Sewing your Own Shoe Bag & Luggage Tag

Series Summary

Sewing is a very popular craft almost completely universally used. Its origin dates as far back as the Paleolithic age (30,000 BC) and is usually used to make clothing or home furnishings today. There are several different methods and stitches involved with sewing that all serve a unique purpose depending on what is being made. In recent centuries the advent of the sewing machine has made the process much easier and faster and has allowed garment makers to make a superior product in almost half the time. Today most of the sewing that is done by hand is for repairing damaged garments or finishing those started by machines.

This series will teach you all the steps to sewing your own shoe bag and luggage tag. There are so many things that you can make yourself by sewing that will not only save you money but last for a much longer time. Everything from pillows and quilts to shirts and pants sewing is one of those crafts that can start out of necessity and turn into a fun thing to do. Why buy it when you can make it yourself or at least fix it yourself.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel With Expert Village. I'm a clothing designer and a sewing instructor based in Los Angeles and I absolutely love sewing. I've been sewing since I was 14 and made pretty much all of my own clothing and some accessories I love to make throw pillows, curtains. One of my new favorite things is to make travel accessories I've been doing a lot of traveling the last couple of years, I've been spending a lot of time doing Seattle and Los Angeles and I also love road trips. So I've been driving back and forth I decide I needed some cool fun traveling accessories to keep in my luggage as well as a luggage tag. Just to make my traveling even more fun so that is what we're going to do today, is travel accessories. The first thing we're going to do is a really convenient shoe bag just a nice silky little bag to keep your shoes in so they don't dirty up your clothing or get ruined themselves. We're also going to make a really fun luggage tag that you can slip in your business card or your name and information and attach it to your luggage. The last thing we're going to make a small little valuables bag. It's just going to be a little zippered bag and I'm going to show you a fun zipper application that I just learned that is super easy and really cute."