Make your own purse!

[Music] for that perfect fashion accessory and today we'll show you how easy it can be to make it for yourself Gina Marcel is the owner of Gus creations and he's here she's here to show us how we can make triangle bags thank you so much for joining us I'm ready how are you so these are some of the finished triangle bags they're like trapezoides and they're pretty cute yeah well thank you yeah I kind of uh came up with my own design I mean you can come up with um any shape that you'd like um so what we got going on is um these are the materials that you would need um and so what are these materials well this I made um you need a pattern to um Trace so this is just some weird kind of wallpaper stuff I got so I made my um pattern out of this so the materials you need um I like to use vintage fabric but you can use any fabric that you have um so you need your fabric for the outside you need your lining fabric which I like to use um the duck canvas which is kind of thick see duck canvas yeah all right that's what they call it I don't know yeah and um yeah so on the inside for stability I use the uh number 70 stabilizer which is kind of thick there you see and you can get all this stuff at like a one of those store fabric store okay you also need a small piece of this interfacing with the glue on the back for the um you'll see that in a minute and a piece of batting for the strap so it makes a little cushiony cool so that's that now on a scale of 1 to 10 like say I'm a novice sewer is this something I can pull off I think so all right because all you're going to do a lot um a lot about sewing is making sure that you cut your Fabric and you iron it and you measure and you make everything um the same size once you trim and you make it neat um you just have to think about how the pieces are going together that's a lot of it it's just thinking in your brain how it's going to go together you're going to show us how to do that right well I'm going to attempt so um so these are your um cut pieces you need three you need your outside fabric your liner and your stabilizer so you're going to you line them up all together yep you're going to do you're going to cut all your pieces you also need um a piece for the strap what's the best way to cut fabric xacto knife I just use um scissors but um they make all these fancy rotary cutter things and stuff I haven't really worked with those yet just use scissors just I don't get too crazy with stuff you know I have scissors so that's you have scissors everyone has and so you need one for the strap um this is going to be your um I don't know what you would call this thing with the but with the clasp yes thank you um so you've got one two and then you've got a small piece of a stabilizer so that's and you need a piece for the pocket all right and a button and it can be as complex or simple as you want you don't necessarily need the clas or any of that stuff well you want to close it well that's a good point okay yeah and then you need a magnetic clasp so what you're going to do is next step is to iron so so um I have put see like this so see layers and your out and you would iron those first MH then you would iron your lining to match okay the um secret of making a perfect lining is to make sure that your lining fabric is exactly the same as the outside Fabric and that way you won't get messed up um so that's all ironed I've ironed out here the clasp you can see on the inside I put a small piece of St izer there okay and these are just prongs you just cut and then you would um close it with pliers oh this is easy yeah you sew on your button okay that's this is where I put the stabilizer in here just to give this some stability right and the buttons for show right yeah it's just yep I get it okay I get how this works so let's let's uh sew one together see if we can do here and you're going to iron let me just show the strap real fast this is how you um would iron your strap fold it together and this is how you would iron your pocket very easy just like that so the fun comes when you're going to put it together so what I've already done I've sewn the strap together I put the batting in between see you feel Comfort oh that would feel great on my should this right up like that you want to mark it in the Middle with your chalk to show uh the center um I've sold the line you want to sew your lining up put your um pocket on so you sew the lining up separately you're going to sew the lining separate I thought You' do it all together and then you're going to sew this SE separate and I'm going to show you how to make this flat Corner you're going to pinch it mhm this corner to this corner I look inside to make sure that it's lined up we're going to put it on the machine here line it up do you got do we have a second yeah I got all day okay so as long as you're the one sewing yeah exactly so you're going to put it down I value my fingers I to sew through the stabilizer use a number 18 needle there's different sizes of sewing needles you want to use the right needle so it's a big old needle it's a b it's a the thicker one yeah all right so you're just going to go make a seam there yeah my scissors out here yeah sure there you go there's there and then I will show you just real fast how we put this together so all you're going to do is um you want to Mark make a center Mark with your Chalk in the center here to show where this is going to be put M okay okay all you're going to do is just put this in here here I like to fold it and then you flip the whole thing back to the right side after you sew it okay see now I you got to sew it first that's true I just like seeing how it all goes together yeah it's test this I would not be goes from a pile of nothing of all these pieces right it's interesting to see how you how you really do make so you want to line up the side and then I'll take my strap well that's the thing I feel like like you were just saying Ash it looks overwhelming maybe it's not maybe if you actually put your mind to it I think this is something yeah you just got to pay attention make sure that's in the center and you knock it out 20 minutes half hour a day Ash you can make one of these by Christmas that's right that's right if I can get this centered here okay so we'll show how this is going to go together put it on here and then you just sew your pieces together and you would definitely need a a sewing machine for this wouldn't you say Gina yes okay yeah so it would be hard to do by hand I mean Staples definitely wouldn't work yeah I can show you um in a minute the finished product yeah sure we got a little bit of time we have but um and these are some examples of finished products and pretty much once we flip it around it's going to look like one of these which are pretty cool thank you yeah you just sure that you keep it lined up here and then you just go around I love seeing how things are made when your line comes up that you got to put your this in there you just line it up oh and you you just sew it over it yep so you got to make sure it's lined up there I give you a lot of credit Gina this is you make it look easy you do you really do these are so so cute I don't that's it you just take a lot of practice for sure and then you can make any shape you can make a um I make some just like a rectangle shape you can do any shape you want so we're going to let you finish that up Gina unun we're just about out of time but yeah we will show you when you're all done thank you so much for being Gina thank you