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This fully lined stylish holdall will certainly turn heads with its bold pattern and unique shape. Fill it with all your necessities - there’s plenty of room, plus two pockets for smaller items like your keys. We’ve used the Fenton House collection for Gütermann, but you could mix and match colours and patterns to make this a truly personal accessory for your spring wardrobe.
Stitch a bag
1 Download the template and print, trace onto card and cut out. Select three different prints for the outer bag, contrasting sections and lining. Cut two 7cm x 48cm pieces of contrasting and lining fabrics to make the gusset for the zip. Fuse lightweight interfacing to the lining pieces and trim to size, laying one of them horizontally, right side up on a work surface. Place the zip face up on top, lining up the bottom edges. Lay one contrasting section face down, to sandwich the fastening. Ensure there is 2cm of spare fabric at either end.
2 Use a zip foot on your sewing machine to stitch the three pieces together, close to the teeth of the fastening. Unfold the layers so the fabrics lay wrong sides together and the zip sits along the top, press and topstitch 3mm from the zip. Repeat this process on the other side of the fastening and zigzag stitch the long outer edges on each side of the panel to hold it flat. Trim the short ends of the finished band to 1cm from the zip end.
3 Cut 13cm x 18cm of contrasting print for a small side pocket. Interface half of the wrong side, fold the fabric over it and press. Zigzag stitch around the three raw edges. Cut 12cm x 13c
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