Description
This pattern makes a large zipper-top bag, 18 inches wide, 12 inches deep, and 14 inches tall, with two pockets outside and two inside. The pattern includes two stainless steel stays, which slide into a channel at the top of the bag and give it strength and shape. You can channel stitch one focus fabric for the bag body, or stitch and flip 2 1/2 inch strips.
What the Pattern Includes
The printed pattern and two Size B stainless steel stays with protective tips, enough for one bag. The directions cover non-directional prints and prints that run selvage to selvage, with separate notes for prints that run parallel to the selvage. This listing does not include fabric, interfacing, zipper, tubing, or thread.
For a second bag, or to replace the stays in a finished one, the Size B bag stays (AT627) come in a 2-pack.
What You'll Need
- Outside bag body and pockets: 1 yard of focus fabric; for the strip bag, 26 strips 2 1/2 inches wide cover both the inside and the outside
- Inside bag body and pockets (focus fabric bag): 1 yard of the focus fabric, a second fabric, or some of each; for a horizontal directional print, 2 yards covers the inside and outside together
- Pockets (strip bag): 3/8 yard
- Pocket lining, bottom, and handles: 1 yard
- Binding, sashing, zipper bows, and tabs: 1/2 yard of a third fabric
- Bag body interfacing: 1 yard of Bosal In-R-Form Plus (58 inches wide), for either style
- Bottom: 3/4 yard of stiff double-sided fusible interfacing, 20 inches wide (Bosal Craf-Tex Plus or Pellon 72F), or Bosal's precut Large Camden Bag Bottoms
- Stays: the pattern includes two
- Handles: 5 feet of 1/4 inch plumbing tubing
- Zipper: one 30 inch double-slide handbag zipper that opens at both ends; the pattern calls for ByAnnie's, and ByAnnie's Zippers by the Yard make one from the tape and two pulls
- Thread: piecing thread to match all fabrics, and 12 weight cotton thread (Aurifil or Sulky) to match the binding fabric, for hand sewing
- Tools: sewing machine with a walking foot, iron, parchment paper or a Teflon sheet, removable marker or chalk, large and small scissors, pins, Clover Wonder Clips, 60 mm rotary cutter, mat, and acrylic rulers, seam ripper, size 7 milliner's needles, and a tape measure
Perfect For
- A large zipper-top bag with pockets inside and out
- Showing a large-scale print or a fabric panel on the outside pocket
- A strip-pieced bag from 26 precut 2 1/2 inch strips
- A set of Poppins bags in graduated sizes
Fit and Limits
The pattern makes one size, 18 x 12 x 14 inches. Aunties Two publishes three other Poppins patterns, each with its own stays: the Giant Poppins Bag (24 inches wide, 12 deep, and 20 tall), the Little Poppins Bag (13 inches wide and 9 deep, in 12 or 9 inch heights), and the Mini Poppins Bag (9 inches wide and 7 deep, in 7 or 5 inch heights).
Aunties Two does not publish a skill level. The construction includes channel stitching through double-sided fusible foam interfacing, a 30 inch double-slide zipper, 1/4 inch plumbing tubing in the handles, and hand sewing with 12 weight thread, and the supply list calls for a walking foot. Aunties Two posts free video tutorials for several steps, including the side seams, the zipper and top binding, the bottom, inserting the stays, and the strip version.
Product Details
- Brand: Aunties Two Patterns
- Item #: AT617
- Designer: Carol McLeod
- Category: Accessory Sewing Pattern
- Technique: Machine sewing, with some hand sewing
- Finished Size: 18 in wide x 12 in deep x 14 in tall
- Includes: Printed pattern and 2 Size B stays
- Replacement Stays: Size B (AT627)
- Format: Printed Paper Pattern
- Made in: USA
Specifications
| Brand | Aunties Two |
| Craft | Sewing |
| Designer | Carol McLeod |
| Product Type | Pattern Kit |
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