 It was just kind of, excuse me, hello, I was too much. I didn't film it or anything. It was just kind of one of those little projects where I was at Hobby Lobby and I saw this little metal purse frame and I thought, let me just pick that up. And I wonder if I can like slow stitch a little point purse out of it, which I did. And I shared it on social media and immediately everybody's like, oh my God, how did you make that? So I went and picked up another one. It's a different color, but that's okay. There are things about how I made this that I like and things that I don't, but it worked well. It'd be a cute little coin purse or a little small sewing notions purse. I'm gonna show you the basics of how I made this. I'm gonna change it up and improve. Hopefully I think improve how I did this exactly. Now, this is made up of hexagons, English paper piecing style, the outside fabric. So you first need to get a bunch of paper hexagons. Here and there is my jar of hexagon, bunch of these. You cover them in fabric. Okay, this is how you make your fabric hexagons. So you need some cardstock cut into hexagon shape. You can buy these pre-cut. If you have a silhouette or a cameo type cutting system, you can cut them using your cutting system. You could hand cut them, but you want them all to be the same. And before anybody asks me, because I know one of you is gonna ask. You can also get, there's a number of thin-lit type dies that they have a series of hexagon shapes, at which I have one. And I just tend to use the smallest one. These are about an inch and a half. So you need a bunch of these and then some fabric. So this is just a piece of cotton that was from my scrap jar. So I'm gonna grab my fabric scissors and not drop them. Okay, so you wanna just roughly cut around your hexagon. Try to leave about a quarter of an inch of fabric. Doesn't have to be perfectly straight. Can be crazy and wonky. Use fabric-based, a fabric-based glue stick or in this case, I use Elmer's washable school glue. It works just fine. And you wanna run glue around the edges and then pull up the fabric and stick it down all the way around, trying to do this around the phone tripod, which is challenging until you have it all basted down around all sides. And you'll end up with something like that. It's a great way to use up some of your scraps and just make a whole, you're gonna need a whole bunch of these for this project. Now, when I say whole bunch, I mean a whole bunch. Okay, so then you just wanna get a needle and thread. Use a single strand of thread, which this is. Tie a knot in one end. Take two of your hexagons and put them right sides together. We're gonna stitch along just one of these flat sides. So I'm gonna take my needle grab a couple of threads of fabric from one. Oops, couple threads of fabric from the other. Do that all the way across. Now, this is buttonhole twist. It's a little bit of a thick thread. So I don't mind if the stitches show from the right side. I find it kind of fine, it gives it some handmade sort of charm. If you really, really don't want the stitches to show use regular sewing thread and go all the way across. Now, normally when I do these for like a slow stitching project, I just like stop there or maybe do them in a row to make sort of an edge binding. But if you're gonna make a piece of fabric, then you're gonna wanna add more of them like here. You're gonna wanna do a row and then you're gonna wanna add more to the side. So I'm gonna show you how to do that. So again, you take your new one right sides together with one of the old ones. I'm gonna bring my thread through the orange one, grab a couple threads and then grab a couple threads of the gray one all the way across to the other corner. It's a great thing to do like in front of the TV at night or turn on some music, turn off the news and just stitch. Okay, normally probably when you get to the other corner you would tie it off, which I did it first but then I got tired of doing that. So what I did was I wove the thread back through the stitches I just made back to that other point right there. And then I took this, I wanna sew it here. So I took this like this, kind of bent this a little bit, flip it over. My right-handed, so I need to flip it over. And then I caught the blue corner and the orange corner and then do the same thing across to here and tie a knot. It's gonna be a bumpy video. So then I'll tie a knot. Now you have the beginnings of a piece of fabric. Like I said, the stitches show on the right side which I didn't mind so much but if you don't really want them to show then you number one wanna use a fabric or a thread that matches maybe a little better but also use something thinner than buttonhole twist. Once you have one of the hexagons ideally completely surrounded by other hexagons then you can pull the cardboard backing out which you definitely wanna do. And you just pull up the edges and pull the fabric out and then you can give it a repress before you stitch it down like that. Okay, as part of this video I'm gonna give you a copy of the pattern, oops, that I made. This is, I'll give it to you as a free download and the link will be down in the video description. Once you have enough hexagons sewn together to cut two of these, you need two of these. I am actually, this took me a while to prep because I'm working on a couple different projects and I was trying to get enough fabric sewn together to do both projects. I don't know that I accomplished that but I got tired of waiting but I have this, right, that's a lot. You don't need this much but you need enough for two. So the next thing you wanna do is cut your shapes out but if you just cut your shapes out all those little stitches you just did are gonna unravel, in my opinion. Right or wrong, that's what I think. So what I did with this one was I did some fusible interfacing on the backside of the fabric. Now in this one I did a fusible puffy felt like interfacing and I think it made it really thick and maybe even too thick. So for this next one I just have your standard woven like shirt cotton weight interfacing. Use what you have if you have some in your stash but and you've used fusible interfacing before then you know what I mean. This is not the stretchy stuff. This is just the regular woven and that'll work fine. This is actually scraps. So I'm going to piece a couple pieces of these scraps onto this sheet of hexagon fabric and cover the whole, I'm gonna iron it on the back and cover the whole back and fuse it down really well. So I'm gonna do that and I'll be back. Okay, once you have an iron on like this you're gonna wanna cut out two of these out of this fabric and two of these out of some other scrap fabric for the lining. So you have fabric on the inside and outside of the bag. Okay, so I'm gonna take my paper pattern piece and I'm, cause I do kinda wanna try to save some of this for the other project. I'm gonna try to align this up so that I can save as much as possible. But I'm gonna just lay the paper pattern piece on the fabric and then I'm gonna just trace around it with a pen. This is just a big pen. You can use a pencil. These lines are never gonna show so it doesn't matter. I'm gonna cut these out. Okay, so the interfacing is gonna give you time to get this sewn together before the stitches unravel and you could do this by hand or you could just do it on a machine. I'm gonna do it on a machine. What I'm gonna do first is finish off the top edge so that when we attach it to the frame there's no raw edge pieces of fabric up there even though it's gonna be between the pieces of metal cause there's a, let me show you what I mean. There's like a channel that the fabric goes in. There's a channel there. So even though the fabric's gonna go in that channel I still want the edges to be neat and clean. So the first thing I'm gonna do I'm gonna take one of the lining pieces and one of the outside pieces. I'm gonna put them right sides together and I'm gonna stitch along this edge here from corner to corner and then clip the edge and then turn it right side out and give it a press. I'll show you what I'm doing. Let me go do that and I'll be right back. Okay, so there's a row of stitches here and you need to clip in towards the row of stitches around the curve to get it to lie flat when you press it so I'm going to take my scissors and well, scissors that are sharper than that, I'll put these, yeah. And I'm gonna press almost to the stitches, not quite all the way around until you do that. Now when you turn it right side out of the lay flat I'm gonna do that and press it and I'll be right back. Okay, now before you do anything else take each side of your bag and make sure it fits neatly into that channel of the purse frame and that there aren't any, it's not a weird shape that doesn't fit, which this one does, let's check the other one. That one fits too. All right, so now it's a semi-tricky part. Okay, we're gonna put right sides of the lining together. I'm gonna stick a couple of pins. I could use sewing clips, but I don't wanna go get them. They're on the other table. So we put a couple of pins there and then I'm gonna take the outside of the bag, right sides together, just put a couple of pins, just hold everything together. Now what you wanna do is a little tricky. So you want to start about here. So you wanna leave an opening on the lining about an inch and a half, two inch opening. So you wanna start here and you wanna sew all the way around, you're gonna get to here where the little corners are and you wanna sew up to that corner and then across to the other corner, go all the way around and do this one and this one. Now you might wanna stop and back tack here and then start a new row and back tack here and then keep sewing, rather than doing a continuous line of stitches that might be easier for you and if it is, do that. But we're gonna sew all the way around and get these two pieces together, clipping our curves like we just did for the other part and turn it right side out and give it a press. Let me go do that and I'll be back. Okay, just like before, we wanna make sure we clip all these curves, otherwise when we go to turn it out the other way, it's not gonna lie flat. So we're gonna clip towards the seam, not cutting the stitches, just clip close to the stitches. I used about a quarter of an inch seam allowance on the bag. We'll try to remember to put that on the notes on the pattern, if I forget somebody remind me. So where we have our opening, whoops, is flat, I'm not gonna clip that. I'm gonna skip over to the other corner. The sides are a little bit rounded, so I'm gonna clip them too. Okay, now we get to turn it right side out, which to be honest is a little challenging because there's a lot of bulk here. So just take your time, you'll get it, push all the seams out. So right here at the corners. So we did some sewing, but you might still find that a little bit of the fabric is sticking out like right here. I just push it down and do a couple of hand tacking stitches there. Which I will probably do when we attach the purse frame. The first thing I'm gonna do is give it a press and then I'm gonna pull the lining out and I'm gonna sew up that hole. So I'm gonna just do this and I'm going to push the raw edges in like that. And I'm gonna run a machine stitch across there to sew up that hole. So I'll be right back and I'll give it a press while I'm gone. I'll be right back. Okay, to finish the assembly on your bag, we need to attach the frame and we also need to sew up any loose bits of fabric that are right here where the front and back join. Cause it's just really hard to get in there perfectly with your sewing machine. So first I'm gonna fix the hole. I'm gonna use the same thread that I used to sew all the octagons together. Cause that will just be easy. I'm gonna put the needle between the two pieces of fabric and have it come up above where the loose part is. That'll hide the knot on the inside. And then I'm gonna just do sort of a whip stitch. I might do a blind hem. We'll see how fussy it gets right here. Let's see. I think it's to be too fussy. Just do a little bit of a whip stitch. The reality is most of this is not gonna show cause the frame is kind of kind of be in the way. So I'm just gonna whip stitch it together. Make sure if there's any loose pieces of thread that you get rid of those before you attach your frame. Like I said, make sure all these little holes or imperfections are taken care of. Sew and shut. If you need to, you have to rip some stitches out and do it again. I'm gonna try to do a kind of a low profile knot here too. And then I'm gonna run my thread near the knot but back underneath the fabric. So that hides that tail end of the thread between the layers of fabric. And then just cut it off. And that's all sewn together. And that'll look just fine once the bag is done. Again, you won't even see it. We did some hand stitching on this one too, which again, you can't even see. So I'm gonna go to the other side now. Okay, now we have a bag body. We just need a closure for the top. So there's no easy way to do this. Let me just tell you that. I'm gonna just grab some thread here. I don't know if this is enough but I've got a bunch of needles with random thread on it. This is embroidery floss. I would recommend using something fun because it's gonna show. So use a fun color or a fun texture. And you want to slide your frame over one part of the bag. Try to center it. It's really difficult because you can't really clip it. You can't really do anything except just hold it. I don't know, maybe there's an easier way but that's what I found. So once I have it kind of where I want it, then I'm gonna start. You can't see what I'm doing. Hold on. Okay, once I have the frame kind of centered on this half of the bag, then I'm gonna start by knotting my thread, which I've done already. Do another knot. I'm going to have the knot be like right here so that when I pull this tight, it's hidden up inside the channel of the frame. At the same time, I'm gonna try to hit this hole. There's a hole down there on the frame. I don't know if I'm going to, but let's see. Yep, yep, yep, yep, oops. See, like that. There we go. So once I have that started, I'm gonna do pull the thread in here and then I'm gonna try to go over to the next hole in the frame, which you may or may not be able to see. And they're very hard to get the needle in. So this is probably the hardest part of the whole entire bag. This is the part where I sometimes needed pliers. There we go. So just do that until you get around the whole edge of the frame and you get this side on and then do the same thing to the other side. I'm gonna do that and I'll be right back. You may find that you're like me and you have trouble getting the needle through. Grab, grab some needle nose pliers. Get it to where you can see that the needle end is poking through the hole. And then grab a pair of pliers, force it. It's just that I don't have enough strength in my hands all the time to get into this tight spot. Oops. So anyway, pliers, pliers work. Okay, so once you're done, you have yourself a cute little coin purse. Now, if you want to make sure your knots don't come undone, then each place where you put a knot, get some dritz fray check and put a little drop of that on each one of the knots and then they won't go anywhere. And then, whoop, whoop, whoop. And then you have yourself a cute little coin purse. Now, you can do the slow stitched or you can do sort of half and half, which is what I did. Half, slow stitch, half regular stitching. Regular stitching, machine stitch. I don't know, I will say this one is a leader because I didn't put as much interfacing and batting in between the layers. It's a little easier to get into than this one, which is very, this one's very stiff. This one's a little bit more, say it's more flexible. This one you can still get into, but it's not, so you have to kind of really pull. So I would use the thinner weight fusible interfacing and not that fusible batting interfacing. So anyway, there you go. I hope that gave you some ideas of what you can do with just scraps you have laying around. And again, the little frame is from Hobby Lobby and it's this one. And I just used regular thread and embroidery floss, scraps of fabric that I had. And then I always have some of this, this stuff works great. I have this around all the time for stuff, sewing projects. It's great on your knots, so they don't go anywhere. All right, that's it. Please check the video description for all appropriate links. And if you can support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups, please do so. 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