Exploring our sustainability, and thinking about what we can do to help the environment, we decided to make tote bags. We also thought it would be great to learn how to sew with a machine, as some of us had already learnt how to sew by hand.
This was the process we followed:
- Design our tote bag with a connection to ourselves - our name, a pet, our family, things we like to do or play. We made a paper design the size of our bag, remembering to make sure our design was the correct way up on both sides of the bag.
- We cut out our bag using the paper design as our pattern.
- We transferred our design from the pattern to the material and then painted our design on the material.
- We hand tacked our bag.
- We chose material for our straps.
- Now came the exciting part! Machine sewing the sides of our bag, the top seam, and sewing our straps.
- Once the straps were sewn we turned them and attached them to our bag and then we were finished.
Don't they look amazing?
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