1 00:00:03,780 --> 00:00:04,780 Hello! 2 00:00:04,780 --> 00:00:08,069 Welcome to a brand new episode of Make, Thrift, Buy, the show where you guys send in cool 3 00:00:08,069 --> 00:00:11,680 things you found on the internet and then I do my best to recreate them! 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,820 So first off – show of hands if you love puns. 5 00:00:13,820 --> 00:00:14,820 GUYS. 6 00:00:14,820 --> 00:00:18,900 Today’s challenge, sent to me by Norie, is probably one of my favourite Make Thrift 7 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:20,570 Buy suggestions so far. 8 00:00:20,570 --> 00:00:21,570 It’s a HAND. 9 00:00:21,570 --> 00:00:22,570 BAG. 10 00:00:22,570 --> 00:00:23,570 A hand. 11 00:00:23,570 --> 00:00:24,570 Bag. 12 00:00:24,570 --> 00:00:25,560 Get it? 13 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:26,750 The whole item is a pun. 14 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:27,760 It’s so beautiful. 15 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,320 The original design comes from a Japanese brand called MerryJenny from a year-old collection 16 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,140 – so unless you live in Japan, and time-travel back a year ago, or you buy a cheap wholesale 17 00:00:37,140 --> 00:00:41,659 knockoff of this bag – which, actually no, not even that’s available anymore – well, 18 00:00:41,659 --> 00:00:44,829 this item is pretty much impossible to get your hands on. 19 00:00:44,829 --> 00:00:48,379 Luckily, I’m pretty handy when it comes to DIY, so I'm pretty sure we can make this 20 00:00:48,379 --> 00:00:49,510 for ourselves. 21 00:00:49,510 --> 00:00:50,551 Fingers crossed we nail it! 22 00:00:50,551 --> 00:00:53,809 This, and more puns, await you in this tutorial. 23 00:00:53,809 --> 00:00:54,909 So let’s get started. 24 00:00:54,909 --> 00:00:58,800 So before we start I just want to say, I did pretty much everything about this project 25 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,900 pretty much backwards, and for that reason 26 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:02,809 it took me two frickken DAYS to complete, 27 00:01:02,809 --> 00:01:05,990 but if you do this project in a much more logical way than I did then it will probably 28 00:01:05,990 --> 00:01:07,670 take you about 3-4 hours. 29 00:01:07,670 --> 00:01:09,390 Just do as I say, not as I do. 30 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:12,950 Anyway with that said, the first thing I did was to collect up my fabrics. 31 00:01:12,950 --> 00:01:19,280 Both fabrics are woven (which means, non-stretchy) cottons which are mid-to-heavy weight – like 32 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:20,729 linen consistency. 33 00:01:20,729 --> 00:01:24,909 The black cotton will make up the bag portion of the tote, and this purpley-pink fabric 34 00:01:24,909 --> 00:01:27,380 will make up the straps and the hands of the bag. 35 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:31,289 The first thing that I did was to cut 3 rectangles out of my fabrics. 36 00:01:31,289 --> 00:01:35,420 The two straps are both 42 inches long and 6 inches wide. 37 00:01:35,420 --> 00:01:39,329 I wanted these to be LONGER than the length of the straps on the original bag, because 38 00:01:39,329 --> 00:01:41,409 I like my tote bags to have longer straps. 39 00:01:41,409 --> 00:01:45,049 The bag fabric is 36 inches long and 16 inches wide. 40 00:01:45,049 --> 00:01:47,520 So first, I’m going to make a simple tote bag. 41 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,360 To do this, I folded the bag fabric in half length-ways, put pins through both layers 42 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,619 to hold them together, and then I sewed down the sides like this. 43 00:01:54,619 --> 00:01:59,219 Next, with the bag still inside-out, I’m going to “box” the two bottom corners. 44 00:01:59,219 --> 00:02:03,500 To do this, first I cut away some of the excess fabric at the seam, about 2 inches worth, 45 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:07,820 and then I pulled the corner out like this, and then I folded this bottom corner so that 46 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:10,890 the side seam ends up right in the middle of the corner. 47 00:02:10,890 --> 00:02:15,510 Then, I drew a straight line 2 inches up from the corner point to make a triangle. 48 00:02:15,510 --> 00:02:17,530 Then, I sewed straight across here. 49 00:02:17,530 --> 00:02:22,180 After this corner was sewn, I chopped off the corner close to the stitches, repeated 50 00:02:22,180 --> 00:02:24,610 this on the other side, and I ended up with this. 51 00:02:24,610 --> 00:02:28,310 The bottom of the bag will now look really nice when it’s turned the right way around. 52 00:02:28,310 --> 00:02:32,920 While the bag was still inside out, I folded the top down about 1 and a half inches, and 53 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,600 then I sewed all the way around the top, to make a hem. 54 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,959 To make the straps, I laid each one on my ironing-board, and first I folded them like 55 00:02:42,959 --> 00:02:46,120 this, bringing the edges in to meet at the centre. 56 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,760 I ironed these folds in place, all the way down the length of the strap. 57 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,459 Then, I folded THIS in half, and then I ironed the whole strap flat. 58 00:02:54,459 --> 00:02:56,099 And then I repeated this for the other strap. 59 00:02:56,099 --> 00:02:59,570 Now unfortunately, I didn’t have a thread that matched the colour of my fabric, so I 60 00:02:59,570 --> 00:03:02,240 chose this pale grey as a nice, subtle contrast. 61 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:07,580 Then, I folded down the end of each strap like this, and I sewed a box shape down the 62 00:03:07,580 --> 00:03:11,360 end, and then I sewed down both sides of each strap like this. 63 00:03:16,460 --> 00:03:19,240 And this is what each finished strap looks like. 64 00:03:19,250 --> 00:03:23,909 Next, I placed the straps approximately where I wanted them to go on the bag, but I didn’t 65 00:03:23,909 --> 00:03:24,909 sew them on yet. 66 00:03:24,909 --> 00:03:29,319 And this is the point where I started doing EVERYTHING backwards – because I decided 67 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:33,540 that I would try and sew the hands directly onto the bag itself, which I later realised 68 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:34,879 was not the best thing to do. 69 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:39,150 Anyway, to get the right size for each of the hands, I lined up this fabric underneath 70 00:03:39,150 --> 00:03:42,770 the strap, and I drew a hand shape on to it with chalk. 71 00:03:42,770 --> 00:03:47,989 Then I folded this fabric over on itself once, and then twice, so that there were a total 72 00:03:47,989 --> 00:03:49,989 of 4 layers of fabric underneath. 73 00:03:49,989 --> 00:03:54,629 I stuck some pins into the hand shape to stop the fabric from moving, and then I cut out 74 00:03:54,629 --> 00:03:56,530 all 4 hands at once. 75 00:03:56,530 --> 00:04:00,100 SO, this is the bit you hands-down SHOULD NOT follow. 76 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:04,870 I sewed the hands down directly onto my tote bag in the positions that I wanted them, BUT 77 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:10,400 you should just sew them directly onto iron-on patches – they’re these guys – instead. 78 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,670 All the sewing still happens in the same way as I do here, so I’ll show you how I sewed 79 00:04:14,670 --> 00:04:19,440 up the hands, but I highly recommend, from my own firsthand experience, that you either 80 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,310 sew these onto scrap fabric or iron on patches, and NOT directly on to the tote bag. 81 00:04:24,310 --> 00:04:28,940 So, I attached each hand to the fabric underneath by first throwing it into an embroidery hoop 82 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:32,370 – and this is totally optional, I just wanted to keep the fabric underneath taut – and 83 00:04:32,370 --> 00:04:36,961 then using a very short zig-zag stitch - here is me reducing the length of my zig-zag stitch 84 00:04:36,961 --> 00:04:41,041 to basically nothing - I went around the edges of each hand like this. 85 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:48,620 So that gave me this. 86 00:04:48,630 --> 00:04:53,330 Then, I stitched on the fingernails on in a similar way, using a wide zig zag stitch 87 00:04:53,330 --> 00:04:57,090 in contrasting colours – I used purple and red for the nailpolish - 88 00:04:57,090 --> 00:05:01,960 And this is where we really ran into trouble, because the repeated zig-zag stitching caused 89 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:06,500 the fabric to pinch and bunch up around the edges of the hand applique, which I didn't 90 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:08,530 think looked particularly good. 91 00:05:08,530 --> 00:05:14,080 So I decided to scrap this bag, but I saved the hands on it and turned them into PATCHES 92 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,080 – and I basically made this patches exactly in the same way as I did 93 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,140 in my alien t-shirt DIY. 94 00:05:20,150 --> 00:05:24,180 So first, I grabbed my fabric glue and I painted a thin line of glue around the edges, close 95 00:05:24,180 --> 00:05:25,440 to the stitches. 96 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,120 This will stop the fabric from fraying when I cut them out. 97 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,000 And then, I cut the hands out of the fabric, really close to those zig-zag stitches. 98 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,310 I then placed each hand down on top of an iron-on patch – It was a LITTLE bit too 99 00:05:36,310 --> 00:05:40,130 small for the patch, but I made it work – and I sewed them on to the patches right around 100 00:05:40,130 --> 00:05:41,130 the edges. 101 00:05:41,130 --> 00:05:45,910 Then I cut all of this out, around the hand’s outline – and I’ve got myself a hand patch. 102 00:05:45,910 --> 00:05:48,500 I repeated this for all the others to give myself 4 hand patches. 103 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:51,639 You gotta hand it to me - I improvised pretty well there. 104 00:05:51,639 --> 00:05:56,500 So then, I started the tote again from scratch – BUT FIRST, I’m going to apply the hands 105 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:01,139 up both ends like this, each matching pair about 2 and a half inches away from the top 106 00:06:01,139 --> 00:06:03,850 edge of the fabric, by ironing them on. 107 00:06:03,850 --> 00:06:07,530 And once they were ironed on, I made the bag exactly in the same way as I did the first 108 00:06:07,530 --> 00:06:11,580 time around – folded it in half, sewed down the sides, boxed the corners, sewed a hem 109 00:06:11,580 --> 00:06:15,390 around the top, and I’ve now got a bag with hands on it, and all I have to do is to sew 110 00:06:15,390 --> 00:06:16,390 on the straps. 111 00:06:16,390 --> 00:06:22,020 I attached each strap to one pair of matching hands, like this, sewing them on using two 112 00:06:22,020 --> 00:06:24,420 lines of straight stitches here and here. 113 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:27,960 After repeating this on the other side I now have a hand bag. 114 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:29,490 So, how does it look? 115 00:06:29,490 --> 00:06:30,750 How did I go? 116 00:06:31,340 --> 00:06:34,480 (Music plays) 117 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:55,509 I LOVE how this turned out. 118 00:06:55,509 --> 00:06:59,879 This is my new favourite shopping bag, my new favourite pool bag – I love it. 119 00:06:59,879 --> 00:07:03,510 I’m probably going to add a small pocket on the inside as well, might even do a lined 120 00:07:03,510 --> 00:07:07,630 version – but because this was the first ever tote bag I'd ever made, I wanted to start 121 00:07:07,630 --> 00:07:08,630 with the basics. 122 00:07:08,630 --> 00:07:09,810 We can get fancy later on. 123 00:07:09,810 --> 00:07:12,410 Anyway, my conclusion is: (scissor-snipping sound effect) 124 00:07:12,410 --> 00:07:14,430 THUMBS UP if you liked this tutorial! 125 00:07:14,430 --> 00:07:18,240 This bag is pretty cute(ical), don't you think! 126 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:18,880 Hey no wait! 127 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:19,560 Camera, no wait! 128 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,000 No, I'm sorry, I'll stop making hand puns! 129 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:21,960 Camera, wait! 130 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:22,620 No! 131 00:07:22,620 --> 00:07:24,100 Come on, lend me a hand! 132 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:25,100 (scary music plays) 133 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:28,260 Wait no, I mean I didn't - I didn't mean to make another hand pun - 134 00:07:28,270 --> 00:07:29,270 I'm sorry! 135 00:07:29,270 --> 00:07:30,520 Um, oh man. 136 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:31,920 This has gotten TOTALLY out of hand! 137 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:32,660 No, wait, no! 138 00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:34,040 [THUD] (Silence) 139 00:07:35,740 --> 00:07:40,620 In all seriousness, if you liked this video, and you like the content that I produce, consider 140 00:07:40,630 --> 00:07:45,220 helping to support this community by going to patreon.com/annikavictoria. 141 00:07:45,220 --> 00:07:49,389 Any amount, even $1 per video - even $1 per month! - helps out a TONNE. 142 00:07:49,389 --> 00:07:51,510 This studio space that I'm filming in right now? 143 00:07:51,510 --> 00:07:53,520 Wouldn’t be possible without my Patreon fam. 144 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:58,190 In fact, nothing would even be filming right 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