Intermediate
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58 min 6 sec
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00:33
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01:27
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02:41
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12:39
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10:34
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12:35
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10:29
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02:45
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04:23
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Taught by Joel Dewberry
In this class, Joel and Laurie combine their love of colorful fabric with sewing know-how to make a stunning and sturdy farmer’s market tote bag. Both the interior and exterior of the bag are pieced together with eye-catching fabrics. Laurie walks you through the steps for constructing the bag from the inside out, and covers details like adding fusible interfacing and making pockets. Once the sides of the bag are assembled, she shows you how to add the bottom of the bag and hand-sew the opening closed with a slipstitch. A little decorative top stitching gives the finished bag a polished look.
Learn how to:
What you’ll get:
Here’s what you’ll need:
Materials:
- PDF Pattern
- Paper scissors
- Fabric scissors
- Thread snips
- Seam ripper
- Sewing machine and thread to match fabric
- Point turner (or chopstick)
- Straight pins and pin cushion
- Hand sewing needle
- 1/4 yd heavyweight interfacing
- 1 yd light to mid-weight interfacing
- 2 1/2 yds of quilting weight fabric (Joel and Laurie chose fabrics from the True Colors fabric line by FreeSpirit)
- Iron and ironing board
Downloads:
- Apply fusible interfacing
- Pin and sew curves
- Hand-sew a slipstitch
What you’ll get:
- An easy-to-follow class on how to sew a tote bag
- 8 HD video lessons you access online anytime, anywhere
- Detailed supply list
- Downloadable PDF pattern include - $16 value
- Step-by-step instruction by designer Joel Dewberry
- The ability to leave comments, ask questions and interact with other students
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Sewing a Tote Bag Reviews
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High School Teachers 1
not a fan
May 6, 2025
Sarah Eaton
Great course for beginner, or beginning bag maker. Good tips on the how and the why. A little slow in spots... could jump ahead on thew sewing - but definitely helpful!
May 1, 2025
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I enjoyed making this beautiful bag. I will make more and more. Thank you guys for a beautiful bag pattern and tutorial. I agree with some reviewers that some of the process could have been a fast forward
But I guess that wasn't the couple's faults. We can speed up a video ourself. Looking forward for more class from Joel and Laurie!
More than 3 months ago
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