{Make} A Bag Sew Along: Teeny Tiny Tote Tutorial

Week Eight of the {Make} A Bag Sew Along.

The last project in the sew along is a keyring decoration. What could be more fitting than to make a teeny tiny tote as a little celebration of all this bag making! I just love this little project – so easy and fast to make and cute as heck!

Here is the PDF version of this tutorial.

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Materials you’ll need this week from your supplies:

• your 5″ x 5″ squares
• light fusible interfacing
• lobster clasp

{Click on any image to see a larger version.}

Choose 2 of your 5″ x 5″ squares. You should have 2 left, if you started with 40 as listed in the supplies.

Cut 2″ off both squares.

Iron the light interfacing to the wrong side of one of the 2″ x 5″ rectangles.

Fold down about 1/4″ on each short end of this rectangle, toward the interfacing side. Sew in place.

Fold the rectangle in half with right sides together and with the folded edge being the short edge. Pin in place.

Sew down both sides of your teeny tiny tote. Clip the bottom corners. Turn the right way out, push out the corners and press lightly.

From the other 5″ square, take the piece measuring 3″ x 5″. Cut this in half to make 2 rectangles measuring 1.5″ x 5″. These will be the teeny tiny tote handles.

Fold both rectangles in half along the long edge and press to make a crease.

Now fold each long edge to the middle crease {just like when making binding tape}. Press.

Fold your rectangles in half again along the centre crease to hide all the raw edges. Press.

Sew down the open edge of the teeny tiny handles, about 1/8″ from the edge.

Thread both handles through the ring of the lobster clasp.

Put the raw edges of the handles inside the bag, positioning them so that they look proportionate to the bag. Pin in place.

Last step! Sew carefully along the top of the bag to sew the handles in place and close the bag.

And we’re finished the teeny tiny tote! It’s a perfect accessory for any teeny tiny bunnies who may happen to reside at your house.

Now, if you like, you can use the other parts of the squares not used in this tutorial to whip up another tote! {If you don’t have another lobster clasp you could just as easily use a regular split ring.} It hardly took me any time at all. Now I have one for my keys…

…and one to use as a zipper pull on my toiletries pouch…

And guess what? {Trumpets please…}
WE’RE FINISHED!! EVERYTHING!!

Tomorrow I’m going to get all the sew along items together to take a photo. I’ve been using everything as soon as it was made so by now they need a bit of a clean. When I have everything all sparkly and shiny I’ll upload a photo of the whole set.

Until then,
Happy Teeny Tiny Tote Making!

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