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Instructions for sewing a travel bag for your shoes All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info may be printed out and used for private purposes or school-room use only. It is NOT permitted to use our text or photographs on any website, any blog or any other form of publication. Here is some more useful information: If making a shoe bag, this bag is measured for a woman’s shoe size 8 1/2 (American) or 40 European. You may wish to increase the width and length measurements for a larger shoe size.   Spring and Easter fabric and textile crafts >>> Create a Easter bunny plant poke, a soft bunny toy for a child or learn how to make a shoe bag for travelling. Sewing is fun and here you will find these projects to keep you busy in the spring. More all occasion fabric crafts, patchwork crafts and sewing crafts >>> Would you like to sew a backpack for your small child or create a patchwork picture to decorate your home? These and other fabric projects can be found in this section. Fall fabric and sewing crafts >>> Create wooden refrigerator magnets by fusing country fabric scraps onto wood. This is just an example of one of the projects found here. Find Christmas fabric and sewing crafts >>> Find here cute snowmen out of felt to sew, a Christmas tree garland with stars or a patchwork Christmas tree ornament. These and many other fabric and sewing crafts can be found here. Shoe Bag Craft Project >>> Halloween Goodie Bag Craft Project >>> Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info     Step-By-Step Tutorials 1 Here you will find over 80 step-by-step tutorials with pictures. Step-by-Step Tutorials 2 Find even more step-by-step tutorials and instructions. New tutorials are being added on a regular basis. Butterfly Suncatcher Tutorial 1. Cut 2 pieces of material out with the size of 30 cm x 40 cm. (12 inches by 16 inches). 2. Place the 2 pieces on top of each other so that the good sides are facing each other and on the inside. You will be sewing on the backside. 3. Mark 2 squares the size of 5x5 cm (2x2 inches) at each bottom corner of the bag. 4. Cut those squares out. 5. Sew down the 2 sides of the bag and at the bottom of the bag. 6. This is how the sewn edges now look. 7. Allign the side and bottom seam of each corner... 8. and pin these edges together. 9. Sew along this edge on each corner.. 10. This is the sewn corner. By doing this, the bag now has a floor and can stand on its own... 11. ... like this. 12. Fold 3 cm of the top material under and sew around this edge. 13. Open a couple of stitches of the side seam at the top just enough so that the cording can be inserted. Stick a safety pin through the cording and insert it in the opened seam. 14. Pull the cording through until you come out where the start of the cording is.