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1. Cut 2 pieces of material out with the size of 30 cm x 40 cm. (12 inches by 16 inches). You may of course vary the sizes to fit your own needs.
The shoe bag above is lined for extra strength and reinforcement. If you wish to line the bag, cut 2 equal size pieces of lining material out and sew each one with the right sides facing to the original fabric piece. Make sure to leave an approximately 5 cm space for turning the material inside out. Then turn the material, iron flat and then hand stitch the opening close. Continue the steps below to finish.
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2. Place the 2 pieces on top of each other so that the right sides are facing each other and on the inside. You will be sewing on the backside.
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3. Mark 2 squares the size of 5x5 cm (2x2 inches) at each bottom corner of the bag.
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4. Cut those squares out.
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5. Sew down the 2 sides of the bag and at the bottom of the bag.
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6. This is how the sewn edges now look.
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7. Allign the side and bottom seam of each corner...
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8. and pin these edges together.
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9. Sew along this edge on each corner.
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10. This is the sewn corner. By doing this, the bag now has a floor and can stand on its own...
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11. ... like this.
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12. To create the tunnel to insert your cording, fold 2 cm of the top material under and then fold 2 cm again. Sew the fold in place at about 1.7 cm from the top edge.
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13. Open a couple of stitches of both side seams just enough so that the cording can be inserted. You will need 2 x 1 meters of cording. Starting at the right side, insert a safety pin through the end of cording and insert it in the opened seam and pull the cording completely around until the end comes out to the beginning. You now have two ends on right side. Knot these ends together.
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14. Now do the same to the left side seam. Insert the cording and pull it completely around. Now you have two ends on the left side. Knot these ends together.
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