QUILTsocial | Issue 08

Making a snap bag
I made the following video to show the
basic steps of making a snap bag. Please
watch the video before you follow along
with the rest of the steps.
I cut a piece of batting 13” x 21½” and
layered it with the outside of the bag.
As I mentioned in the video if you are
making small bags you don’t need to
do any quilting to secure the layers, but
since the bags we are making are going
to be quite a bit bigger, I used one of my
WonderFil Konfetti threads to do a bit
of topstitching around the Sashiko panel
and across the back of the bag.
Quilting through the outside of the bag and
the batting
Then I cut the lining of the bag from the
white ColorWorks fabric 13” x 25” and
centered the outside of the bag on the
lining with wrong sides together. As
shown in the video, I folded and pressed
the excess fabric from the ends of the
lining over the ends of the bag front.
The edge of the lining fabric is double folded over
the edge of the outside fabric
As I showed in the video the two edges
of the folded lining is top-stitched to
make the channel for the tape measure
to slide into. I bought a dollar store metal
tape measure and cut two lengths that
were each 12¼” long and rounded the
edges as shown in the video. Always use
OLD SCISSORS to cut the tape measure
– NOT your good quilting scissors! If you
are concerned with the sharpness of the
ends of the tape measure, wrap each
end with some duct tape to protect your
fabric. When you cut your tape measure,
make sure that you reattach the metal
end using some scotch tape to make
sure that the rest of your tape measure
doesn’t retract back into the case – never
to be seen again!!
Make sure to tape the end of the tape measure
back on to prevent the tape from going all the
way into the case
Following the directions in the video,
the bag is folded in half with right sides
together and stitched about ¼” from
the edge. I trimmed the edge and then
zigzagged the raw edge to make the
seam neat. The next step was to insert
the tape measure lengths into the
two channels with the unmarked side
towards the outside of the bag.
The tape measure section is inserted into the
channel with the unmarked side towards the
outside of the bag
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