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Sewing - Foldover Tote
This full day class will take you through the process of making this gorgeous foldover fabric tote, with an internal pocket and a leather strap.
Teacher: Leslie Keating
Description: Spend the day with Leslie making your own foldover tote which is fully customisable and finished with an internal pocket and leather strap.
The bag has a few different inside pocket options including a divided pocket, a zipper pocket for more experienced sewers or one with a flap and press stud. Leslie will also take you through the process of working with leather and attaching the strap.
Materials: There will be a small materials cost for bag hardware. You will need to bring fabric for the bag and the lining. More information about suitable materials will be sent to you via email.
Takeaway: A foldover tote and a set of bag making sewing skills.
Level: This class is a fantastic choice for complete beginners who want to learn to sew, as well as those whose skills are a little rusty. Or you might be an intermediate sewer who wants to make a gorgeous and functional bag.
Workshop Length: Full day
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.