My mother and I received several little purses like this from my aunt in Japan- so of course we had to figure out how it was done. Her's were made from finished table napkins that had embroideries on the corner, she also dogg-earred the lower corners as shown in the final 'variation' pic (I was unable to do that with my example bag because of the bulky pre-patch fabric paired with eyelet).
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Materials:
Finished square of fabric- any size works, the bigger the square the bigger the bag (finished cloth dinner napkins work great, for the example I used 2 14" squares of fabric bound in FOE)
Something to use as drawstring (I used bias trim that I stitched closed, I have also used ribbon/leather strap/jute cord......)
Step1:
Get your fabric square (if it is a finished napkin then nothing is needed to be done, if you need to turn and topstitch/hem edges/bind edges then do that now)
Step2:
Fold in half as triagle and mark a line approximately (or a little under) 1/3 of the measurement from the point to the fold line.
Stitch on that line, backstitching at beginning and end.
Step3:
Flip right sides out (really there is no right and wrong side, just flip opposite of how you had it). *OPTIONAL* Mark center line.
*OPTIONAL* Stitch on that line.
Step4:
Fold in half
Stitch close to fold on each side
Step5:
Fold down flaps and stitch a casing wide enough for your drawstring, I chose 1/2" from fold.
Steo6:
Cut and thread drawstring.
Finished:
*note the 14" square I used produced a 6"x6.5" bag- a 18-22" dinner napkin produces a nice size bag, also note that there is a front and back outer pocket if you chose to do the stitching in step3*
Variations:
You may choose to dog-earr the lower corners of your bag as shown here
I will add more example pics I as find the pictures or make more.
Thanks for sewing with me!
Sarah
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