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Learn About Basic Sewing Projects
Learn What Supplies Are Needed to Make a Pillow
How to Cut a Pillow Out of Fabric
How to Pin a Pillow
How to Sew a Pillow
How to Turn & Iron a Pillow
How to Stuff a Pillow
How to Fuse a Pillow Closed
Learn What Supplies Are Needed to Make Your Own Bag
How to Prepare a Sewing Machine
How to Sew Your Bag With a Sewing Machine
How to Sew Both Sides of Your Bag Together With a Sewing Machine
How to Sew Trim on a Bag
How to Pin Handles to a Bag
How to Sew Handles to a Bag
How to Finish a Bag
Learn What Supplies are Needed to Make Your Own Headband
How to Pin a Headband
How to Sew a Headband
How to Insert Elastic into a Headband
How to Sew Elastic on a Headband
How to Finish a Headband
How to Make a Scrunchy
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Summary: Cutting out your fabric, choosing your yarn and preparing your sewing machine are all steps needed to create the perfect bag. Learn how to create your own masterpieces in this free video series that will have you mastering sewing projects in no time.
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"Hi, I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village and we are making our little fleece bag here. I've gone ahead and I cut my fleece, I folded the fabric in half and I cut it about 10 inches wide by about 8 1/2 inches in length. But again this is double the length because it is folded in half. This we're not going to cut this like we did with the pillow, we're going to go ahead and just leave this folded like that, we don't have to cut all three sides. So I like to use fleece because it's some easy fabric to work with, we don't have to finish it with a zigzag stitch. It isn't going to unravel on you. It holds up very nicely and it's easy to work with. So if you're just starting to learn how to sew, if this is one of your first projects, I think fleece is a very good choice in terms of fabric cause it's easy to work with. So go ahead cut out your fabric, get your sewing machine ready, pick out whatever color thread you want. The nice thing about fleece is you can see here, for this one I used pink thread and you can barely even see the color of the thread because of a pile it actually sinks in. So you have a little bit of room, a little bit of margin for error if you don't have exactly the right color thread. But go ahead get your sewing machine ready and in the next clip I'll show you how to sew it."
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