Design your own drawstring bag the perfect sized carrying pouch to keep your favorite item safe and sound :)
- Material List
- Let’s talk seam finishing!
- Seam finishing Techniques
- Beginner! - Pinking shears
- Intermediate!
- Zig-zag stitch
- Advanced!
- Serger (overlock)
- Drafting your Pouch Pattern
- Measure first!
- Then draft your pattern pieces from your measurements !
- Cut your fabric to size using your pattern
- Sewing your Pouch
- Start with the main body!
- Move on to the drawstring channel
- Adding your drawstring
- The final step
In this workshop you will learn intermediate pattern drafting techniques through making a drawstring pouch that is custom sized to fit an object of your choosing.
We will explore the math and geometry behind drafting and help deepen your understanding of what goes into creating an accurate pattern based on your own design.
You will learn more about patterns and their role in creating multiples in the manufacturing process.
At the end of this 2 hour workshop you will draft and sew a pouch to house a treasure of your own!
This shouldn’t be your first sewing project!
This project requires basic knowledge of sewing machine threading, backstitching, pinning, ironing, and measuring.
If you haven't practiced these skills yet, it might be a good idea to make this project in a workshop or with help from a STEAM team member.
Material List
Sewing Safety
Let’s talk seam finishing!
All cut woven fabric will fray, threads will come off the edge making the fabric weaker.
On the edge of rolls of fabric there is a special part called the Selvage this part of the fabric is woven way tighter than the rest of the fabric, makings it so it can't fray.
Seam finishing Techniques
Test out a few seam finishing techniques by making a seam finishing sampler before deciding which one you would like to use on this project!
Beginner! - Pinking shears
Pinking shears are the easiest was to control the fraying of a woven fabric. Cutting a zig-zag into the edge into a fabric makes it the fabric only frays within the width of the zig-zag.
Intermediate!
Zig-zag stitch
Advanced!
Serger (overlock)
Drafting your Pouch Pattern
Find something that you would like to make a fabric pouch for so we can get going!
Measure first!
Then draft your pattern pieces from your measurements !
Cut your fabric to size using your pattern
Sewing your Pouch
Now that we have measured, drafted our pattern, and cut everything out we are ready to sew.
