Lunch-Bag Handemade

Make this pretty lunch bag to bring your little meal with you everywhere: lunch at work, children's snacks, snacks on the go ...

Practical closure by rolling the top of the bag with velcro. Made from coated cotton canvas, it is easy to clean with a sponge. But you can choose whatever fabric you like.

Quick and easy to make, it is a useful and practical object, and nice to show off at the office: "I did it"!

Supplies

Paper

Paper pencil and eraser

Paper scissors

Fabric scissors

Ruler

Outer fabric and lining fabric - here coated cotton canvas each of 28 x 70 cm

matching sewing thread

14 cm of Velcro band ( one hook and one loop) 2 cm wide

Sewing machine

Sewing pin

Tailoring chalk or other marking tool

Iron

Tracing and Cut the Sewing Pattern

We start by tracing a sewing pattern !

I chose to start from a 28 * 70cm rectangle. You can choose to make it larger or smaller.

We are going to position the locations of the Velcro bands on our pattern.

The “loop” Velcro part positions it 4 cm from the edge of the rectangle, perfectly in the middle. (13cm from the top and 13cm from the bottom, as the tape is 2cm wide.) You can position a point at the 4 corners of the 14cm tape location.

The "hook" part of the strip is positioned at 6 cm from the opposite side of the rectangle. Like the other, the marking points are 13 cm from the top and 13 cm from the bottom in order to position it perfectly in the middle.

It's important to position the two bands correctly so that they overlap when closing our lunch bag.

let's cut out our pattern. The seam allowances of 1 cm are included.

Prepare and Cut Fabrics

Before working our fabric, we can wash it and / or iron it if necessary.

Be careful, if like me you want to use coated cotton canvas, it's not recommended to use the iron or too high a temperature. If your fabric is wrinkled, you can still steam it with steam, your iron as cool as possible and without contact, fabric on the reverse side.

Once your fabric is ready, you can place your pattern on the reverse side of your lining fabric.i choose a white linning coated cotton canvas.

Pin it, taking care to pin it in the 1 cm of seam allowances, because the pins mark the coated fabric. It will therefore be hidden in the seams.

Cut your lining.

Repeat the operation on your outer fabric. I choose a pretty leaf fabric coated cotton canvas.

In addition, we will mark the location of the Velcro straps on our outer fabric.

For this, you can pass a pin on each point previously drawn on the four corners of each velcro strip. By turning your fabric over, you will see the pins come out in the right place. With a tailoring chalk for example mark the 2 x 4 points.

Cut your fabric.

Sew Velcro

You are now going to place the Velcro strips on the right side of your fabric, on your marking.

Secure them with pins.

With the sewing machine, sew closest to the edge of the two velcro strips on your fabric.

Sew the Sides

Fold your outer fabric rectangle in half, right sides together.

Place one of your hands inside to prevent the Velcro straps from catching between it, this will allow you to position yourself well edge to edge. Pin the 2 long sides.

Repeat the operation on your lining fabric. It's easier, without velcro!

With the sewing machine, stitch the two pinned sides of your pieces at 1 cm from the edge.

don't forget to congratulate your cat assistant.

Create the Bottom of the Bag

Now we are going to create the bottom of our lunch bag.

Take a corner and fold it to create an isosceles triangle on the side. Mark 5 cm in front of the point of the triangle. Draw a line with your chalk to visualize the triangle.

Pin on your line.

Stitch under your marking and cut the triangle approximately 0.5 cm from your seam.

Repeat the operation on the 3 other angles, fabrics and lining!

Turn the outer fabric piece right side up.

Leave the liner piece inside out.