Lesson 2: Project Drawstring Bag



The basic to all fabric before sewing

 This week after the submission of our first part to the Competencies Profile, we start off with our first project on a drawstring bag.

It is very helpful, in teaching that we show the students of the anticipated final product. This way we will always "Have an End in Mind".

We started off by learning a new term to a new product: Warding  (Not cotton pad/ "white, white thing", whatsoever)

In this project we are working on two piece of fabric and a warding in between.

The warding's function here is to conceal one fabric from the other (as the colours can be translucent due to its thinness), thus if you have 2 thick fabrics, when put together , the colours translucent to one another, you may go without the warding.

               Measuring from 45 degree to do the diagonal lines using the 'Magic Ink'

First step of Project Drawstring:

- We draw diagonal lines (beginning at 45 degree), on Fabric A (colourful fabric).

- Tip: It is better to use Invisible Pen than to chalk, however the cons is that if we don't sew immediately, the ink disappears and sadly you have to re-draw. I felt the ink can last about 4 days at least before it slowly fade away.

- Then we proceed with "BASTING", a temporary approach to piece 2 fabrics together via hand-sew without backstitch before we machine-sew them, to prevent disalignment.

- Once nicely attached and held, we will machine-sew the diagonal lines.
!!!Tip: Start from the middle


- Once that is done, we will be drawing line to Fabric B (Blue one for me) to attached both pieces together. 


Till next lesson.......