Sewing the Sides of a Homemade Tote Bag

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Terri Turco with Expert Village. As you see we have enclosed the one opening and notice I have used blue thread. But obviously whatever fabric you are working with make sure the thread is matching. But you are really not going to see it but in the event you can keep it matching. We have left a opening on this end and that is really important one end you have to leave a opening. Which means we go to the other end right there are 2 ends. So here we are at the second end and what we are going to do with this is we are going to close this up entirely. So turn your fabric, make sure there is no pins, put it underneath and I always start with putting the needle down so it does not gap. You just start sewing and you go all the way down to the other end. Okay you are going to finish this edge in its entirely. You get to the very end and a good thing I always suggest is go back and forth with that back up button. Just so it really stays put you don't have to worry about fraying or your purse coming apart. You just cut the thread at the very end after you have gone back and forth to really stabilize it. Then we are going to turn it inside out so when we come back I'm going to meet you at the ironing board so we can finally put this all together. Hurry back we are almost done."