"How do you attach the strips of shirt lengthwise to conjoin the fabric? Or rather, did you use the obvious method of making a seam and pressing it flat or did you need to reinforce it somehow?"
I just sewed them together and pressed the seams flat.
"And do the seams look or feel weird on the handle?"
A bit, but if I were being fancy I could balance out all four strips so that they'd end at logical places.
"Do you sew the edges of the whole long strip wrong-sides facing and then invert?" I did, and then sewed up the end seam.
How the pockets work: The dotted-line pocket on the left is on the underside of the two-sided strip. The solid line pocket on the right is on the top side. As the strip is folded into the bag, one of those pockets will end up on the inside and one will end up on the outside.
If you wanted to, you could sew your shirt into a lining, put both pockets on one side, and use two 7 1/2" strips cut from a commercial piece of fabric, to make a lined bag with two interior pockets.
I could do the seams on the corners to make the bag bottom flat, but if I were going to make a flat-bottomed bag I would actually make it as two rings of fabric, and stitch them together. Like this:
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Date: 2011-01-27 05:26 pm (UTC)I just sewed them together and pressed the seams flat.
"And do the seams look or feel weird on the handle?"
A bit, but if I were being fancy I could balance out all four strips so that they'd end at logical places.
"Do you sew the edges of the whole long strip wrong-sides facing and then invert?" I did, and then sewed up the end seam.
How the pockets work:
The dotted-line pocket on the left is on the underside of the two-sided strip. The solid line pocket on the right is on the top side. As the strip is folded into the bag, one of those pockets will end up on the inside and one will end up on the outside.
If you wanted to, you could sew your shirt into a lining, put both pockets on one side, and use two 7 1/2" strips cut from a commercial piece of fabric, to make a lined bag with two interior pockets.
I could do the seams on the corners to make the bag bottom flat, but if I were going to make a flat-bottomed bag I would actually make it as two rings of fabric, and stitch them together. Like this: