Box Bag

Stacy Schlyer

MATERIALS:
• 1 Fat Quarter or ½ yd. fabric • Quilting ruler or templates
for exterior measuring:
• 1 Fat Quarter or ½ yd. fabric o 12 x 16”
for lining o 8 x 10 “
o 1 x 1 ¼”
• ½ yd. fusible interfacing ***
• Tailors chalk or water
• 12” zipper
soluble fabric marker
• Thread
• Optional:
• Rotary Cutter & Mat and\or
• ¼” seam foot (optional)
scissors
• Zipper foot (optional)

*** The type of interfacing used will determine how your finished bag
appears. Lightweight interfacing will produce a soft bag that is easily
collapsed while a heavy weight interfacing (or even Timtex\Peltex) will
make a box bag that is firmer and holds it’s boxy shape.

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CUTTING:
1. From exterior fabric, lining fabric, and interfacing cut a 12 x 16”
rectangle.
2. From exterior fabric cut an 8 x 10” rectangle.

STEPS:
1. Fuse interfacing to wrong side of lining material. Set lining aside.

2. Fold 8 x 10” rectangle

in half lengthwise, wrong
sides together, and
press. Unfold and bring
raw edges of fabric to
meet fold line. Press.
Fold strip in ½ again
matching finished edges.
Top stitch close to both
finished, long edges. Set
strap aside.

3. Make a ‘fabric
sandwich’ – Place exterior
fabric right side up, lay
zipper wrong side up
along short end of fabric,
and lining on top of it all,
wrong side up. Pin layers
together.

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4. Sew layers together using a ¼” seam allowance.

5. Press layers open

with wrong sides
together and zipper
sandwiched in
between. Topstitch
fabric layers 1/8” away
from finished edge.

6. Repeat steps 3-5

with second, short
edge. You should now
have a fabric tube.

7. Fold bag in half, matching raw edges and centering zip.

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8. Using your ruler,
measure up 1 ¼” from
bottom edge and 1” from
folded edge. Using your
marking tool create a
square over corner. Use
scissors to remove square
shape. Repeat for
remaining 3 corners.

9. Unzip zipper halfway and turn bag inside out so that the lining material
is facing you. Sew short ends of bag together. Repeat for second side,
trimming away excess zipper.

10. Open up square cut

out and align raw edges
so that the seam and fold
are centered and
matched. Sew using a ¼”
seam allowance. Repeat
for second notch.

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11. Repeat step #10,
this time inserting the
strap through opening
before stitching.

12. Turn bag right side out, poke out corners, and press.