We have been sewing the Beach Bag this week during the My Doll, My Style Sew-Along. I wanted to share an option to expand the types of fabric you can use for the project. The Beach Bag pattern calls for a medium weight fabric like a denim or canvas to help it hold it’s shape. Today I’m using a lightweight woven fabric for the bag and still maintaining the shape. I am reinforcing the fabric with fusible interfacing. Since the fabric stores carry such a wide variety of lightweight woven fabric this opens up many choices for fabrics.
Let’s get started!
Materials:
- Lightweight woven fabric like quilting cottons (for the bag)
- Contrasting woven fabric (for the lining)
- HeatnBond Fusible Interfacing -medium weight
- Iron
- Lightweight pressing cloth
- Beach Bag pattern pieces in My Doll, My Style
Cut the Front and Back, Base and Handle pattern pieces out of fusible interfacing. Do not trim the fusible facing. Press the fusible interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric for the bag. Sew the project using the directions in My Doll, My Style. For detailed instructions see this post on How to Use Fusible Interfacing.
I loved using a this lightweight woven for the Beach Bag because I had more color choices.
It’s nice with this pattern that you can use fusible interfacing and open up the possibility of using a wider variety of fabric and still get great results!
-Anna
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You didn’t give very clear instruction for using fusible interfacing for this project. If you cut it per pattern, what do you mean not to trim it?
Hi Sandy, I wrote detailed instructions to use the fusible interfacing in a post here. In that post I show an example of trimming the fusible interfacing smaller than your pattern piece. For this project I recommend keeping the pattern pieces for the interfacing and fabric the same size and not trimming the interfacing smaller. I hope that make sense!