Drawstring Bag Pattern

Drawstring bags can be used for many things. You can keep your coins in them. Or store candies or chocolate in them. You can use pretty looking drawstring bags, to keep your gifts inside. Or you can make a large bag to store your clothes. You can make such small bags, and decorate them with beautiful ornamental decorations and use it for a party. You can make a leather drawstring bag to keep your gadgets, as you can see a drawstring bag has many purposes. These bags are quite simple to make, you can make a bag using cotton, leather, silk, jute or artificial fabrics as a base material. You can use yarn to create crochet drawstring bag patterns. You can also combine two beautiful looking fabrics and make reversible drawstring bag. For lined drawstring bag all you need is basic sewing techniques, and using your imagination you can make the bag as good looking as you want.

Simple Pattern for Drawstring Bag

Things you will need for making a drawstring bag are:

• ½ Yard of a fabric
• Ribbon
• Cutter
• Scissor
• Sewing machine
• Medium-sized safety pin
• Cotton thread, that matches with the fabric
• Ruler

Step #1: For making drawstring bags you can use different kinds of fabric. The easiest to work with is felt, as felt material doesn't fray. You can also use an upholstery weight fabric. Once you selected the kind of fabric you want, follow the second step. Read more about, paper bags.

Step #2: Now cut a 12 inch wide by 24 inch long piece of fabric. Then fold the piece of fabric in half along its length, with the right sides together to make a 12 inch square. Then start at the fold sewing up the left and right side of the bag with some seam allowance. Stop before 2 ½ inches from the top of each side.

Step #3: Now work on only one half of the bag at a time, and fold and iron the hem of the seam allowance. Then fold an iron ¼ the inch hem along the top side of the bag. Fold this fabric over another ¾ inch to make a hem and iron it. This will make the drawstring channel. Sew the bottom edge of this hem, by maintaining a small seam allowance. Then repeat this for other half of the bag.

Step #4: Now fold both the corners of the bag, so that the side seam of the bag is lying exactly down the middle of the corner point. Now you will need to sew a gusset seam, perpendicular to side seam. Place a non slip ruler along the side of the drawstring channel, and draw a line with marker approximately 2 inches below the point of the corner. Repeat on the other side. Remove the triangular fabric above the marked lines, and use sewing to close the open edges.

Step #5: Now attach a safety pin to one end of the ribbon, and thread it through the drawstring channel on one side of the bag, and then back around the other side, so that both ends of the ribbon are now on one side. Repeat with other ribbon piece starting on opposite side of the bag, and leave around 5 inches of the ribbon on either side, then tie them in knots and cut out the excess. Hold the knots on either side and pull in the outwards direction, the bag will cinch and close.

So, follow the above instructions and use beautiful patterned colorful fabrics, to make different drawstring bags.