Purse Pattern and Tutorial

Clippy Clasp Purse Making Tutorial — easy and suitable for beginner sewists

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You will need;

Sew-in metal purse clasp

Paper Pencil

Paper scissors

Fabric scissors

Pins

Outer fabric lining fabric

Wadding

Fabric glue (optional) Needle and thread

Sewing machine

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Prepare pattern and pieces;

(1) On a blank sheet of paper draw around the outer edge of your clippy metal purse frame. Mark the hinge positions on both sides. Now draw your ¼ “seam allowance around the outer edge of the drawn line.

(2) Decide how deep you want your purse to be and draw a ‘widened’ triangular shape. At the bottom of your desired shape mark two points which will be an opening left on the lining to turn the purse through.

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(3) Cut out your paper pattern. Using your paper pattern, cut out two outer, two lining and two wadding pieces.

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(3) You now have six pieces in total. X 2 outer fabric, X 2 Lining fabric X 2 wadding.Transfer markings from pattern to your fabrics. X 2 ‘upper’ marks onto outer fabric. X 4 marks onto lining fabric. (The wadding does not need to be marked.)

Construct purse using a ¼” seam allowance.

(4) If you have fabric glue, glue the wadding pieces to the wrong side of both outer pieces (or sew the wadding pieces to the outer fabrics within the seam allowance.

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(5) Place outer fabrics right sides together and sew from one upper mark around the side, across the bottom and back up to the mark on the other side. Back stitch to secure.

(6) To ‘box’ the bottom corners, cut away a box from each corner (size of ‘box’ will depend on how big you want your finished purse to be).

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(7) Take the bottom seam and side seam and line them up with a pin going through the central seam. This will ensure that your boxed seams line up perfectly. Sew across the openings using a ¼” seam allowance to both bottom boxed seams.

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Turn outer purse through and using finger tips gently pull the seams flat.

(8) Place lining pieces wrong sides together and sew around from one mark to the next mark, using the same method as the outer fabric pieces. Unlike the outer pieces you will need to leave a gap in-between the marks at the bottom of the lining pieces. (Lining pieces have 4 marks). This will leave an opening at the bottom which you will need to secure with back stitching at the start and finish of the opening.

(9) Mark and cut out the corner ‘boxes’ as before and sew the boxed corners.

(10) Place the outer purse inside the lining with the right sides of outer and lining touching. Line up and pin the top marks and sew first one side from one mark to the other, then repeat for the other side. Ensure that you do not sew beyond the marks.

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(11) Now turn your purse through the opening gap at the bottom of the lining. Neatly sew up your lining and push the lining into the purse and press.

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Nearly done!

(12) Now position your metal sew in clippy purse frame across the top on one side of your purse and sellotape or peg in place (this will secure the frame position whilst you sew).

Now sew the frame across starting with a secure knot which you can push up into the frame to hide. When you get to the other end, turn your needle and return the way you came to secure stitching knot off. Repeat this for the other side of purse.

Voila, all done!

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