Pinning the Sides for Handmade Purses

Video Transcript

"Hi. I?m Melina Piroso and welcome to Expert Village. Today, I?m going to show you how to make a cute little bag out of regular, everyday fabrics. In this next step we're going to pin together the two sides of our bag and cut them out. So, we're going to take our pin and we're going to pin the bag area. You don't want to pin the excess because you're going to cut this out. We're only going to pin the actual bag and you want to make to pin close to the edges because these are the parts that are going to move around when you cut them. You want to pin all of the edges. The best thing you can to make your life easier is put a lot of pins in so you have two very even pieces. And you can do a pin in the middle if you like. Another advantage of picking a semi-heavy fabric is that the pin marks aren't going to show."