Beach Bag DIY
It’s beach season! There are so many hidden delights in Western Canada that are often forgotten or taken for granted. B.C. is blessed with ocean access but also beautiful forests that often lead to lakes. Not to mention the beauty of the Shuswap! The run-off from the mountains needs to go somewhere and Alberta is full of beautiful lakes. From Sylvan lake to lake Minnewanka we are only a short drive away from a beach day! Although Saskatchewan is known for their Prairies they are still able to enjoy a beach day at little Manitou lake or even lake Athabasca. Be sure to throw in some fishing rods with these visits. Manitoba is home to Canada’s 13th largest lake, Lake Manitoba and is full of little cottages among the bodies of water.
Okay, so maybe a Canadian beach isn’t quite the same as a Mexico beach but they are beautiful, and still require a beach bag!
Materials
- 0.8m fabric (140cm wide)
- 1.5m lining (60cm wide)
- 0.6m vinyl
- 4 O-rings 38mm
- 1.5m trim for handles
- sewing machine
- thread
- scissors
- iron
- Optional: magnetic clip, 8″ invisible zipper
- Cut a rectangle 44″ x 23″ out of fabric and 40″ x 23″ of lining.
2. Cut out bag bottom, referencing the diagram attached to the materials. Cut 1 of vinyl and 1 of lining.
3. Sew a rolled hem on the long edges of the bag bottom vinyl (23″ sides).
4. Centre the leather bottom piece face up on the right side of the fabric and sew into place.
5. Cut the fabric on both sides where the leather bottom is cut out
6. Fold fabric good to good and stitch sides. Press seams open
7. Bring the side seam to the middle of the cut-out and stitch. Repeat on other side.
8. Repeat steps 3-7 with the lining. **Optional: add zipper pocket to lining**
9. Cut 4 strips of vinyl 1″ x 6″. Thread through O-rings and baste vinyl to top edge of bag
10. Press top edge of fabric under 2″. **Optional: attach magnetic snaps to the top of the bag on 2″ fold.
11. Place bag and lining good sides together making sure vinyl tabs are tucked in. Stitch top edge with 1/2″ seam allowance, leaving opening to turn inside out.
12. Turn inside out and slip stitch opening closed. Top stitch edge of bag.
13. Thread in the belting trim through the O-rings to create the purse straps, stitch down.
Don’t forget to enter your bag into our contest! https://woobox.com/sqio73
I cannot get this pattern to download. Have tried numerous times and ways.
Hi Karen, thanks for letting us know! It should be working now 🙂
It is working now thanks Now I can build and enter the contest
Awesome! Can’t wait to see!
Is there a way to download the step-by-step photos as well as the pattern for the bottom?
Hi Maxine, the printed version and pattern are available in stores but we have also uploaded them to the top below the pattern 🙂
It downloaded fine. Did not print step by step pictures for page 1. Everything else printed fine. Hmm…
Hi Kim,
I’m not too sure why that would be! When you open the print dialogue box, check to make sure all the photos have loaded.
I could not down load either and I found your illustrations difficult to destinguish and instructions confusing. I think I could make it on my own only because of my experience
Hi Jan,
Sorry to hear about your complication downloading the pattern and/or instructions. Please make sure you have a current PDF reader such as acrobat. You will also want to make sure your ad blocker is turned off as the pattern will try to open in a new window.
Thank you for the feedback regarding the complexity of the instructions. We can understand that viewing the pictures and reading the instructions might be confusing but as you sew it should make more sense.
Is it mandatory to only use only one fabric on the outside or can I be creative and use some co-ordinating fabrics and perhaps some accents such as buttons etc?
Hi Sharon,
Please feel free to be as creative as you’d like! Add some panels and buttons.
I am so very excited to try and make this bag. It looks fabulous. Wish me luck.
are there instructions for adding the optional zipper pocket to the lining? mostly looking for dimensions and why an invisible zipper?
also, is it necessary to line the bag bottom? , seems like a lot of fabric. I would just skip this piece.
Hi Hanneke,
There are no instructions for the pocket but this DIY has a similar pocket that you can follow steps 1-3 https://blog.fabriclandwest.com/waste-bag-carrier/
You can also use a normal zipper, just a personal preference. The dimensions of the pocket bag are 8″x8″.
The bag bottom is lined to hide the seams of the vinyl.
The pattern looks great, but I am wondering what the finished dimensions of the bag are.
Hi Ruth,
The height is roughly 16″ and the width at the top is 21″ and the bottom width is 14″
When is the contest over.
Do you have to use this colour or your own.
Hi Olivia,
The deadline to enter the contest is July 23, 2019. More details can be found here https://woobox.com/sqio73
You can use any fabric as long as it is from Fabricland 🙂
Thanks for explaining this in details i have been looking for this since so long