Make a Jeans Tote Bag: Sew on Straps

Video Transcript

"Now I'll show you how to install our strap to our bag. You want to choose the bag that's going to be on the outside, and I'm going to place my strap just on the waistband here and beside the belt loop, and then we'll sew those on. And again, over here so that it overlaps down on the waistband so that we can do some good reinforcing sewing to attach it. You're going to be sewing one to the front like this, and then also in the back. So to have them match, you can lay it like that and then place it in the same position on the back. And then we'll go to the sewing machine and sew them on. Okay, put your pants on the machine. There's the straps. And we're going to sew. We want to sew a little box with a criss cross in it to make sure that this is sewed on really well. So go right across the top, put your needle down and lift the pressure foot and pivot the material around, and then sew down almost to the bottom of the waistband making sure that you're catching the strap underneath. Put the needle down again, and we're going to sew a little box. And before you go off the strap again, put the needle down and pivot the material. When you get to the corner, again, put the needle down and we'll pivot the machine, pivot the fabric, and we'll sew from this corner to this corner. We're going to make an X inside the box. And lift, go back up to this top edge and put the needle in, turn the material, and we're going to be sewing from this corner to this corner. Now we have a nicely sewn on strap. It'll be nice and strong. And make sure you back, back and forth a little to secure that. You want to sew all the straps on like this."