Rag Rug Bag

Rag rug bag

Posted by Ronja Lotte

About

The summer is here and I'm ecstatic! Again I have more daylight to take pictures, I don´t get frostbites anymore when I paint inside with open windows and most importantly, I can wear my beloved flip-flops again! If it were up to me I'd never wear other shoes. As uninterested as I am in shoes, as excited I'm about bags and so I made a new summer bag out of a rag rug.

Share

You Will Need (8 things)

  • Sewing Machine
  • Sewing Equipment
  • Sewing Needle
  • Sewing Yarn
  • 2 stripes of Fabric (43 cm X 11 cm)
  • 2 stripes of Fabric (7 cm X 137 cm)
  • 1 Rag Rug (60 cm X 38 cm)
  • 2 pieces of white Fabric (72 cm X 26 cm)

Steps (10 steps, 120 minutes)

  1. 1

    First I cut the rag rug into two halves.

  2. 2

    Next I made some sort of bias tape out of the short gray stripes...

  3. 3

    ... and sewed this carefully around the cut sides of the rag rug.

  4. 4

    Then I put the two halves of the rag rug right sides together and stitched the two sides down.

  5. 5

    Now you have to invert your bag and sew the bottom with the fringes closed. It´s best to do this with several seams.

  6. 6

    Next, I finished the bag strap. For this I made bias tape out of the two long gray stripes and sewed both, left sides facing, together.

  7. 7

    Finished bag strap

  8. 8

    Now we come to the inner lining. For this you have to put the two white fabrics on top of each other and sew the two short sides and one long side together.

  9. 9

    At the last step, my sewing machine gave up because the fabric was too thick and so I hand stitched the bag strap to both sides of the bag, over the side seam.

  10. 10

    Finished bag