Cutting the Bottom Section: Sewing a Zipper Backpack

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village. Let's start by making the bottom of the bag section. You want to take a piece of fabric and fold it in half doubled up. We are going to measure out two pieces nine and a half by four and a half inches (9 1/2 x4 1/2). So here we would measure and cut nine and a half by four and a half inches. That is nine and a half and we would measure four and a half. Now you can measure it like this and cut it our you can mark it with a pen or a pencil or a fabric marker. I'm going to cut right along the fold and now we want to because this is the bottom of the bag. We want it to be good and heavy and stiff. I'm going to cut two pieces the same size of iron on interfacing. It is about medium thickness iron on interfacing and you can choose a interfacing as thick as you want. This can be a double layer on the bottom and a double layer of iron on interfacing. So it would have a good sturdy bottom. So you cut those to the same size and then iron them on. Next we would quilt them together, first we need to iron on. You want to check your iron on interfacing the shiny side is the part that will melt and will inhere to the fabric. So you want to make sure that it is shiny side down or you would get it stuck to your iron. Just iron that on like so, you really don't need the steam from this. You want to check in the light to see that shiny side and make sure the shiny side is what you are inhering to the fabric. Just easy. You can inhere the iron interfacing just by pressing down firmly with the iron. You don't want to rub too hard because it shifts the interfacing. You can sometimes a little bit of a color change that shows a little inhered to the fabric. You see it has stiffing up the fabric quiet a bit and it is as well inhere to the fabric. Next we would go to the machine and we would quilt these two pieces together. "