MATERIALS
FABRIC Use good quality cotton fabric.
Bag Body: One Bali Pop, Jelly Roll, or 40 strips 2½” wide x 42/44”
or about 3 yards of one fabric or 1½ yards of two fabrics
Pockets, Binding, Bow and Handles: 1¼ yards
FUSIBLE INTERFACING 2 yards 45” wide
Use a thin fusible interfacing. I recommend Pellon’s 987F Fusible Fleece
MATCHING COTTON THREAD
Use a 50-weight 2-ply thread like Aurifil
MAGNETIC BUTTON One magnetic sew in button by Bohin
ADDITIONALLY FOR THE HANDLES
Plastic Plumbing Tubing (.170 ¼” Polyethylene) 4 feet
Stiff Interfacing (Rigid Weave, Craf-tex, Peltex) 2 strips 1¾” x 21½”
(or you can purchase Aunties Two Happy Handles Kit #AT238 which contains both the tubing and
strips of stiff interfacing pre-cut to 1¾” wide)
Other Tools: Sewing Machine with a free arm, sewing machine
needles - Microtex 90/14. Iron, Dritz Thermal Thimbles, scissors (both
large and small), red Clover Wonder Clips or pins, rotary mat, rotary
cutter, acrylic rulers, chalk, seam ripper, hand sewing needles.