Making the Drawstring for Sewing a Shoe Bag

Video Transcript

"Hi, I am Candi Cane-Canncel with Expert Village. So we have just sewn our casing. Now the next step is we are going to be lacing through a ribbon to make a draw string. So you just want to turn your bag back right side out. Pull out any pins you may have forgotten. Just trim all the little threads that what you just sewn. And you?re just going to take your ribbon or your rattail and you are going to figure out how long you need it. So in this case, our bag is 11 inches wide and we want to have a little extra. So I am going to go ahead and do it probably about 24 inches. So just go ahead and measure this out and you can just cut the extra. And you just take a safety pin and go ahead and pierce your ribbon or your rattail. You will want to do it double so it is really secure. You are going to start on one of the button holes. Hopefully, you remembered to slice open the button holes before you sewed your casing. You?re going to kind of squish your safety pin through the casing. All the way around. Now you don't want to come out the other button hole yet. We are going to do that after."