How to Make a Duffel Bag that's Better than Santa's
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November/December 1978
by Joan Hyme White
SACK STITCHING: STEP ONE
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Cut a 21" x 30" rectangle from your main piece of fabric. Then, with a light pencil or chalk, mark two parallel lines on the cloth as shown in Fig. 3.
SACK STITCHING: STEP TWO
Separate your long (21") zipper and sew one half to each of the "short" ends of the piece of material, with the fastener's teeth pointed in (see Fig. 4). Then turn the two zipper halves over and stitch 'em down again with the teeth pointed outward (Fig. 5).
SACK STITCHING: STEP THREE
The handles of the bag's webbed carrying strap should be reinforced with a second layer of webbing before the strap is sewed to the bag. Cut a 74"-long section from your 108" (three yard) length of webbing and then cut the remaining 34" of webbing into two 17"-long pieces. Measure back 11" from each end of the 74"-long carrying strap and, starting from that point on both ends, attach the two 17" lengths of reinforcement to the strap by laying the strap on each section of reinforcement and then sewing down both sides of the "sandwich."
Next, place the reinforced strap on the 21" x 30" rectangle of bag material as shown in Fig. 6. Make sure the webbing starts at Point A (15" in from both zippered edges of the fabric), ends at Point F (where its slightly turned-under end is allowed to slightly overlap the beginning end), and just touches the inside of the two chalk (or pencil) marks that you've lightly scribed on the material. Temporarily pin the strapping into place.
Then, beginning at Point A, sew along the outside edge of the webbing until you get to Point B, where you'll make a box stitch that overlaps the reinforced section of the strap by one inch. Sew back and forth over this box stitch a couple of times for strength, and then back along the inside of the strap all the way to Point E (don't forget, as you pass "F", to fold its end under and allow it to overlap Point A enough to make a good seam). Sew a box stitch at Point E (just like the one you sewed at "B"). Then sew down the outside of the strap to "F", run your needle back and forth over the "F/A" seam a couple of times, and take the bag out of the machine.
Next, make a box stitch at "C" (again, just like the box stitch you sewed at "B" and "E"). Then sew down the outside of that part of the strap to "D", make another reinforced box stitch, sew back down the inside of the webbing to "C", reinforce that box stitch by sewing over it again, and take the bag out of the machine. Hey! This project is starting to look like something!
SACK STITCHING: STEP FOUR
Now turn the bag inside-out and zip it closed as shown in Fig. 7. Pull the slider all the way off, then pry a few teeth open on one edge of the "barrel" you've created, start the slider, turned so its pull tab is on the inside, back on again, and pull it to the middle of the zipper.
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