Hand bag

Hi friends, I have used two  contrast coloured clothes in this bag.
I have used lining cloth inside to give some strength to the bag.
So first join the two contrast cloth and take lining cloth of total length and attach on the inside.

I have done Kutch work in the green part.

For the handle I rolled newspaper in a tight roll and used the green cloth to cover the paper and stitched on the roll. At first I thought of inserting the paper into the green colour Patti cloth. But then I realized that by stitching on the roll, we can get some sturdiness to the handle.

The basic idea is to stitch a bag economically.
I have attached a zip to the opening.
There is a very easy method to fix the zipper.
First take two small rectangular clothes of width 2inches by length 4inches.

Fix this clothes to the two ends of the zipper.
Now place the right side of the cloth on the zib and stitch along the raw edge. Once it is done if we turn the cloth right side up the raw edge will go down. To get a good finish you can put a stitch on the edge of the right cloth too.
Now do this for the other side of the zib.

If we do not have a zipper footpedal, then as we stitch the zib, we can slowly open or close the zib to ease out the stitching.

This drawing will show you the easy method of fixing a zib.

 As you can see I have taken an 8"zib. Take two rectangular pieces of 2"by 4" and fix on either side of the zib by folding the raw edges inside.

Now in the second drawing you can see that I have placed the cloth right side facing the zib and stitched along the dotted line. 

Now turn the cloth out and put a stitch again on the dotted line to fix the cloth perfectly on the zib. 

Do this for the other piece also.

Then fix the handles and stitch the side to get this beautiful hand bag.