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Textile Crafts - Sewing Crafts - Felt Handbag for Kids Our bear is excited to to go to town with her bright and cheerful handbag. This bag is great for youngsters to hold their tissues and small belongings. It also makes a perfect bag for toy dolls and stuffed animals for playtime. Either way it is fun for mothers or grandmothers to sew. Felt has the advantage that it is durable and does not fray. If you would like to create a larger version, it is no problem. Adjust the size of the front and back pieces according to your needs and following the sewing instructions for the small bag.   All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info are property of this website and may be only printed out and used for private or non-commercial purposes. It is not permitted to use them on the internet or in any other publication. 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Cut the above listed pieces out of yellow or your choice of felt. 2. Lay the two bag pieces together. To give the bag a bottom so it will stand, follow steps 3-11 of this tutorial > How to sew a bag. 3. Now your front and back pieces are finished and you need to add the handles. Take the two 24 cm long and 1.5 cm wide strips and pin each end 2.5 cm or 1 inch evenly inside of the bag as handles (2 ends inside the front side of the bag and 2 ends inside the back side of the bag). Sew the strips securely in place. 4. To add the closing flap, measure your button and create a button hole on one end of the flap strip. 5. Find the center of the bag and attatch the other end of the flap strip to the outside of the back side and sew in place. (See picture)   The back side 5. Fold the flap over to the front side and mark where your button hole is and sew a button on the front of the handbag where the marking is.  ..........................................................................................................................................   Related Crafts and Projects: All Sewing Crafts Find here fun and creative sewing and fabric projects for spring, summer, fall and winter. You will find patchwork wall hangings to use up lots of those fabric scraps as well as lots of small projects that are completed within a couple of hours. Felt Crafts and Needle Felting Projects for All Seasons Creating with felt is an art and a tradition that has been existing for over a thousand years. Here you will find plenty of ideas of how versatile felt can be. How to Make a Pom Pom Pom poms are decorative for different craft and knitting projects How to Add Fusible Web to Fabric and Applique Fabric Motifs Fusible web is like dry glue for fabric. If you need to applique one fabric piece to another, it is excellent to use. You will need an iron to heat up and activate the glue. Once the 2 fabrics are fused, you can continue stitching your applique without it moving around. Find out more in this step-by-step tutorial with pictures. How to Make Patterns and Permanent Templates You need patterns and templates mainly for sewing crafts, wood crafts and paper crafts. Creating permanent templates is easy and has a couple of advantages. First, if you wish to create the same project more than once you will save a lot of time because the template is already prepared. And second, if you are working with a group, the templates are durable and can be easily passed along to the next person. Permanent templates are especially useful when making crafts with children. 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