so y'all got your measurements you got your fabric cutout you got your interface and cutout you got your piece cut out for your little handle you got a 14 inch zipper ready to go now what I'm going to do is I'm going to iron interfacing onto each piece of this fabric and I will do that sped up if you have a problem understanding what I'm doing I have a video on interfacing and or you can click the link to my blog and I'll explain interfacing and how it works and what kinds you need to use and just for quick reference I'm using a pale on number 809 decor bond and is a medium heavyweight interfacing you Hey so now you should have your interfacing are known to each of the four pieces for the bag and the next thing we want to do is attach our zipper foot and these different foots are interchangeable you can move them from one side to the other so that you can just sew the zipper on one way but I usually just keep it on one side and I'll just keep flipping it's just a habit I have if you see me doing that in the video and you question why it's just I always happen to sew to the right side of the zipper so I always have my foot over to the right so it's out of the way and we're going to start by and what I'm going to do is with the right side that's going to be the side where you've got the zipper pool facing the right side of the outside of the fabric the bag we're going to start I guess what I'll do is I'll turn my zipper this way so that I have the pool facing the other way and it's still with the front side of the zipper or the top of the zipper facing the right side of the fabric so I'm going to set my machine to medium speed it is set on lightweight fabric 2.5 stitch length the tension is close to the 6 between the 6 and the 5 the closer to the 6 my presser foot is on the six so if you have the same machine I'm using you can use the same stitches on here okay so once you get down here close to this pool you're obviously going to have a really hard time making a smooth line if you try to even with the zipper foot on if you try to sew around this so what I'm going to do is over here on the side of my machine where I've got the thing that moves the needle up and down I'm going to push that needle down in there be careful to keep your feet away from the pedal while you're doing this because you know you don't need to cut your machine off you just need to make sure that you're not going to press that foot and start your machine to sewing and sew over your finger so I'm going to lift up the presser foot and I'm going to open up the zipper and I'm going to hold that zipper in place and now I'm going to close the presser foot back down and I'm going to raise my needle back up and I'm going to finish this stitch and always make sure that you do a little back stitch at the beginning in the end of your project so you see there we've got our zipper sewn on one side now we're going to take a piece I'm going to go ahead and close this zipper back up we're going to take a lining piece of fabric here and I'm going to lay it so that the zipper is sandwiched in between the two layers and I'm gonna make sure I'm lining the two projects up together and what I'm going to do is flip this around and since I'm starting on the end where the zipper pulley is I'm going to put my needle in there I'm going to go ahead and open up my zipper a little bit and once I get past that zipper what I'm going to do is just close it back up because for me it's easier if the zippers closed so I'm just going to follow the line from the first one I made for the outside piece of the bag and that way I'll keep my line neat so I'm just going to like I'm tracing with a pencil except I'm doing it with a thread I'm going to follow right along with this first line I made okay so now you say I've got the first pieces for the one side of the zipper sewn onto the zipper now what I want to do is just kind of smooth it out with my fingers to begin with and then I'm going to take that iron and I'm going to press that down to make sure it's away from the zipper pull now we're going to do the other side of the bag same thing we want the right sides of the bag facing together and we want to line it up with the zipper so that everything is nice neat crisp and pretty you now we've got everything together sorta you know everything's on the zipper what so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to this gets kind of tricky but we want to do this step because especially for this bag if this was a different project it wasn't this cosmetic bag maybe if it was a small bag a small little coin purse I wouldn't top stitch but I'm going to do that with this one so now I'm going to go to my machine and I'm going to put it on a longer stitch length I'm going to do a 3.5 stitch length and I'm just going to right along the edge here if you guys can see it I can't even see if you can see it because I have my glasses on and I see terribly from that far away so I'm just going to top stitch really close to this edge right here of this material and you want to make sure everything is like I said off that zipper you know give it a little final little tug before you start sewing okay so I've done the first one I don't know if you guys can see that stitch because I'm doing white thread so I'm going to turn it around and I'm going to do the other side I want to turned out parity alright okay so the inside of this bag we're going to is going to be a little funny because it's going to be sewn with wrong sides facing together but the outside we're going to do that the way you know right sides facing together what we're going to do is just sew all the way down this and I'm doing about a half an inch seam allowance I've got my stitch length it 20.5 my speed at medium speed tension is between the six and the five closer to the six my presser foot and pressure is on the six now the thing about this project is it's going to have a raw edge inside the bag but the neater you sew the better it will be it'll be okay you'll just survive so let me zoom out so you guys can see so what we're going to do is first of all we're going to kind of roll this outside of the bag up in here and then we're going to find the ends of the inside of the bag and I would recommend and doing like a a roll like a zig zag stitch or something just to neaten this up make it look a little better now it gets to be just loads and loads of fun I'm going to step up for actually I got to tell you guys to do was to press the seam open in this on this outside of the bag so what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to do that now I've got I've got a little bit of room in there I think I can do it here and now what we're going to do is this gets it can get really tricky so you have to be careful at this part or you won't get a pretty bag out of this first thing we need to do is we're going to have to open that zipper up a little bit and get it over way and we're going to take both layers of this bag lining up the seams like the back and the on the end the inside and the outside seams should kind of line up you can press these down since we do have this on the outside I know that interfacing is going to show and it's kind of icky you could take even a hand stitch a piece of the matching fabric all over this stitch because it is going to show on the inside of the bag and you know it's probably not going to look all that attractive that way but do it so now what we're doing is we're trying to line up anyway what we're going to try to do is line up those seams with the zipper we don't want to try you want to do it you don't want I guess you don't want to think maybe I can just be a little off with this no you can't you and I got to kind of play around with it a little bit and make sure that I've got everything lined up as neat as I can see when I went and pulled that side this side went a little crooked Syd so we want to make sure all these layers are together they're not folded in there they're not doubling up that they're all laying flat together so now what we're going to do when we've got everything nice and flat and neat is we're going to sew down these sides just the ends where they're open and you want to be very careful you want to leave a nice generous seam allowance a little more than half an inch probably maybe 2/3 of an inch if you have to and do it on both ends and make sure that you change your settings on your machine because this is really heavy we've got four layers of fabric and four layers of interfacing so I would call that a medium to heavy weight just depending on the fabric you use this kind of the fabric I have on the outside almost feels like a duck cloth but it's a little bit thinner not quite as stiff so you know set your machine based on that and be very careful of this little tail end here that has the metal teeth I really should have I think the first one I made I tried to just completely not have that in the area at all but it's there now so I've got to be aware of it and be careful not to sew right over it because you will break a needle okay I did so both ends of this and I forgot to turn the camera on when I did the first one but anyway okay so the next thing we want to do is that the ends here and you do first and foremost you want to make sure that you sew all the way to the end of this of each one you don't want to hole in anything which it probably wouldn't be anyway once you make these gussets but anyway now we're going to make the gussets but first we need to clip these ends it just it makes it easier to do the guess that's all we're gonna have to use my big suit I don't want to clip the the material what I'm doing is I'm just clipping I'll do this and then I'll show you guys and what I'm doing is clipping and opening the seam allowance see so that it's easier to work with when you do this part okay so now we are going to make our visits so that I'm back is squared now we just have a flat bag and we want to square back so and I know you guys are thinking what the heck are we going to do with the handle we're going to get to that the way I'll do it it's just easier for me so we're going to get in there and I may not have opened my zipper opener so we want to get our zipper open and we don't need to open it all the way right now we just need to get it open so we can get our hand in there each pin cushion ready grab one of these corners here and open the seams I make a little triangle and try to make an even line spread everything out with your fingers make sure that you're not balling anything up in the back they are bunching anything up I need to open this scene up just a little bit more wanting to lay flat now what you do here matters a lot so you want to be careful and you want to make sure that this is done right so what I'm going to do is I'm opening that and I'm pressing with my fingers and making sure that everything is even and I kind of want to line it up that looks pretty the way it's folded like that so I'm going to take my ruler I'm just kind of looking at it and you know with my with my smart vision and I'm going to figure out where I want to draw this line and I'm a little pencil that I've always losing my bone up here on my head and I'm going to hold this down and this is kind of I'm in an awkward angle because I'm trying to show you guys how to do this so what you want to do is make a pencil mark all the way across there and you can pin it which is what I should have done that's why I told you to get you pincushion ready right right so you want to pin those seams I've been and pin up above a little bit above where you're going to sew and it gets a little tricky if you've got these little cheap pins like I do they want to bend up make a damn mess so I'm a look at it do I like that triangle I actually don't because it's going to be crooked if I do it like that so I'm going to take my ruler I'll flatten everything out better and I'll see that I've got it kind of leaning this way so I'm going to do it this way you once we got our pins out we're just going to cut a little little close to the dough stitch but we don't want to cut threads snitch obviously and I like to save my little piece and I kind of match it up with the other one once I've got that one done so now we got this one and then why don't you make this triangle the fatter your bag is going to be the water your bag is going to be so that's up to you you can do it I'm not doing it in any certain at any certain width I'm just trying to get it neat so kind of get my finger in there so that I can line this up and you can look at it and see do you like the way that looks if you do then you do it you so now we're just going to see how our bag looks when we turn it right-side that's not bad at all it needs some pressing and some poofing but it looks good so now what we need to do is I know we sewed everything together right and we didn't do our handle but it's just when I went through different ways to do it and I try the different methods it got kind of messy trying to do it while you were constructing these corners here so what I decided was the best thing for me to do is to turn it back wrong thought out I decided which end I wanted to put my hand alone and for me I've it worked best I think to put the handle on the end where the zipper closes if it's different for you than you know or you can put two handles it really doesn't matter but this is the end I'm going to have it on so what I'm going to do now is create that little handle and I have this 10-inch P so I've got it with row edges here and I'm just it's up to you what size you don't want it to be too thick but I'm doing to where it's about an inch and I'm covering all the raw edges we're going to take it to the Machine and we're just going to create some stitches and don't forget to change your machine back to lightweight fabric and 2.0 2.5 stitch lengths and the tension and everything pretty much stays the same now you want to get your seam ripper I know right you just put this together and you might not want to you might want to go easy on these stitches when you're putting whichever ends you're going to put this handle through in there so that you can get to it easier but what I'm going to do is right in the middle there I'm going to open that seam back up being very careful not to rip my fabric so once you've got it open enough that this handle fits in there without folding over you want to feed the handle through and the backside of the handle where that little seam you made and that fold over you made us showing on your side facing you you want to push it through there that way and then you want to open up the other side and feed it through there making sure that you're not folding it over or bending it the wrong way so that your handle doesn't come out crooked and I just follow it in with my hand and just push it through and there may be too much handle you really may not need that much you don't want to pull it real tight you want to have enough of it that you can get your hand in there to grab a hold of your cosmetic bag and so I've got it the way I want it and it's lined up with the seams so now I'm going to sew this back up and now all you have to do is make sure there's not too much handle hanging in there but you like I said you want enough and we're going to just sewed back over these guess it's that way mate just being real careful not to get anything out of place so now we can clip the little tails of our and handle there no reason I told you to cut it at 10 inches in case you want it to be a little longer and in case you do your width of these bags a little different then you might need a little longer handle it's always better to have more than less when it comes to fabric because you can't add but you can take away you know you can use some manly fabric maybe some moustache fabric or something and make a shaving bag for guys so I'm still fiddling with the but that turned out really great really great and I'll tell you if you're going to sell these if you're going to make these to sell which I have no problem with that but anyway I'll tell you if you're going to sell these and you want to ship them and I always when I would sell mine I would put a little note in there I had them printed out little cards telling how to care for them how to get them back up to that shape when they get them but you don't want to ship it like this because you would have to ship it in a priority mailbox and I would fold them like this and put them in an envelope and they'll ship in a padded envelope first-class meal three or four bucks I love this fabric I didn't tell you about this at the first of the video but I was going to use the same fabric that I showed you guys the picture of the other day because I kind of wanted it you know to match up with what I've been telling you I was going to do but I went into Walmart to get my interfacing and I saw this fabric they had a bunch of this I got this and kind of a similar couple of patterns here that I'm going to make some more out of and I got it in half yards and it is 40 wide so I think when I opened it out and I cut my pieces out while ago I fear that and a half yard and - half yard pieces which is essentially a yard you can get about three cosmetic bags possibly four out of a yard of fabric so I'm so we're just going to see what the next project is going to be you guys go on over to Facebook and then maybe we'll talk about what you want me to do for the video that will be coming up next Friday this will is obviously released on a Monday so the Friday videos should be I should be working on that soon and be sure to check out my new blog I forgot to tell you guys about that but there would be some sewing tips in there there's some other things personal things and stories and you know you guys know I love to ride I hope you go over there and check out my blog and let me know what you think of it and give me some feedback on that as well so I hope you guys enjoyed this little tutorial piece by that