I made this Satchel from the Bag making book I bought for 50p this summer ‘A Bag for All Reasons’ by Lisa Lam (author of the Bag Making Bible).
The Vinyl arrived as the packing for an item Mick had purchased on-line. It seemed to good to throw away so I stashed it.
I wanted to try the pattern out, but did not want to waste good fabric as I knew the corners were going to be tricky.
The pattern is made up of double side pieces with stiffener between the layers to make it strong and stand up.
The vinyl is a bit floppy which caused no end of trouble when I was trying to put the magnetic fasteners on and position them correctly.
When using Vinyl you cannot use pins, but you can buy very small bulldog clips which do the same job. Sadly I did not have any so used Mick’s masking tape instead. The beauty of which was that I could sew over it and remove it later.
The worst part is that the reverse side of the vinyl is white so the out-facing seems show the colour.
Mick thought it was a shame that so much effort was put into something I won’t use, as the colour shows, but I learned a heck of a lot and the next one will be better.
I did not have enough material to make a long handle so improvised with a short one. The machine had to go through 5 thicknesses of fabric to do this and managed it.
I used the walking foot on my machine as the vinyl has a tendency to stick.
It’s not pretty but it does look like a satchel.
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