WEBVTT 00:00:03.780 --> 00:00:04.780 Hello! 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 00:00:08.069 --> 00:00:11.680 things you found on the internet and then I do my best to recreate them! 00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:13.820 So first off – show of hands if you love puns. 00:00:13.820 --> 00:00:14.820 GUYS. 00:00:14.820 --> 00:00:18.900 Today’s challenge, sent to me by Norie, is probably one of my favourite Make Thrift 00:00:18.900 --> 00:00:20.570 Buy suggestions so far. 00:00:20.570 --> 00:00:21.570 It’s a HAND. 00:00:21.570 --> 00:00:22.570 BAG. 00:00:22.570 --> 00:00:23.570 A hand. 00:00:23.570 --> 00:00:24.570 Bag. 00:00:24.570 --> 00:00:25.560 Get it? 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:26.750 The whole item is a pun. 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:27.760 It’s so beautiful. 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:32.320 The original design comes from a Japanese brand called MerryJenny from a year-old collection 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 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:41.659 knockoff of this bag – which, actually no, not even that’s available anymore – well, 00:00:41.659 --> 00:00:44.829 this item is pretty much impossible to get your hands on. 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 00:00:48.379 --> 00:00:49.510 for ourselves. 00:00:49.510 --> 00:00:50.551 Fingers crossed we nail it! 00:00:50.551 --> 00:00:53.809 This, and more puns, await you in this tutorial. 00:00:53.809 --> 00:00:54.909 So let’s get started. 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 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:00.900 pretty much backwards, and for that reason 00:01:00.900 --> 00:01:02.809 it took me two frickken DAYS to complete, 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 00:01:05.990 --> 00:01:07.670 take you about 3-4 hours. 00:01:07.670 --> 00:01:09.390 Just do as I say, not as I do. 00:01:09.390 --> 00:01:12.950 Anyway with that said, the first thing I did was to collect up my fabrics. 00:01:12.950 --> 00:01:19.280 Both fabrics are woven (which means, non-stretchy) cottons which are mid-to-heavy weight – like 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:20.729 linen consistency. 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 00:01:24.909 --> 00:01:27.380 will make up the straps and the hands of the bag. 00:01:27.380 --> 00:01:31.289 The first thing that I did was to cut 3 rectangles out of my fabrics. 00:01:31.289 --> 00:01:35.420 The two straps are both 42 inches long and 6 inches wide. 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 00:01:39.329 --> 00:01:41.409 I like my tote bags to have longer straps. 00:01:41.409 --> 00:01:45.049 The bag fabric is 36 inches long and 16 inches wide. 00:01:45.049 --> 00:01:47.520 So first, I’m going to make a simple tote bag. 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 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:54.619 to hold them together, and then I sewed down the sides like this. 00:01:54.619 --> 00:01:59.219 Next, with the bag still inside-out, I’m going to “box” the two bottom corners. 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, 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 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:10.890 the side seam ends up right in the middle of the corner. 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. 00:02:15.510 --> 00:02:17.530 Then, I sewed straight across here. 00:02:17.530 --> 00:02:22.180 After this corner was sewn, I chopped off the corner close to the stitches, repeated 00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:24.610 this on the other side, and I ended up with this. 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. 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 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:35.600 then I sewed all the way around the top, to make a hem. 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 00:02:42.959 --> 00:02:46.120 this, bringing the edges in to meet at the centre. 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.760 I ironed these folds in place, all the way down the length of the strap. 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:54.459 Then, I folded THIS in half, and then I ironed the whole strap flat. 00:02:54.459 --> 00:02:56.099 And then I repeated this for the other strap. 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 00:02:59.570 --> 00:03:02.240 chose this pale grey as a nice, subtle contrast. 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 00:03:07.580 --> 00:03:11.360 end, and then I sewed down both sides of each strap like this. 00:03:16.460 --> 00:03:19.240 And this is what each finished strap looks like. 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 00:03:23.909 --> 00:03:24.909 sew them on yet. 00:03:24.909 --> 00:03:29.319 And this is the point where I started doing EVERYTHING backwards – because I decided 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 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:34.879 was not the best thing to do. 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 00:03:39.150 --> 00:03:42.770 the strap, and I drew a hand shape on to it with chalk. 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 00:03:47.989 --> 00:03:49.989 of 4 layers of fabric underneath. 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 00:03:54.629 --> 00:03:56.530 all 4 hands at once. 00:03:56.530 --> 00:04:00.100 SO, this is the bit you hands-down SHOULD NOT follow. 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 00:04:04.870 --> 00:04:10.400 you should just sew them directly onto iron-on patches – they’re these guys – instead. 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 00:04:14.670 --> 00:04:19.440 up the hands, but I highly recommend, from my own firsthand experience, that you either 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. 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 00:04:28.940 --> 00:04:32.370 – and this is totally optional, I just wanted to keep the fabric underneath taut – and 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 00:04:36.961 --> 00:04:41.041 to basically nothing - I went around the edges of each hand like this. 00:04:47.020 --> 00:04:48.620 So that gave me this. 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 00:04:53.330 --> 00:04:57.090 in contrasting colours – I used purple and red for the nailpolish - 00:04:57.090 --> 00:05:01.960 And this is where we really ran into trouble, because the repeated zig-zag stitching caused 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 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:08.530 think looked particularly good. 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 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:18.080 – and I basically made this patches exactly in the same way as I did 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:20.140 in my alien t-shirt DIY. 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 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:25.440 to the stitches. 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:28.120 This will stop the fabric from fraying when I cut them out. 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. 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 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 00:05:40.130 --> 00:05:41.130 the edges. 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. 00:05:45.910 --> 00:05:48.500 I repeated this for all the others to give myself 4 hand patches. 00:05:48.500 --> 00:05:51.639 You gotta hand it to me - I improvised pretty well there. 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 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 00:06:01.139 --> 00:06:03.850 edge of the fabric, by ironing them on. 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 00:06:07.530 --> 00:06:11.580 time around – folded it in half, sewed down the sides, boxed the corners, sewed a hem 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 00:06:15.390 --> 00:06:16.390 on the straps. 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 00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:24.420 lines of straight stitches here and here. 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.960 After repeating this on the other side I now have a hand bag. 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:29.490 So, how does it look? 00:06:29.490 --> 00:06:30.750 How did I go? 00:06:31.340 --> 00:06:34.480 (Music plays) 00:06:53.820 --> 00:06:55.509 I LOVE how this turned out. 00:06:55.509 --> 00:06:59.879 This is my new favourite shopping bag, my new favourite pool bag – I love it. 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 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 00:07:07.630 --> 00:07:08.630 with the basics. 00:07:08.630 --> 00:07:09.810 We can get fancy later on. 00:07:09.810 --> 00:07:12.410 Anyway, my conclusion is: (scissor-snipping sound effect) 00:07:12.410 --> 00:07:14.430 THUMBS UP if you liked this tutorial! 00:07:14.430 --> 00:07:18.240 This bag is pretty cute(ical), don't you think! 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:18.880 Hey no wait! 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:19.560 Camera, no wait! 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.000 No, I'm sorry, I'll stop making hand puns! 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:21.960 Camera, wait! 00:07:21.960 --> 00:07:22.620 No! 00:07:22.620 --> 00:07:24.100 Come on, lend me a hand! 00:07:24.100 --> 00:07:25.100 (scary music plays) 00:07:25.100 --> 00:07:28.260 Wait no, I mean I didn't - I didn't mean to make another hand pun - 00:07:28.270 --> 00:07:29.270 I'm sorry! 00:07:29.270 --> 00:07:30.520 Um, oh man. 00:07:30.520 --> 00:07:31.920 This has gotten TOTALLY out of hand! 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:32.660 No, wait, no! 00:07:32.660 --> 00:07:34.040 [THUD] (Silence) 00:07:35.740 --> 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