00:03:23,557 gonna actually hide this raw edge that you've sewn. 56 00:03:23,557 --> 00:03:26,375 I want to make sure I give it as small of a seam allowance 57 00:03:26,375 --> 00:03:30,247 as I can, making sure I sew through both layers of fabric. 58 00:03:30,247 --> 00:03:34,015 So I'm gonna use probably even less than a quarter inch 59 00:03:34,015 --> 00:03:36,182 seam allowance when I can. 60 00:03:36,695 --> 00:03:39,246 And I'll show you what I mean by that. 61 00:03:39,246 --> 00:03:42,308 So I'm gonna start sewing along this edge. 62 00:03:42,308 --> 00:03:44,050 And you can see I have less than a quarter inch 63 00:03:44,050 --> 00:03:47,324 seam allowance because this edge of my presser foot is 64 00:03:47,324 --> 00:03:51,371 a quarter inch, and I want to check, see these are perfectly 65 00:03:51,371 --> 00:03:55,538 lined up so I'm good with the seam allowance how it is. 66 00:03:55,931 --> 00:04:00,098 But if you noticed, for example, that one of your layers 67 00:04:01,276 --> 00:04:04,649 of fabric was a little bit smaller, you would have to kind 68 00:04:04,649 --> 00:04:07,894 of make up for that to make sure that you're sewing 69 00:04:07,894 --> 00:04:09,823 through both layers, okay? 70 00:04:09,823 --> 00:04:13,049 So you've just gotta kind of keep checking. 71 00:04:13,049 --> 00:04:15,604 Keep checking as you sew to make sure that you're gonna be 72 00:04:15,604 --> 00:04:17,771 going through both layers. 73 00:04:22,129 --> 00:04:24,800 Take your pin out when you get to one. 74 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,939 And see how I'm kind of coming up on a place where this 75 00:04:26,939 --> 00:04:29,107 top layer is a little bit, 76 00:04:30,529 --> 00:04:34,274 bigger, and I can kind of move that over if I wanted to. 77 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:38,440 Or I could make my seam allowance a little bit wider. 78 00:04:44,999 --> 00:04:47,581 And I'm coming up to my corner. 79 00:04:48,550 --> 00:04:52,716 And I'll just look, I'm okay with my seam allowance. 80 00:05:02,127 --> 00:05:04,161 And then at your corner, obviously you'll turn and 81 00:05:04,161 --> 00:05:07,329 continue with the same seam allowance. 82 00:05:08,624 --> 00:05:12,208 I remember noticing that my bottom layer of fabric was 83 00:05:12,208 --> 00:05:16,375 a little smaller, which it looks like it evened itself out. 84 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:20,319 So I'm gonna keep going. 85 00:05:27,209 --> 00:05:30,678 Looks like maybe towards the other edge we have a little 86 00:05:30,678 --> 00:05:32,846 bit of a discrepancy here. 87 00:05:39,596 --> 00:05:41,930 So let's keep checking here. 88 00:05:42,437 --> 00:05:45,605 I'm just gonna kind of move this over. 89 00:05:49,675 --> 00:05:51,007 Take my pin out. 90 00:05:52,624 --> 00:05:55,040 Make sure these are lined up. 91 00:05:58,975 --> 00:05:59,807 And, 92 00:06:03,290 --> 00:06:05,706 I'm gonna, to my last corner. 93 00:06:09,750 --> 00:06:13,583 And now let's see about this edge, looks good. 94 00:06:34,550 --> 00:06:36,632 Okay, and then I'm gonna, 95 00:06:36,855 --> 00:06:39,461 once I get to this edge here I'm gonna pull this seam 96 00:06:39,461 --> 00:06:42,877 back, unfold it from where we pressed it. 97 00:06:52,826 --> 00:06:54,326 And then I'm done! 98 00:06:54,545 --> 00:06:57,410 Now I'm gonna trim the edges, and the reason why I want 99 00:06:57,410 --> 00:07:00,293 to make sure I do that is so that when I complete my 100 00:07:00,293 --> 00:07:03,391 French seam I don't have little threads poking through 101 00:07:03,391 --> 00:07:04,641 to the outside. 102 00:07:05,011 --> 00:07:07,264 So you can see how there are all of these sort of rogue 103 00:07:07,264 --> 00:07:09,526 threads all around the edge, and those will definitely 104 00:07:09,526 --> 00:07:13,694 go through to the finished edge so let's trim them all. 105 00:07:14,653 --> 00:07:18,233 And you know, I actually can take away some of the fabric 106 00:07:18,233 --> 00:07:22,399 too, as long as I am not cutting over that seam that 107 00:07:23,797 --> 00:07:27,963 I just did because that would obviously create a hole. 108 00:07:33,107 --> 00:07:36,230 And then here at the corner as well, I might actually just 109 00:07:36,230 --> 00:07:38,646 get rid of that whole corner. 110 00:07:40,290 --> 00:07:42,872 And I'm gonna turn my bag here. 111 00:07:46,298 --> 00:07:49,920 And then continue to, you can see like, sometimes these 112 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,488 threads get kind of stuck in that seam as well, so we can 113 00:07:53,488 --> 00:07:56,906 just use a pin to kind of pull those out. 114 00:07:59,281 --> 00:08:03,115 Because those, we don't want to be seen again. 115 00:08:03,579 --> 00:08:05,411 They're just annoying. 116 00:08:06,793 --> 00:08:07,627 Okay. 117 00:08:15,173 --> 00:08:16,591 We're good there. 118 00:08:19,076 --> 00:08:20,944 I'm gonna actually trim some of this. 119 00:08:20,944 --> 00:08:23,026 And again at that corner, 120 00:08:24,446 --> 00:08:27,362 we'll get rid of that whole corner. 121 00:08:32,423 --> 00:08:35,256 And then we'll do this third edge. 122 00:08:47,601 --> 00:08:50,504 And then up here I think there's a bunch. 123 00:08:50,504 --> 00:08:52,876 Yep, see how they were hidden? 124 00:08:52,876 --> 00:08:55,626 Let's make sure we get all those. 125 00:08:56,470 --> 00:08:59,163 All right, now we're gonna turn this bag inside out, 126 00:08:59,163 --> 00:09:01,496 we'll remove our pins first. 127 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,309 And we'll also be using our iron. 128 00:09:06,092 --> 00:09:07,509 So we'll turn it. 129 00:09:09,969 --> 00:09:13,719 And, using just my fingers is fine, I'm gonna 130 00:09:15,505 --> 00:09:18,923 pull, poke this seam as far out as I can. 131 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,220 And we'll use the iron here, and I'll go around the whole 132 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:30,089 edge and just, with my fingers, kind of flattening out 133 00:09:30,089 --> 00:09:33,422 and making sure this edge gets flattened 134 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,879 as much as possible, we don't want to lose any of this 135 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:41,546 seam allowance here. 136 00:09:45,076 --> 00:09:49,244 It'll really make our French seam much more polished. 137 00:09:51,206 --> 00:09:54,956 Flatten that edge, and then I'll turn my bag. 138 00:09:55,682 --> 00:09:58,708 You'll go ahead and iron around all three sides of the bag, 139 00:09:58,708 --> 00:10:01,477 and then we'll be ready to sew our last seam 140 00:10:01,477 --> 00:10:02,759 in our French seam. 141 00:10:02,759 --> 00:10:04,676 We're gonna sew all the way around the edge starting at 142 00:10:04,676 --> 00:10:08,179 the bottom seam of the draw string pathway, and remember 143 00:10:08,179 --> 00:10:11,917 how we used less than a quarter inch for that first seam 144 00:10:11,917 --> 00:10:16,083 in our French seam, and so for this seam I'm gonna probably 145 00:10:16,653 --> 00:10:20,821 go with a five eighths or even, you know, a little smaller. 146 00:10:21,764 --> 00:10:24,836 And again, my machine has these lines marked. 147 00:10:24,836 --> 00:10:27,410 I'm gonna go between three eighths and five eighths, 148 00:10:27,410 --> 00:10:29,413 I believe, is what I'm gonna choose. 149 00:10:29,413 --> 00:10:32,201 But it's really up to you, the main idea is that you can 150 00:10:32,201 --> 00:10:36,369 feel with your finger where that seam is, and you do not 151 00:10:36,682 --> 00:10:39,701 want to get close to that, again because we want to hide 152 00:10:39,701 --> 00:10:43,869 that seam from the outside, so if you don't make up for 153 00:10:44,431 --> 00:10:47,389 that you'll have little threads poking through and probably 154 00:10:47,389 --> 00:10:50,749 be pretty sad, so make sure you keep that in mind, okay? 155 00:10:50,749 --> 00:10:53,999 And I'm gonna start with a back stitch. 156 00:10:57,738 --> 00:11:01,649 And then I will just continue on, and again I'm using this 157 00:11:01,649 --> 00:11:05,399 line as sort of a guide on my sewing machine. 158 00:11:08,649 --> 00:11:10,490 I'm like, a little bit bigger than a 159 00:11:10,490 --> 00:11:12,907 three eighths seam allowance. 160 00:11:33,615 --> 00:11:37,782 And then at my corner, let's make sure we leave enough. 161 00:11:39,395 --> 00:11:42,339 We can check, see that looks about good. 162 00:11:42,339 --> 00:11:44,732 I'll continue, it's the same, I'm at the same seam 163 00:11:44,732 --> 00:11:47,066 allowance that I had before. 164 00:11:53,696 --> 00:11:55,924 You're gonna go ahead and complete all three sides of 165 00:11:55,924 --> 00:11:58,919 this seam, making sure that you stop at the bottom edge 166 00:11:58,919 --> 00:12:01,605 of that pathway so that you don't sew through the opening 167 00:12:01,605 --> 00:12:03,438 for your draw strings.