1 00:00:00,846 --> 00:00:03,321 - Now we're gonna make drawstrings out of the strips 2 00:00:03,321 --> 00:00:06,708 of fabric that we cut from our original fat quarter. 3 00:00:06,708 --> 00:00:09,496 If you are gonna use ribbon, you can do that as well, 4 00:00:09,496 --> 00:00:12,183 but here I'm gonna show you how to make your own drawstring. 5 00:00:12,183 --> 00:00:14,409 Here I have the one and half-inch strips 6 00:00:14,409 --> 00:00:17,224 that I cut from my original fat quarter, 7 00:00:17,224 --> 00:00:21,278 and you'll remember that I cut two from the salvage edge, 8 00:00:21,278 --> 00:00:23,580 and then I cut these two from the length. 9 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:27,748 So we have a discrepancy in the length which is fine, 10 00:00:27,859 --> 00:00:30,785 but I'm actually gonna trim these long ones down 11 00:00:30,785 --> 00:00:34,654 because I'll then use these little squares, scraps, 12 00:00:34,654 --> 00:00:38,820 to actually make some end-pulls for my drawstring. 13 00:00:39,731 --> 00:00:42,033 So I'm gonna come over and cut them down. 14 00:00:42,033 --> 00:00:46,201 I can cut them just about as long as the salvage strips. 15 00:00:49,459 --> 00:00:51,375 I'm just gonna do that. 16 00:00:52,137 --> 00:00:54,319 And then, careful not to lose these, 17 00:00:54,319 --> 00:00:57,902 'cause I do wanna use those little squares. 18 00:00:59,143 --> 00:01:03,310 And now, I'm going to take one of the salvage strips, 19 00:01:04,807 --> 00:01:07,557 and one of the non-salvage strips 20 00:01:08,468 --> 00:01:11,385 and I'm going to sew them together. 21 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:14,757 And to do that, I'm actually going to 22 00:01:14,757 --> 00:01:17,257 cut them on a 45 degree angle. 23 00:01:17,507 --> 00:01:21,387 You can see that my cutting mat here has this line, 24 00:01:21,387 --> 00:01:24,242 which is a 45 degree angle, and I'm just gonna take 25 00:01:24,242 --> 00:01:27,409 both strips and line them up together. 26 00:01:28,888 --> 00:01:31,971 I'm gonna actually cut them together. 27 00:01:32,111 --> 00:01:34,361 Careful not to waste any fabric. 28 00:01:34,361 --> 00:01:37,025 So I'm gonna line up right at the edge of that, 29 00:01:37,025 --> 00:01:38,358 45 degree angle. 30 00:01:38,986 --> 00:01:40,319 Take my ruler... 31 00:01:42,826 --> 00:01:44,576 and my rotary cutter, 32 00:01:45,617 --> 00:01:48,700 and I'm just gonna cut both of these. 33 00:01:53,953 --> 00:01:57,787 Okay, and then I'm going to sew these together 34 00:02:00,661 --> 00:02:04,828 and to do that, you want to put the right sides together, 35 00:02:05,969 --> 00:02:08,062 and I'll use a quarter-inch seam allowance, 36 00:02:08,062 --> 00:02:11,677 but in order to that, I want to make sure I leave 37 00:02:11,677 --> 00:02:14,677 these little tabs on the edge, okay? 38 00:02:15,299 --> 00:02:19,466 If I sew them together end to end, it would not work out 39 00:02:19,913 --> 00:02:23,558 because I need to allow for a quarter-inch seam allowance. 40 00:02:23,558 --> 00:02:26,707 Okay, so take them and move them over slightly 41 00:02:26,707 --> 00:02:28,625 and leave these little tabs. 42 00:02:28,625 --> 00:02:32,008 And I'm gonna hold this in place with a pin 43 00:02:32,008 --> 00:02:34,925 before I take it over to the machine. 44 00:02:34,925 --> 00:02:38,758 I'm going to stitch these two pieces together. 45 00:02:40,293 --> 00:02:41,973 (sewing machine revving) 46 00:02:41,973 --> 00:02:44,306 Make sure I take my pin out. 47 00:02:46,606 --> 00:02:50,024 (sewing machine revving) 48 00:02:51,152 --> 00:02:52,127 And that's it. 49 00:02:52,127 --> 00:02:54,835 You're gonna sew the other strip together in the same way. 50 00:02:54,835 --> 00:02:58,032 And now we're gonna press open the seams. 51 00:02:58,032 --> 00:03:01,782 So I will take this seam, and with my finger, 52 00:03:01,873 --> 00:03:06,040 start pressing it open and then bring my iron over 53 00:03:06,605 --> 00:03:09,272 and just press it nice and flat. 54 00:03:09,641 --> 00:03:13,808 And then we'll do the exact same thing with the other one. 55 00:03:16,949 --> 00:03:20,128 Okay, and then at this point I'm also going to trim 56 00:03:20,128 --> 00:03:23,462 both this extra thread and this little tab 57 00:03:23,462 --> 00:03:27,045 just with a pair of scissors on both sides. 58 00:03:35,493 --> 00:03:36,326 Other one. 59 00:03:42,008 --> 00:03:45,175 And now we are ready to fold and press 60 00:03:47,081 --> 00:03:48,394 to make our drawstring. 61 00:03:48,394 --> 00:03:51,949 So starting, I like to start at this center seam, 62 00:03:51,949 --> 00:03:56,116 and I'm gonna fold in half, and then I'm gonna press 63 00:03:56,890 --> 00:03:58,807 down the entire length. 64 00:03:58,966 --> 00:04:02,549 And you can probably just start on one side 65 00:04:02,865 --> 00:04:07,032 and just line it up and press as you go all the way down. 66 00:04:08,433 --> 00:04:10,766 Move it down if you need to. 67 00:04:15,086 --> 00:04:18,504 And then come back and do the other side. 68 00:04:22,463 --> 00:04:25,963 And just, nice and easy, press it in half. 69 00:04:36,617 --> 00:04:40,201 And then, in order to hide these raw edges, 70 00:04:42,490 --> 00:04:44,490 we're gonna press again. 71 00:04:45,574 --> 00:04:46,755 This time we're gonna open it up 72 00:04:46,755 --> 00:04:50,923 and using this center crease that we have just created, 73 00:04:51,908 --> 00:04:54,742 I'm gonna actually take both sides 74 00:04:56,338 --> 00:04:57,755 and fold them in. 75 00:04:58,444 --> 00:05:00,540 And I'm gonna press as I go as well. 76 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:04,708 And now, be careful when you're pressing this salvaged edge, 77 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:08,908 it's pretty thick and it kind of resists pressing. 78 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,160 So just give it a few extra seconds. 79 00:05:16,367 --> 00:05:18,389 And we don't need to go all the way to the center, 80 00:05:18,389 --> 00:05:21,805 but you know, as close as you can get it. 81 00:05:22,432 --> 00:05:23,956 It doesn't have to be perfect. 82 00:05:23,956 --> 00:05:27,290 All the way down the edge on both sides. 83 00:05:37,338 --> 00:05:41,172 Okay ,and your fabric will heat up pretty hot. 84 00:05:41,271 --> 00:05:44,521 So be careful not to burn your fingers. 85 00:05:45,331 --> 00:05:49,249 Okay, and I'll come back and do the other side. 86 00:05:54,247 --> 00:05:56,872 And this side should be easier 'cause there's no salvage. 87 00:05:56,872 --> 00:05:59,872 So just bring it towards the center, 88 00:06:01,567 --> 00:06:04,733 and then once we get down to the edge, 89 00:06:05,848 --> 00:06:08,266 our last step for pressing is 90 00:06:10,363 --> 00:06:12,863 we're gonna press it together. 91 00:06:13,593 --> 00:06:17,052 And this might be not be a entirely necessary step 92 00:06:17,052 --> 00:06:20,509 because that crease will still be pretty intact 93 00:06:20,509 --> 00:06:22,759 but it's a good step to do. 94 00:06:25,846 --> 00:06:29,846 And then, especially this side with the salvage, 95 00:06:30,083 --> 00:06:32,915 again it likes to resist pressing. 96 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:36,680 Okay, and... 97 00:06:39,476 --> 00:06:41,476 This drawstring is done. 98 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,293 Now I'm gonna bring my drawstring over 99 00:06:44,293 --> 00:06:47,543 and just stitch down the entire length. 100 00:06:48,483 --> 00:06:51,612 And I'm gonna use just the edge as my guide. 101 00:06:51,612 --> 00:06:53,382 I'm not gonna sew entirely down the middle. 102 00:06:53,382 --> 00:06:57,464 I'm gonna sew a little bit more towards this side 103 00:06:57,706 --> 00:07:01,874 where the two seams are because I'd like to flatten that. 104 00:07:02,956 --> 00:07:05,158 (sewing machine revving) 105 00:07:05,158 --> 00:07:08,305 And I just like to use my fingers to make sure that 106 00:07:08,305 --> 00:07:12,473 it's all flat 'cause remember we pressed this shut. 107 00:07:13,168 --> 00:07:15,668 So you just want to make sure that it stays, 108 00:07:15,668 --> 00:07:17,644 sort of stays where it should be. 109 00:07:17,644 --> 00:07:21,060 (sewing machine revving) 110 00:07:22,985 --> 00:07:26,363 And every time that you kind of noticed that it's unfolded 111 00:07:26,363 --> 00:07:28,197 just use your fingers. 112 00:07:28,559 --> 00:07:31,975 (sewing machine revving) 113 00:07:49,244 --> 00:07:51,613 Now we're gonna insert our drawstrings in our bag. 114 00:07:51,613 --> 00:07:54,959 And this is the point that we're gonna use this loop turner. 115 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:57,709 This is one of my favorite tools. 116 00:07:58,168 --> 00:07:59,610 I like to use this for turning things 117 00:07:59,610 --> 00:08:01,132 and for poking corners and things. 118 00:08:01,132 --> 00:08:03,132 But the cool feature of this is that 119 00:08:03,132 --> 00:08:05,714 it has these two little things. 120 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,956 So you can either use this little grabby thing, 121 00:08:10,341 --> 00:08:11,781 I don't know what the real word is, 122 00:08:11,781 --> 00:08:13,286 but this little grabby thing, 123 00:08:13,286 --> 00:08:17,286 I think my drawstring is a little thick for that 124 00:08:18,372 --> 00:08:22,454 so I'm actually gonna thread it through this part 125 00:08:22,862 --> 00:08:27,028 and then just pull it down so it stays put right there. 126 00:08:29,305 --> 00:08:31,305 And then how we do this, 127 00:08:32,424 --> 00:08:34,373 we take one end of our bag, 128 00:08:34,373 --> 00:08:37,258 and because of the way that we've sewn this together, 129 00:08:37,258 --> 00:08:41,424 it's gonna be a little tricky to find exactly the pathway. 130 00:08:42,390 --> 00:08:45,210 So see how my finger goes through there? 131 00:08:45,210 --> 00:08:47,011 But we don't want it to go through the center. 132 00:08:47,011 --> 00:08:49,818 We want it to actually go down this pathway. 133 00:08:49,818 --> 00:08:52,087 So you're gonna have to use... 134 00:08:52,087 --> 00:08:55,587 Use your loop turner to find that pathway. 135 00:08:55,730 --> 00:08:59,062 And then, just start feeding it through. 136 00:08:59,124 --> 00:09:02,541 Careful not to pull too much on this end. 137 00:09:03,323 --> 00:09:04,240 And then... 138 00:09:05,722 --> 00:09:07,472 Bunching it slightly, 139 00:09:09,393 --> 00:09:11,335 you're gonna feed it through, 140 00:09:11,335 --> 00:09:14,751 and then once you get to this other side, 141 00:09:15,981 --> 00:09:19,890 it's gonna be a little bit tricky to fish this guy out. 142 00:09:19,890 --> 00:09:22,474 So just kind of use your finger 143 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,110 and help him find his way out into the world. 144 00:09:31,501 --> 00:09:34,009 This little guy, see how he's getting stuck on the seams? 145 00:09:34,009 --> 00:09:37,926 But that's okay, it'll just take a minute here. 146 00:09:39,871 --> 00:09:40,705 Or longer. 147 00:09:43,486 --> 00:09:44,533 There we go, okay. 148 00:09:44,533 --> 00:09:46,533 So, pulling him through. 149 00:09:50,332 --> 00:09:52,577 And now, don't pull him all the way through. 150 00:09:52,577 --> 00:09:55,077 Once the loop turner pops out, 151 00:09:55,668 --> 00:09:59,835 you're gonna feed directly back through on the other side. 152 00:10:00,412 --> 00:10:01,245 Okay. 153 00:10:02,511 --> 00:10:04,678 So find the other pathway, 154 00:10:08,409 --> 00:10:09,243 and... 155 00:10:10,119 --> 00:10:10,951 Woops! 156 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,312 I guess that might just take a minute. 157 00:10:14,312 --> 00:10:15,312 There we go. 158 00:10:15,581 --> 00:10:18,998 And we're gonna start feeding him through 159 00:10:19,998 --> 00:10:22,081 back to where we started. 160 00:10:26,130 --> 00:10:27,028 And same thing here, 161 00:10:27,028 --> 00:10:30,211 you're gonna get caught up in these little creases, 162 00:10:30,211 --> 00:10:32,879 in these little seam allowances. 163 00:10:33,336 --> 00:10:34,169 Persevere. 164 00:10:38,303 --> 00:10:40,471 It will be worth it, okay. 165 00:10:40,769 --> 00:10:44,186 And now, here's the payoff moment because 166 00:10:45,014 --> 00:10:48,347 you can pull him out of the loop turner. 167 00:10:49,841 --> 00:10:53,758 And now, we can kind of, grab both ends evenly. 168 00:10:56,710 --> 00:11:00,876 And now we have one of our drawstrings fed through. 169 00:11:02,389 --> 00:11:03,221 Okay. 170 00:11:05,017 --> 00:11:07,018 And we can just leave him be, 171 00:11:07,018 --> 00:11:10,548 and we're gonna do the same thing with the other drawstring. 172 00:11:10,548 --> 00:11:13,631 This time starting on the other side. 173 00:11:19,636 --> 00:11:21,283 You're pretty much at the end of your bag. 174 00:11:21,283 --> 00:11:25,283 The last thing to do is somehow close these ends 175 00:11:25,350 --> 00:11:26,243 of these drawstrings. 176 00:11:26,243 --> 00:11:30,409 So you could tie them into a knot, if you wanted to. 177 00:11:31,018 --> 00:11:34,600 I personally like to make my own end-pulls. 178 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:37,658 And you remember those little squares of fabric 179 00:11:37,658 --> 00:11:40,000 that you cut off of the original strip? 180 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,221 That's what I'm gonna use for my end-pull, 181 00:11:42,221 --> 00:11:44,451 and I'll show you how I'm gonna do that. 182 00:11:44,451 --> 00:11:47,046 So I'm gonna take one of my little squares here 183 00:11:47,046 --> 00:11:51,212 and one of my ends, and there's really no real formula. 184 00:11:51,312 --> 00:11:54,894 I like to kind of improv this, but I think I'll try to do 185 00:11:54,894 --> 00:11:57,462 a little triangle for this one. 186 00:11:57,462 --> 00:11:59,212 So I'm gonna fold in, 187 00:12:01,402 --> 00:12:03,576 and this is really where you can kind of get creative. 188 00:12:03,576 --> 00:12:07,743 But I think I'm gonna try for a triangle if I can. 189 00:12:08,139 --> 00:12:11,426 So I'm just using my fingers to kind of fold. 190 00:12:11,426 --> 00:12:13,676 Basically what I'm doing is 191 00:12:15,253 --> 00:12:19,253 hiding all of these raw edges in some way, okay. 192 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,288 Or as many of the raw edges as I want, or as I can. 193 00:12:24,798 --> 00:12:26,017 I don't know that I like this. 194 00:12:26,017 --> 00:12:29,433 So I'm gonna actually change to a square. 195 00:12:33,337 --> 00:12:35,837 So I'm folding those edges in, 196 00:12:36,437 --> 00:12:39,354 and then I'm gonna fold them again. 197 00:12:40,234 --> 00:12:44,400 And I think I'm just gonna leave those little edges raw. 198 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,020 And I'm just gonna snip these. 199 00:12:50,471 --> 00:12:53,971 And then, I'm just gonna slip my little... 200 00:12:57,017 --> 00:12:58,100 end in there, 201 00:12:59,277 --> 00:13:03,092 and again like I said, this is not a science because 202 00:13:03,092 --> 00:13:05,557 you can do kind of whatever you want. 203 00:13:05,557 --> 00:13:09,474 Or if you have a piece of ribbon you could use, 204 00:13:10,166 --> 00:13:13,024 that way you wouldn't have to worry about those raw edges. 205 00:13:13,024 --> 00:13:17,192 Basically, you are kind of ad-libbing and improvising here. 206 00:13:17,552 --> 00:13:20,341 The important thing to keep in mind is that it looks clean. 207 00:13:20,341 --> 00:13:24,008 Okay, so as long as you got it looking clean 208 00:13:24,682 --> 00:13:25,899 then you should be all set. 209 00:13:25,899 --> 00:13:28,373 So I think I'm happy with this. 210 00:13:28,373 --> 00:13:30,986 See how I folded it into kind of a square. 211 00:13:30,986 --> 00:13:34,316 And again, the stitching is gonna help clean it up too. 212 00:13:34,316 --> 00:13:36,066 So let's put a pin in 213 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:42,783 and we'll get the other side ready for stitching. 214 00:13:43,075 --> 00:13:46,219 I'll take this over and I'm gonna sew a little bit of a 215 00:13:46,219 --> 00:13:48,885 square pattern onto my end-pull, 216 00:13:50,984 --> 00:13:54,234 and I'm gonna start here in the middle. 217 00:13:54,793 --> 00:13:56,125 Take out my pin. 218 00:13:56,219 --> 00:13:58,852 And again, remember that the purpose of this 219 00:13:58,852 --> 00:14:01,519 is to reinforce this drawstring. 220 00:14:03,445 --> 00:14:04,626 So you want to make sure 221 00:14:04,626 --> 00:14:07,626 that you give it a few times around. 222 00:14:08,226 --> 00:14:12,226 So I'm gonna go kind of like in a square-circle. 223 00:14:12,532 --> 00:14:14,532 If that's an expression. 224 00:14:16,693 --> 00:14:19,456 But I'm just gonna kind of swing it around. 225 00:14:19,456 --> 00:14:22,567 (sewing machine revving) 226 00:14:22,567 --> 00:14:25,900 And so, it's obviously the purpose is to 227 00:14:26,188 --> 00:14:29,370 reinforce this, but there's no reason why 228 00:14:29,370 --> 00:14:31,703 we can't also be decorative. 229 00:14:32,554 --> 00:14:36,283 So I'm just gonna kind of start a little spiral 230 00:14:36,283 --> 00:14:37,866 towards the center. 231 00:14:41,293 --> 00:14:45,460 Woops, I'm getting a little close, but that's okay. 232 00:14:46,081 --> 00:14:49,331 And then, come more towards the center. 233 00:14:49,938 --> 00:14:51,188 Keep spiraling. 234 00:14:55,842 --> 00:14:58,009 And then come back around. 235 00:14:58,970 --> 00:15:01,297 And I like to kind of end where I started. 236 00:15:01,297 --> 00:15:03,629 So I'm gonna come back here. 237 00:15:06,428 --> 00:15:09,682 And you can see, how I started and stopped in the same spot, 238 00:15:09,682 --> 00:15:13,014 sort of, and I created a little pattern. 239 00:15:17,246 --> 00:15:19,580 And now my end-pull is done. 240 00:15:25,289 --> 00:15:27,039 Now your bag is done. 241 00:15:27,145 --> 00:15:29,280 And this is a really good time to go ahead 242 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,197 and press the whole bag. 243 00:15:31,197 --> 00:15:34,677 And you'll notice that your tabs look really great. 244 00:15:34,677 --> 00:15:37,000 And you can give them a pull. 245 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,399 They're really fun and easy to use and open back up. 246 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:43,371 And this is a nice time to observe the inside of your bag 247 00:15:43,371 --> 00:15:47,032 and how beautiful that French seam turned out. 248 00:15:47,032 --> 00:15:49,995 And it's just a really, this one is a really cute one. 249 00:15:49,995 --> 00:15:53,745 And I have a few variations to show, as well. 250 00:15:53,850 --> 00:15:57,768 I have just a different color in the same size. 251 00:15:58,024 --> 00:16:01,384 So this was also made with two fat quarters. 252 00:16:01,384 --> 00:16:03,884 And I also have a smaller size 253 00:16:04,248 --> 00:16:07,081 that I made using one fat quarter. 254 00:16:08,047 --> 00:16:11,001 So you can see, once you know how to make one size, 255 00:16:11,001 --> 00:16:13,466 you can really start making these bags 256 00:16:13,466 --> 00:16:15,633 in any size that you want. 257 00:16:19,250 --> 00:16:20,272 As you can see, 258 00:16:20,272 --> 00:16:22,604 there are a lot of possibilities with this bag. 259 00:16:22,604 --> 00:16:26,240 And for as little amount of time as it took us to make it, 260 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,700 it's actually a really polished final project, 261 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:31,431 and because of that French seam 262 00:16:31,431 --> 00:16:33,684 we've hidden all of the raw edges, 263 00:16:33,684 --> 00:16:36,397 meaning that this bag is gonna wash really well. 264 00:16:36,397 --> 00:16:40,563 So I hope that you have a lot of fun making this bag.