DALIX 16" Zippered Expandable Shopping Tote Bag in Red

you so a couple of small things before we get started you're going to need quite a sturdy fabric to make these bags a cotton duck a drill a Hessian a burlap that sort of thing something that's quite substantial as best now we are only going to sew this using a plain sower with a straight stitch and our stitches we're going to sew our one seemed to me two seam allowances which is 3/8 of an inch in addition to this make sure that your stitch length is slightly longer than normal I mean you don't have to but it is a really good idea it tends to make these bags look better and if you need to unpack anything it's slightly easier so when you're ready let's get started on sewing the straps so feel free if your fabric isn't very sturdy to go ahead and apply fuse which people call interfacing to the reverse of this fabric I'm using a cotton duck and it's firm enough that I'm happy with it so let