How to Sew a Yarn Tote Bag That Keeps Yarn Tidy

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Learn the way to sew a yarn bag with this effortless tutorial and create a tote that retains your yarn, needles, and initiatives neatly organized.

Canvas crochet tote bag with blue panel reading Keep Calm and Carry Yarn, shown with yarn thread, crochet hooks, and pockets for supplies.

Bear in mind when the Hold Calm pattern was all over the place? The pattern might have handed, however I nonetheless love this yarn bag and use it on a regular basis.

I crochet a lot within the automobile whereas on the go, and my yarn used to get tangled each single time.

This yarn bag retains all the pieces neat with a spot for hooks, a pocket for patterns, and a intelligent opening that lets the yarn feed proper by the facet.

Now I can seize my tote and crochet on the sofa, within the automobile, or on the park with out coping with a tangled mess.

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Provide Listing

Craft supplies for a yarn tote project including canvas fabric, printable design, HeatnBond, sewing machine, printer, thread, grommets, and pliers.

Seize the Free Printable

Minimalist design with a ball of yarn above the text Keep Calm and Carry Yarn in bold black lettering on a white background.

Reduce Listing from Canvas

  • 2 – 18.5″ x 15.5″ items (back and front)
  • 1 –  52.5″ x 7″ (this might be your 3 sides)
  • 1 –  5″ x 7″ (slots for crochet hooks)
  • 1 –  15.5″ x 12″ (again pocket)
  • 2 – 5″ x 34″ (straps)

Directions

Step 1: Print the Material Label

Print the Hold Calm and Carry Yarn design onto cloth utilizing your house printer.

When you’ve got not printed on cloth earlier than, this tutorial will stroll you thru the method: How to Print on Material.

The printable file is designed for a full sheet of paper. If you’d like a smaller label, resize the design earlier than printing.

Set the printed cloth apart when you assemble the bag items.

Step 2: Sew the Again Pocket

Take the again panel and the pocket piece.

  1. Fold the highest edge of every piece beneath ½ inch and press.
  2. Sew the folded edge to create a clear hem.

Place the pocket on high of the again panel with proper sides going through out. Align the underside and facet edges.

Sew a basting sew alongside the perimeters to maintain the pocket in place when you assemble the bag.

Canvas fabric panels labeled top of back panel and top of back pocket showing folded hems for sewing a crochet tote bag.

Set this piece apart.

Step 3: Put together the Entrance Panel

Fold the highest fringe of the entrance panel down ½ inch and stitch a hem.

Subsequent, connect the printed cloth label.

  1. Apply fusible net to the again of the printed cloth.
  2. Heart the design on the entrance panel.
  3. Fuse in accordance to the producer’s directions.
  4. Sew across the edge utilizing a zigzag sew to safe it.

This step offers the bag a enjoyable, handmade look whereas maintaining the material label’s edges from fraying.

Blue Keep Calm and Carry Yarn fabric panel stitched onto canvas tote bag fabric during sewing project.

Step 4: Put together the Facet Panel

Take the lengthy facet panel piece and hem each brief edges with a ½ inch seam allowance.

This lengthy strip will wrap across the sides and backside of the tote bag.

Step 5: Create the Crochet Hook Holder

Take the 5″ x 7″ piece that can maintain your crochet hooks.

  1. Fold the highest and backside edges beneath ½ inch.
  2. Press and stitch the hems.

Place this panel on the facet panel piece the place one facet of the bag might be.

Sew vertical strains down the panel to create slender pockets for crochet hooks, yarn needles, or sew markers.

Canvas fabric piece with stitched vertical lines forming narrow pockets for holding crochet hooks in a handmade yarn tote bag.

These little slots preserve your instruments organized so they don’t disappear into the underside of the bag.

Step 6: Sew the Bag Physique

Now we assemble the tote.

Place the entrance panel and the lengthy facet panel proper sides collectively.

Canvas tote bag fabric pieces pinned together along the bottom edge before sewing the seam.

The lengthy strip wraps round one facet, throughout the underside, and up the opposite facet of the bag.

Canvas tote bag panels pinned together along the sides and bottom while assembling a yarn project bag.

Sew with a ⅜-inch seam allowance.

As soon as the entrance panel is connected, sew the again panel to the remaining fringe of the facet strip, once more with proper sides collectively.

You must now have the tote bag’s form. This would be the view of the within.

Inside view of canvas tote bag with stitched seams and boxed corners showing raw edges before finishing the bag.

Step 7: End the Seams

To strengthen the bag and preserve the within neat, we are going to flatten the seams.

On the fitting facet of the bag, commence with the 2 backside seams and pinch them collectively.

Press and stitch. When you do the 2 backside sides, then do the 4 facet seams.

Close-up of folded canvas seam showing how to pinch the fabric to create a small outer lip for stability when finishing a tote bag edge.

Step 8: Sew the Straps

Take the strap items and fold every lengthy edge inward ½ inch. Press nicely.

Close-up of folded canvas strap with pressed edges and stitched seams while making a handmade tote bag strap.

Fold the strap in half lengthwise, then press once more to enclose the uncooked edges.

Folded canvas strap with stitched edges shown on a cutting mat during assembly of a handmade tote bag strap.

Topstitch alongside each side of every strap.

My straps are a little longer as a result of I have a tendency to carry a lot of yarn and instruments, however you possibly can shorten them in case you choose a shorter tote.

Connect the straps to the within of the bag opening.

Sew an X contained in the sq. to safe the straps firmly.

Step 9: Add the Yarn Feed Grommets

On the facet reverse the crochet hook holder, set up the grommets.

These permit your yarn to feed easily out of the bag when you crochet.

Thread the yarn by the grommet and proceed stitching with out the yarn ball rolling throughout the ground or tangling.

It’s one in all my favourite options of this bag.

step 10

Your Yarn Tote Is Completed

And that’s it! Your new yarn tote bag is prepared to maintain all of your crochet provides.

Load it up with yarn, hooks, patterns, and possibly a few sew markers, then take your crochet initiatives wherever you go.

As at all times, in case you run into any questions whereas following one in all my tutorials, depart a remark or ship me an e-mail. I’m at all times cheerful to assist.

Finished canvas yarn tote bag with blue Keep Calm and Carry Yarn panel and grommets for feeding yarn while crocheting.

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