 We're gonna we're gonna work on a project. I've kind of been putting off to be honest because I'm not sure I'm a little scared about making this project I'm not sure I actually own the skills to pull it off or not But we're gonna find out good or bad or ugly. We're gonna I'm gonna film it because I'm nuts that way All right, so this is a tote bag from the ranger booth at Creativation that I picked up while I was there in Phoenix recently helping out canvas court Browns and They were giving these away now not only Does this tote bag have fabulous artwork on it because most of the time when you go to trade shows like this This is the type of bag that you get. I do like this bag. I love dritz products and this is nice muslin That being said you usually get this or you get something more like this hobby lobby bag That's just kind of a mesh something that's you know cheap and inexpensive inexpensive and lightweight This ranger bag and plain this ranger bag is not only not plain It's covered front and back and bottom with Tim Holtz artwork But well, he's you know like grunge papers and stuff. It's got Tim Holtz ideology on both sides and It's made out of the same material as these if you have one of these bags This tote bag is the same material. I pulled mine out just to double-check that my thinking on that was correct And it is And I use mine to keep my knitting needles in the few that I own still FYI So I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna make a Travel case out of this I would really like to have Something that fits in my travel suitcase that I can put everything in that's in this travel wallet and this travel wallet into one bag First of all, I don't know if I have the skills to make said thing It's a little bit more of a Advanced sewing project Figuring out just the math for this and I'm not gonna draft a pattern or anything But I'll give you guys measurements as I have them as we go along. So you honestly you're just gonna have to replay the video I'm sorry if somebody out there wants to use my measurements that I say in the video to create some kind of Document for everybody that we can download I would appreciate that you can message me my email is in the description below Anyway, so I really like the idea of these zippered bags That you can unzip that open flat This one is not big enough to hold everything in both of these So I'm really thinking something that's a little bit bigger that maybe has more pockets to it and more heft to it, but That still fits in the bottom of my case. This is my actual travel bag. I emptied it out for this So I was looking at this and thinking For the outside cover if I fold this in half and cut this top part off where the handles are That actually sort of fits in the bag And that might work Maybe I don't know if it's gonna hold everything. I need to when all of a sudden done I don't know, but we're gonna try it and we're gonna see so I'm gonna put all this aside We're gonna do the scariest thing first Which is cut the bag apart? so Here we go, holy cow I'm gonna cut right underneath this stitching line and basically just separate the top of the bag from the bottom of the bag Just right underneath the stitching line So I want to save as much of the fabric as I can I should have grabbed two of these bags because it's such a pretty bag But I didn't think about that till afterwards and they were all out By the time I went back Because of course they were everybody probably had the same idea as me. What a cool bag. I Love all the old vintage papers. He's got printed on this fabric. I think it's fabulous All right There we have it. We've got the top off Just make a little pile of stuff on the floor Now I do think I'm gonna line this bag with just plain Unprinted canvas. It's the best most sturdy thing. This fabric is nice But it's not super sturdy. I don't think and I really just want this for the outside cover so now I'm gonna cut this piping off or It's not piping by bias tape This stuff off the edges Again as close to the stitching as we can get So just basically just disassemble the bag. So if you have Maybe you have a bag that you want to do this to or maybe it's some other kind of garment You want to just take it apart in a way That you're saving as many of the big pretty pieces of fabric as you can And I might not use these today, but I'm gonna save them because I think they're cool So I'm gonna put these two pieces aside because I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna need them Now we're left with this look at this piece of fabric now It's very cool so I'm still thinking if I took a piece like this size and That's basically my outside cover. This is a zipper. I got a hobby lobby now I wanted to get a zipper like this because it has two Pulls on it. I don't know. I don't know if this is the zipper. I'm gonna want to use or not But it is well how it's 28 inches long. I do have a box of zippers So yeah, so I think that and this is really the maximum size again that I think is gonna fit in my case And I do think I want to add some to the sides each side of the zipper some of this fabric So that instead of having it like this where this part This is the zipper that it's actually a little deeper. So we have a little piece of fabric there So it's a little bit got some room to really stuff it fat or I Think at least all right, so let's just bite the bullet here and cut this piece of fabric off What side do I want? I think I want this side So I'm gonna just cut along one of the folds here for the bottom of the bag Of course, I'm gonna save the rest of this fabric because I know I'm gonna Probably want it for a future project So now we want to cut a piece of the canvas that's the same size as this piece of Tim Holtz bag fabric Which is let's see. I need my so it is 15 I'm like 11 and 3 quarters Okay So we're gonna take a piece of this Actually, we're gonna cut two pieces of it that are the same size as that piece of fabric Tim Holtz fabric I'll show you why in a minute So I'm just gonna just do low-tech way Let's try not to cut this wire because you know what this is to my sewing machine Let's put it up here So now we have an outside fabric a piece of inside fabric. I Want to put pockets and flaps on the inside So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut this extra piece of plain fabric in half And then I'm gonna trim a little bit of it off. Well, do I need to trim it? Cuz I might have I'm probably gonna hem it. I probably don't need to trim it. So let's actually not do that Because I'm gonna I'm gonna hem it and once I hem it which I don't normally do y'all know that usually just leave the edges raw Or do I want to just leave them wrong? I Think I'm gonna just leave them wrong. I'm gonna trim about. I don't know a half an inch Or so with one edge Okay, we're gonna take this fabric and some more of our canvas And we're gonna cut out some pieces on these two flaps That will be on the inside to arrange Some pockets that will go this way to hold different things pens and pencils and some pockets probably that go that way Plus these are themselves going to be a pocket and I may add another pocket that goes that way So I'm going to do that. I'm gonna speed forward through it and I'll be right back Okay, so here are I think on my two sides and I'm gonna sew them up really quick I'm not gonna fast-forward through that part And then we're gonna trim them because obviously some of the pieces like these pockets here are bigger than this piece They're gonna get sewn to after I get them sewn and trimmed then we'll take some measurements. So let's do the sewing first Put our Pull our machine over Like I'm gonna try to have it like that. You won't really be able to see exactly what I'm doing But I think you'll get an idea. So here's the inside left flap and This part you're gonna be able to put things in this part put things in so these pockets this way Which will be for pens pencils rulers that kind of thing I want to sew to this if I sew them through all the layers Then you won't be able to get in here. So that'll be bad So we're gonna take and we're gonna sew them to this upper one We're gonna set that one aside and the first thing we're gonna do is do a line of stay stitching here across The top so that these will fray a little bit, but they won't go too far and I'm going to set my machine to sort of a medium straight stitch This is the little genome so it doesn't you know have a lot of choices, but that's all right I've got just some white thread in here. There's not much left on the bobbin So my guess is I won't get very far before I have to refill the bobbin Make sure you go back and forth at the beginning and end of each piece Thread came out of the needle. Okay, that's not helpful I'm like, why does that look funny? Because the thread came out of the needle Well, let's try that again. Shall we? I need my reading glasses for this the eye of the needle is teeny tiny As I'm threading that needle I will tell you this video will probably be in two or three parts so that I don't Bore you all with one super huge long video that being said there probably won't be too much of it That's sped through if I do that then you're gonna probably miss something important. So Just to warn you. I'm also gonna do all the way down one side of this piece and the bigger piece that this is gonna get sewn to I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing. Whoops Stitching about a quarter of an inch away from the fabric edge. Of course Trim it if you want to roll it and trim it. Now. I'm gonna just Snip them all apart sticking out sewing threads off The left side of our pocket. I'm gonna go ahead and pull some of these loose fraying threads off So the first thing I'm gonna do is put a label on the smallest pocket that says made by and my name I Have these new ones. I just got From Etsy, I'll try to put the link to the Etsy seller in the description below and They have cute little blue birds on them whether you tend on keeping the piece or Oops or selling it or giving it away. You should put a put a label on it Put your name on it sign your piece of artwork own it and be proud. Oops Had my foot on the pedal before I was ready again trim the threads Now we're gonna sew our smallest pocket to our biggest pocket I'm really doing this in a similar fashion to how I do the Travelers notebook covers I'm going to line this up with this edge here because that's really what we're gonna stitch down And then I can do the trimming from this other edge. I Think maybe I need to trim it first Let's see. I think I need to trim it first. All right. Let's trim this one. Use my might be easier this is a Fisker rotary tool if you're not using it with a ruler or Straight edge, please be careful and keep your fingers out of the way much better Now let's put this one And we can sew this down and then trim it so we're gonna sew the little pocket to the bigger pocket I'm gonna line them up at the bottom and Again, I'm gonna use that same quarter inch away from the edge seam allowance at the top of the small pocket Where I when I'm done with my stitching. I'm really going to go back and forth a couple of times in order to Give that some extra strength right there where it's attached And we're not going to worry about this part here We are going to stitch on it, but we'll do that in just a minute trim the threads Besides the travelers notebook sewing tutorial. I also have one for doing it on a composition book Somewhere on my channel So now that I have it sewn I'm gonna trim this excess fabric off The edge of the small pocket My table has a cutting mat on it. That's what this grid is So I can just do it right on my tabletop if you don't have that Then you're gonna want to put a cutting mat underneath where you're doing this if you're using a rotary tool Okay, I'm gonna put that over there because it's got a sharp blade on it. So I don't cut myself so now I'm gonna take the Smaller of the two left side pocket large pockets, and I'm gonna sew these smaller pockets to it lining them up at the bottom And I'm gonna sew them all the way straight down this edge double I'm going back and forth a few times at the top here And I'm also gonna sew them down over here the same way We'll see how this little machine does with all this thickness of fabric This is a lot of fabric and I really haven't sewn anything with this weight of canvas on this little machine With this many layers. So we'll see and at some point I may have to bring up the bigger machine But we'll find out I would like to see how this one does so We'll find out now. I'm gonna sew the other side. Oh That sounds like we need more bobbin thread All right, so let's pull that out Pull the bobbin out Pull the thread out of the top. I'm gonna wind the bobbin and I will be right back. Okay, I Think that's done, right? Let's find out. Oh, we're gonna sew this Set now we have a pocket here pocket here So we're gonna take this and we're gonna sew it to this bigger piece Around these three edges. So we have a pocket here Always hold your thread at the beginning and end when you start stitch or at the beginning when you start stitching So you don't get a big knot at the bottom underneath You can let it go after you make that first couple stitches You hear how the machine's a little bit louder. It's because there's a lot of fabric This little machine wasn't really made for sewing this kind of canvas as I'm going along You'll see me constantly doing this and taking The extra threads off once you have you know a few of them off It's gonna You'll start to get this fun frayed look and it will start to look less raggedy So that's the one side done with the pocket. So let's do the other side So for the other side, I want to do it a little differently So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to do my row of stay stitching a quarter inch in from each one of these Three edges these three long edges kind of find my thread ends. There we go Hey, once I've got them all sewn along that edge Then I'm gonna cut them apart and you'll notice that neither time Did I bother to separate my pieces of fabric and cut all the threads? I just kept sewing I don't know what you call that. It's just sort of a I used to work in manufacturing for a Chuck E cheese and You didn't stop in between pieces. You just kept going It wasted too much time To stop in between each set of Chuck E cheese ears. This should be pretty good So the first thing I want to do is take my smallest one and my next smallest one And I'm going to sew them so that we have pockets that go this way So I want to divide it into thirds. I think And I'm gonna just finger press it Because I really just need that line and then we're gonna stitch up that line Just like with the other pockets when you get to the top opening of the pocket Go back and forth a couple of times from all the threads. I'm gonna have to vacuum my room after this. Okay, and then We're gonna take now we have This and this and we have this so we're gonna take this piece of fabric and we're gonna sew it to this bigger piece Around these three edges and what that's gonna do is it's gonna give us one pocket and then these three smaller pockets And you'll notice I'm not pinning everything. I'm just sort of holding everything in place. I can't be bothered to take time for pins That's the honest truth Always when you need to turn the corner stop with the needle in your fabric Lift your presser foot up and then just turn the fabric and then keep going that'll give you a nice sharp corner This one has a little bit of extra fabric hanging over so I'm gonna trim it I don't mind a little bit extra fabric, but too much is too much So now we have this one which has a pocket here. It will have a pocket here and then these three little pockets already so now we're gonna take our inside piece and We are going to sew one to this end and one to this end So let's do one at a time. Oh, I was gonna measure the pockets for you Okay, so this is the one with the two pockets that go this way and the flap itself is About seven inches By about 11 and three-quarters and the pot this this bigger this smaller flap is About five and three-quarters And so are these two in width and then the height of the larger pocket this one is Seven and a quarter about and this one is about Four and three-quarters Okay, so let's sew this down. I got this canvas at Hobby Lobby Most of your fabric stores carry canvas or duck cloth, which is a really thick quality strong Canvas it comes in colors. I usually always use the natural, but it does come in colors This will be the test of this little machine if it can get through all these layers of canvas and stitch this down We'll try we'll see what happens. I'm actually gonna stitch this from the back side so I can make sure I don't miss any of the fabric Now that I'm thinking of it, so I'm gonna center it We go so you have this flap This flap and now these two pockets. All right, let's do the other side Now of course you could if you you know You don't like the frayed edge look then you could take time and hem all your edges or use bias tape or something You can hear the machine struggling a little bit But it's actually doing it much better than I thought it would to be really honest with you We have this other side with all these pockets on it before we go any further. Let's make sure it fits in the case