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Friday, November 17, 2017

Gala Totebags

Hi there blogging, world soon it will be Waikowhai Primary School's (The school I go to) Gala day. For the Gala day each class is making a sustainable product to sell. In my last post I was advertising for my school's gala day this blog post is about how we made our tote bags (The product my class is making for the Gala day is tote bags) and the process of it. I hope you can come to the Gala checkout my last blog post to find out more information.
 Here is the process: 

First we had to cut two pieces of calico that are the same size. On one piece of calico we used some stencils we made out of paper to be our stencil for screen-printing.

After we did our screen-printing we sewed the two pieces together using a simple straight line on the sewing machine. If you would like to you can pin the pieces of fabric together before you sew. Be sure when you are sewing that your screen-printing is facing inwards and not outwards. Also make sure you leave one side open and not sewn.

After you have sewn do not turn it back the right way yet! Now you must fold your hem over but only the side that was not sewn together make sure your fold is quite skinny. Once you have folded it over iron it. Then you sew a straight line down the hem that you folded over. Now repeat the steps on the other side.

Now to stop the fraying you must do zigzag stitching on three sides but not the one that is the top.


It is time to add strapping we just bought strapping from a shop and attached the straps by sewing a square.

Last but definitely not least you must sell your bag!


Here are some photos:



My reflection: 


Sometimes when you do screen printing it can bleed so screen printing is quite hard to do. The reason we are making our tote bags is because plastic bags are a big part of global warming and our goal is to get people to use reusable bags more. The good part was designing our second bag I hand sewed sequins on my second one. I used to think that making tote bags would be hard but it is actually quite fun and easy. I would not do it by myself because there is lots of supplies I need that I don't have.





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