Messenger Bag Tutorial Part 5: Making Bag Lining

Part 5. Messenger Bag Tutorial: Making Bag Lining. (The beginning here)

Messenger Bag Tutorial Part 4: Installing Snap, Making Flap, Constructing Bag Body. (The beginning here)

Messenger Bag Tutorial Part 3: Straps, Piping, Zipper Pouch. (The beginning here)

Messenger Bag Tutorial Part 2: Cutting Instructions

This begins the tutorials for my messenger bag. Supply list is here. Because this is quite an involved project, it's too much for a single post.

It was a great bag for a while. I made up the design myself, which is good and bad. I made mistakes on this one. One of my worst mistakes was using light-colored quilting weight fabric rather than home dec. The bag wore out quickly. After just one washing it lost a lot of its body and just slumped after that. It lasted about a year and then went on the top shelf of the closet. I held onto to it for that day when I wanted to duplicate it, since overall I really liked the design

Friendship Hexagon Mini - traditional Friendship Star block.
Want to make your own Friendship Hexagon block? Here's a super easy tutorial to follow for a 12.5" unfinished block.

Double Flip Half-Square Triangle Tutorial

This sophisticated cousin of the half-square triangle unit can be used in any half-square triangle block you can think of, and is made quite simply. Starting with a half-square triangle unit, you add a smaller square and sew along the diagonal using a stitch-and-flip technique, much like you use in improvisational piecing.

This super easy block tutorial shows exactly how I made the lovely mini. I made four of these blocks, and you'll see when you stitch these blocks together, they create a gorgeous, interlocked look.