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Summary: Learn how to add a closure to a handmade purse with expert tips on hip, fashionable, and modern purse styles in this free sewing video clip.
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Julia635 Melina Piroso was born in Argentina and raised in the USA. She studied Fine Arts at FIU in Miami, and Fashion Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. ... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi. I'm Melina Piroso and welcome to Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make a cute little bag out of regular, every day fabrics. What you're going to do now is you're going to add a closure. I like to use this adhesive velcro. You can get this at pretty much any craft store. You have to make sure, when you're picking out velcro that you're not just buying velcro because they will put regular velcro in the sewing section and it's not the iron on adhesive kind. And you'll get home and you'll try to sew it and your needle will get stuck. Or you'll try to glue it and it won't stick to the fabric. So you want to make sure you get the type of velcro that says iron on adhesive velcro. So what you're going to do is you're going to have your two pieces stuck together like this and you're going to get, you're going to cut a piece. About an inch. Depends on how big your bag is. But you're going to want to cut about an inch. A very important thing, you cannot forget this because this is going to determine how long your velcro closure lasts on your bag. You're going to trim off any excess and you're going to round the edges. Now, the reason for rounding the edges is because if you leave it square, then every time you open and close the velcro the tip is going to peel back a little and eventually it's going to peel off of both sides. So the way to prevent that is by rounding off your velcro edges. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to open up our bag and we're going to stick the velcro in our bag. And you're going to stick it. You're going to try to figure out where the middle is. Just eyeball it. Here's our middle. And you're going to stick it on one side. Then what you're going to do is you're going to peel off this other tape and you're going to stick it to your bag. Like this. So, hold on to the velcro and open it back up. Okay? And now you're going to take a scrap piece of fabric and you're going to put it in between the velcro. This is very important. If you do not put this scrap piece of fabric in between the velcro when you iron it, it's going to fuse together and then you will have done all this work and you will have a bag that you cannot open. So, put the scrap piece in between and you start ironing on one side. And you're going to want to hold it down for about one minute so that the glue fully melts. This is another reason why I don't like using flimsy fabrics. You know, some fabrics, they burn really easily. So, after we've waited about a minute or two we can remove our test fabric and there we go. Velcro is firmly adhered to our fabric and we have a nice way of opening and closing our bag without any complicated zipper or button or anything like that.
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