Month 5: Hobo Bag - Making Bags: A Field Guide Kit

Sophisticated and stylish, this Hobo Bag was designed with minimal details to allow you to gradually expand your bag-making expertise but also to pair effortlessly with everything in your closet. With this project, build skills in fabric preparation, adding shape to the top edge of the bag, creating a base, assembling strap connectors, creating a shoulder strap, adding an interior slip pocket, installing an interior zipper pocket, assembling a bag with a zipper closure, and adding optional hardware and embellishments. The shaping along the top edge of the bag can be omitted for a tote bag silhouette instead.

FINISHED SIZE: 11 wide 11 high 4 deep (27.9 27.9 10.2cm)

INCLUDED IN KIT:

• 18 x 42″ Main Fabric – AFR-13503-12 Robert Kaufman Architextures – Grey
• 9 x 25″Contrast Fabric – Concrete Pebble
• 27 x 42″ Lining
• 21 x 28″ Sew-In Foam (28)
• 36 x 19″ Fusible Woven Interfacing
• 26 #5 Zipper *
• Hardware *
• (2) Zipper Pull (Rectangle STS183)
• (2) 1-1/2 O-Ring (STS168)
• (4) Dome Feet (STS178)
• (1) Zipper Cord End (STS176)
• (1) Handmade Label (STS213)

* Zipper and hardware finish may vary from bag images.

This kit does not include the instructions to make the bag. All instructions are found in theMaking Bags: A Field Guide Bookand inMonth 1: Book & Supplies of the Making Bags Book Club.