Make a Jeans Handbag: Pinning Bottom Panel

Video Transcript

"Now I'll show you how to pin our bottom panel in so that we can sew it. First you want to start by trimming this side so that it's nice and straight, and you don't have; I had a little bulky seam thing here I wanted to take off. And we'll turn our pants panel inside out like that; we're going to start at the side, at the side seam and decide which is going to be the outside of the bottom. Mine are the same so I don't really; it really doesn't matter which side I'm putting on the bottom and you put right sides together. So I've turned the piece inside out and I opened up to the side, and this is the right side of the fabric and I'm going to place the right side of the bottom panel; you can fold it in half and find the center and lay the center right on that side seam like that, and put some pins in here. Now I'm placing the pin 1/2 an inch from the edge and pinning it here; I'm going to do a 1/2 inch seam allowance all around. So I'm placing it a 1/2 inch there and you can put three pins in; that's good to hold that small side. Now turn the pants over and see how I just go around the corner; now you can just put a small snip in here, right at the corner; just a tiny snit about 1/4 inch. So I just did a small snip at the corner and I put the two pieces together; again its right sides together and we're just following the edge of this bottom panel that we made and secure it with a pin. And you can pin that just follow all the way down holding the three; the bottom panel together with the bottom of the bag. You can place your pins as close or as far as you want. And then when you get to the end here, we want to see how much; how wide we needed to do this side so we got 4, about 4 1/2 inches there and so we need; we want that same amount o.k., 4 1/2 inches to finish; to place our bottom there. So this is going to be the center of the other side and we're going to be going around the corner. So at this point we'll cut off; we'll trim our bottom panel because we're going to take the corner there; we're going to turn around, take the corner there. So we're going to trim it to... o.k. and then continue pinning so the side seam; that side seam should be in the center of our bottom panel and then come around and pin the other side, and just place your pins all the way around and then; then we'll go to the machine and sew in our bottom panel."