Bridesmaid Clutch Bag

The idea of the clutch originated with the "Reticule" hundred years ago, during the Victorian era. It was then a mid-sized bag, made out of Lucite, Bakelite, silk, satin or brocade.  Originally popular in France, they crossed over into Britain, where they became known as "indispensables." 
Proper ladies used the "Reticule" to store their handkerchiefs during elegant evenings out on the town. This fashion then went out of style, but came back during World War II.  From the after-war to our era, the clutch purse is the evening bag of choice for women everywhere.

This zippered clutch is ideal for any occasion, morning ,evening,formal and informal parties. The outer fabric is silk with rhinestones border and scattered rhinestones all over the front. The inner fabric and sides aremade of soft white fleece. 

Dimensions
length-5 inches, width- 11 inches, depth- 4 inchesIts an perfect Bridesmaid, Mothers day, Anniversery or Birthday gift. 


Materials
Silk Fabric- 1/2 yard
Fleece fabric for lining - 1/2 yard
Quilting batting- 1/2 yard
Cardboard strip- 11 inches length 2 inches width
White zipper- 7 inch
Rhinestones- 

Stiching:
Step 1
First of all cut a hexagon from the silk fabric, in the dimensions of length 13 inches and width 13 inches
Cut two hexagons from the batting and fleece of dimension- length 11 inches and width 11 inches
Cut two cup shaped fleece fabric for the sides.
Place the fleece cut out place the cardbord in the middle of the fleece hexagon.
Then place the batting and then the silk layer, put a cotton cloth on top.
Heat the iron and apply the hot iron on the layers first the silk side then turn it, put the cotton cloth on fleece cutout and apply the hot iron two to three stroke.
Now your base for the bag is ready.

Step 2
Stich the silk fabric around the fleece by making two folds.
Stich along both the sides of the cardboard to hold it firmly with the fabric.
Now take the sides.

Again double fold and stich the sides of both the pieces individually.
place it alligning with the cardboard and stich with the sides of the bag.

Do the same thing for the other side.
Once your sides are done take the zipper and pin along the fleece fabric at the top.
Stich it carefully.

Step 3

In this step you need to apply the rhinestones. 
There are two ways to do that one is to apply it manually sticking each rhinestone with fabric glue which is tiresome and messy.
The second option is to use a bedazzeler or hot glue gun.
I used the second option.

Miniature Fleece Purse

These adorable, easy- to- assemble bags are just the right size for holding a few small necessities- basic make-up supplies, cell phone, money bags, keys and MP3 players. The bag is great for toddlers (they can put thier crayons and drawing supplies) to teen girls. Try to make these purses with fabric scrapes and enoy yourself or gift the beautiful purse that fashionistas crave for.

The Material:
2 pieces of red fleece(can also use felt if preferred) 5by 7 inches (12.5 cm x 18cm)
1 yard pink yarn
Green yarn sufficient for embroidery
White button
1 piece pink fleece
1 long red zipper
Small strip of velcro


The Stiching:

Cut out the fleece in oval shape.

To customize the purses with original drawing, use a dissapearing -ink fabric pen to sketch shapes onto the fleece scrapes.

 After cutting the bird in pink fleece Place it in the middle of the red felt cut out. Pin the bird to the bag cut out and make a fern stich by hand.

To make the fern stich keep the knotted part outside to make a stem for the leaf. 

Next border the bird with simple stich and stich a button on the eye area and iron on the batting on the wrong side to save your threads from pulling in the future.

Take the second red fleece cut out and make a back pocket by placing your phone and cutting out a square piece inch bigger on all sides. Stich the velcro.

Now place both the red fleece cut outs carefully. Check whether they are alligning properly with each other and pin it to sew. Try to stich in one time so that it the stiches are in a line and not curvy. 

Take the pink yarn and tie a plate using three threads. 

Put it in the opening of the bag and adjust the zipper with it and sew the zipper.

Now with the invisible pen mark small traingles and cut neatly. You can avoid this step by initially cutting the felt cut outs with pinking shears.