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Hello, and welcome back to another episode
of Make Thrift Buy, the show where I...
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have a cold.
BUT also, you send me pictures of clothes
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that you've found on the internet, and I try
my best to recreate them!
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Today's challenge was suggested by the lovely
ada_oline, who wanted me to try out this silvery
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drawstring bag. I found this bag on a couple
of different sites, including some Etsy stores,
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Ebay... I basically found this bag everywhere.
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Drawstring bags are pretty simple.
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So, we'll get started!
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The special materials I needed for this project
were some silver fabric, an eyelet or grommet
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kit with tools, and approximately 74 inches
of rope.
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I started out by cutting out my bag material.
To do this, I folded my silver material in
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half, right-sides together, and on the wrong-side
of the fabric, I drew a rectangle that was
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13 by 17 inches.
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I then put some pins through
both pieces of fabric to hold them together,
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then cut out the rectangle, making sure to
cut through both pieces of fabric. By folding
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my material in half before cutting, I’ve
saved time by cutting out both pieces at once.
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Then, I leave the pins in the material, and
I sew around the edges of the bag like this.
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I make sure to leave 2 inches not sewn up
the top here, and I also don’t sew the top edge.
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I’m using an overlocker to sew - because
it’s fast and I’m lazy - but you can definitely
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also just use a normal straight stitch on
a sewing machine, or even hand-sew this with
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a needle and thread.
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When you’re done, your two rectangles should
be sewed together, right-sides together, like
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this. And I know you can’t see my stitches
here because I was using light-coloured thread,
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but they *are* there, and they look like this.
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Next, I folded down this top, unsewn edge,
by ONE inch, like this.
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And then I pinned this edge down all the way
around the top of the bag, so that I had this.
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And then I sewed all the way around the bag,
to create a kind of tube on both the front
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and back sides of the bag, like this.
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When you get to the side seam of your bag,
you should stop sewing, lift up your needle
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and cut the threads, and start again on the
other side of the seam, so that you get two
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tubes, one of the front and one on the back
of the bag.
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When I was done sewing, I turned my bag the
right way around! And, I also pushed out the
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corners of the bag using a ruler.
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Then, on the two bottom corners, I sewed over
the top of each corner like this. Just make
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sure that this corner is big enough for your
eyelet to fit inside.
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Okay, so now it’s time to set the eyelets!
Now, this is the eyelet kit that I bought.
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DO NOT get this brand of eyelets – which
is called Sullivan’s – this kit was totally
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wrong and incomplete just and didn’t….
work. And also led me to ruin most of my eyelets
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while I was practicing, and, as you can see,
my table!
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Anyway, I got it to work because I found an
anvil and a tool that I could use in another
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button kit that I owned – Thanks, NEWEY
– so I inserted my eyelets by making a little
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hole in the middle of that corner triangle,
making the hole bigger using a pen, inserting
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this larger eyelet piece through the hole,
placing the anvil underneath, then placing
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the washer over the top, putting this tool
thingy in the middle, and then bashing the
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whole thing down with a hammer. Which gave
me this pretty eyelet in my fabric. Hooray!
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I repeated this on both the bottom corners
of the bag.
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Now it’s time to add the bag straps. So,
I cut myself about 74 inches of rope.
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Then, I threaded the rope as follows:
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First, through one of the eyelets, and I tied
a knot in the short end.
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Then, I inserted a safety pin into the other
end of the rope to help guide it, and I threaded
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the rope through the top tube.
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...and then I
pulled it through until the strap on the left
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was about the right length for a bag.
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Then I threaded the rope through the BACK
tube, and out the other end.
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And I pulled the excess rope all the way through.
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Then I threaded the rope, once again, through
this TOP tube. So, there are two layers of
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rope going through the top tube now. Because
of this, it can be a bit hard to get the rope
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in there, but keep persevering and you’ll
get it there eventually.
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I pulled this rope all the way through, and
then threaded it though the last eyelet...
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...and I tied a knot in the end, and snipped off
the excess rope.
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Then, I tried the bag on, found the rope to
be a little bit too long, so I cut it shorter
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at the ends and re-tied the knots until both
the straps were about the right length.
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And that’s it.
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So, how did I go?
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[music plays]
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So - I am *really* please with how this one
turned out! And my conclusion is a definite
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[scissors snipping sound effect]
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Yeah - you can really easily make this for
yourself, even if you're a beginning sewer
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- in fact, if you're new to sewing, I think
that this is a really good project to be one
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of your first projects, because you don't
have to sew too much, you're only ever sewing
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straight lines - in fact, considering how
easy this is to make, it's kind of outrageous
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the amount that I found for it online.
But, if you make this for yourself, and even
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if you buy all the materials new, you're not
going to be spending more than $10 or $15
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on this.
So that's it from me for today! I hope you're
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all having a really good day, and I'll see
you all for my next video.