hello I'm Cheryl and welcome to my sewing room I'm going to demonstrate how to make a cosmetic makeup bag so let's take a look okay as you can see I've got two different colors on the outside of the bag a deep navy blue at the bottom in this multicolored zigzag stripe around the top it also has a zipper at the very top of the bag and this bag is also lined now if you're a beginner if you've never sewn anything before the zipper might be a little challenging but feel free to go ahead and try it okay alright so let's go over what you're going to need can make this cosmetic bag this you're going to need approximately a quarter of the yard of each of the following fabrics or you can use that quarter fabrics so you're going to need two different colors for the outside of the bag and then one color for the lining the interfacing you're going to need about 1/3 of a yard of iron on interfacing and then one nine inch zipper all right now let me show you how to make your own pattern this is really easy the finished size of this pattern is approximately nine and a half by seven or nine by seven it all depends on how big your seams are okay now for the top of the bag you can draw a rectangle that is ten and a half by four and a half and Mark on it that it's the top and you're going to need to cut two pieces so write that on your pattern piece now for the bottom of the bag I'm going to show you how to cut out a shape that looks like this and it's really really easy okay so draw a rectangle that is ten and a half by six and a half mark on that piece that it's the bottom of the bag and by the way on all seam allowances you're going to use it 3/8 of an inch so go ahead and write that on the outside of your pattern and you're going to need two now I'm going to show you how to do these little corners here take a ruler and put the two-inch marker on the outside lines here and there okay then take a pen or pencil and draw a line here and here then draw an X do each side here because this is not part of the bag so you're not going to use this as your cutting line then go over to the opposite corner and do the same thing place your two-inch line on the outside lines draw a line here and there and then just draw a little excess through so that you know this is not the cutting part of the pattern and as I said when you're done it should look like this okay this shape all right great now we're going to cut out or make a pattern for the lining almost just like the piece you just did except you're going to draw a square ten and a half by ten and a half you're going to use this pattern for the lining and the interfacing again mark on it 3/8 of an inch seam and you will cut out two then again repeat that process of putting the two inch markers on each corner draw a line here and there relax is there go over to the opposite corner and repeat it okay and now you have your pattern for your cosmetic bag real easy all right so now let's put the bag together so take your pieces for the outside of the bag bring right sides together okay and pin up here on the top piece here and Stitch 3/8 of an inch from this raw edge here going 3/8 of an inch stitch all the way across do that on both the front and back of the bag then open it up and press this seam open then take your iron on interfacing and follow the directions on the package for how to put that on it's a really easy process do that on both sections the front and back of the two pieces that go on the outside of the bag okay alright now after you have your interfacing put on you're going to do some top stitching along that seam line so you're going to stitch a little less than an eighth of an inch from the seam all the way across and then come on the other side here and do the same thing do that on both sections of the bag okay alright now take your zipper and you're one of your sections of the bag ok and let me find my zipper here here is okay now place the zipper here's the front side of the zipper place it face down and place it on the edge up here now take one of your lining pieces here is the front side of my lining I'm going to place this side face down on top of the zipper and again line it up across here go ahead and pin it all down then for this next step you will need a zipper foot your zipper foot might look something like this or it might not but whatever foot you have should have a straight edge right across here okay when you use your zipper foot you're going to be here for zipper teeth you're going to be putting this zipper foot near the edge of the T and stitch along okay now because you've got the lining covering up the teeth you will be able to see a raised area here so don't worry about that and you're just going to go ahead and stitch along here now don't stitch too close to the zipper you're going to go in about 3/8 of an inch from the raw edge up here if you have a sewing machine in which you can move your needle left or right don't move the needle left or right leave it in the center mark you can see that there's a red line on my zipper foot leave your needle in that Center mark and then you won't stitch too close to the zipper okay so stitch all the way across then when you're done with that you're going to bring the lining and the outside part of the bag bring those two sides together all right right that wrong sides together now it should look like this here's your zipper sticking out here now you're going to do some top stitching along here you're going to start where the end of the zipper is not hit here at the edge start right there and go close to the fold line and stitch all the way across and stop here at the end of the zipper do not go all the way across to the very edge of the fabric and before you do this top stitching do a finger pressing here okay and a finger pressing here don't use your iron because you might melt your zipper if you get too close okay now take your next section okay there is now take your zipper here's the right side of the zipper put it face down on the next section and you're going to repeat all of the steps again for the other side of the bag take your lining laying it right side down face down line it all up then stitch along here about 3/8 of an inch in remember don't get too close to the zipper teeth then open everything up and repeat the process of doing this top stitching on the other side okay alright now before you go on to this next step open the zipper I made one of these once where I forgot to open the zipper and when I went to turn the bag right side out I couldn't turn it right-side out because all the seams were sealed up so open the zipper alright now bring both pieces of lining right sides together and bring the other part of the bag the outside of the bag bring all of that together okay now at the end of the lining you're going to stitch a little bit on each side so come in 3/8 of an inch from this raw edge come in and then from this edge go in about 1 inch do a few stitches back and forth to secure it because when you reach inside this hole later you try to pull that rest of the bag through you might pull this apart and then do the same thing over on this side about 1 inch okay then at the other end you're going to seal it all the way across so 3/8 of an inch seam stitch all the way across ok now on the sides here you're going to stitch 3/8 of an inch all the way to full length ok now after you do that on all of your corners these little odd shaped corners here we're now going to stitch these so open it up and pull it apart line up your feet okay line them up alter the scene well let me see if I can get it open here open your scenes and match them okay let me show you the other side so you can see what I need see how I've got my seam open here and I got it open there okay now pin it and stitch again 3/8 of an inch you're going to do this on both corners of the lining and both corners of the fabric on the outside of the bag okay so all four corners alright now you're going to reach inside this lining hole at the end here reach all the way through all the way to the end of the bag scrunch up the end of the bag and begin working it through this hole okay so when you're done it's going to look like this your lining is now pulled out now we're going to seal up the hole at the end of the lining so here's where my hole was fold those in for that opening in 3/8 of an inch bring both sides together and Stitch real close along here to seal up the bag then when you're done with that you are really done with the bag go ahead and push your lining in okay and when you're done it should look like that okay now in my previous video I showed are demonstrating how to make this personal tissue cover so this is a nice little gift set to give somebody now in the next video I'm going to show you how to make the matching tote bag and it has three pockets in the front and three pockets in the back okay again it makes a nice little gift set well 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