PROJECT NAME Market Bag

• Print your pattern and cut out all pieces

according to instructions including the strap.

Iron your interfacing onto the wrong side of

your pieces. Mark the pocket zip guild on the

wrong side of one of your pocket pieces.

Mark the lock placement on the right side of

one of your flap pieces.

• Decide which of your main pieces will be the

back of the bag. Place the pocket piece you

have marked over your back piece. Make

sure it is sitting in the centre with the top

edges matching. Pin into place.

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• 20cm of Main Fabric

• 20cm of Vinyl (You can use

normal fabric)

• 20cm of Fabric for Lining

• 60cm of Iron on Interfacing (70cm

if using normal fabric instead of

vinyl)

• 2 x 38mm or 1½” D or

Rectangular Rings

• 1 x Turn lock closure

• 1 x 15cm Zip

• BERNINA #1 Foot

• BERNINA #4 Zipper Foot

• Thread to match

• BERNINA Market Pattern

Materials List

• Wind a bobbin and thread your machine.

Select straight stitch. Stitch around the zipper

placement rectangle. Use the centre line in

your foot to keep your sewing straight.

• Cut through both layers of fabric along the

centre of the rectangle and into the corners.

Method

• Pull the pocket piece through your cut

opening. Give the pocket a press so all the

lining it sitting behind your main piece.

• Place your zip under the cut out. The zip will

be a little longer. Pin the zip in place.

• Attach the zipper foot to your machine and

move the needle to the extreme left. Starting

at the end without the zip pull, stitch around

the rectangle, catching the zip as you go.

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• When you are coming close to the zip pull,

stop and lower the needle into the fabric. Lift

the foot and open the zip. This will allow you

to stitch nice and close to the zip. Finish

stitching around the rectangle.

• Turn your back piece to the wrong side. Place

your second pocket piece over the first with

right sides together. Pin the edges of the

pocket together.

• Change back to the #1 foot and put the

needle back in the centre position. Stitch the

two sides and bottom of the pocket pieces

together lining the edges of your fabric up

with the right-hand edge of your foot.

• Stitch in the darts in your main panels and

lining.

• Take your two main lining pieces and place

them right sides together. Using two pins,

mark a 10cm opening at the bottom. Stitch

around the two sides to the pins lining the

edge of the fabric up with the right-hand

edge of your foot.

• Take your two Flap pieces and place them

right sides together. Stitch around the sides

and bottom lining the edges up with the right-

hand edge of the foot. Clip small triangles of

fabric around the two curves.

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• Turn the flap through and give it a press.

Topstitch around the edge. The best way to

do this, is to line the edge up with the inside

edge of the foot.

• Do a second row of topstitching. Line the

right-hand edge of the foot up with your first

row of stitching. Move the needle to the

extreme right.

• Take one of your strap tap pieces. Fold up a

8mm hem along the 2 longest side. Move the

needle back to centre position and increase

the stitch length to 4mm. Stitch the hems

down.

• Fold the tab in halve with the wrong sides

together. Topstitch the folded edges together

lining the edges up with the inside edge of

the foot.

• Topstitch the other side of the tab so they

are both the same. Use the same method to

stich the second tab and the strap.

• Please Note: If using a normal fabric for the strap, fold

it in halve with the right sides together. Leave the stitch

length at 2.5mm. Stitch down the longest edge lining

the edges up with the right-hand edge of the foot. Turn

the strap through, press and topstitch the edges.

• Take your two closure pieces and place

them wrong sides together. Topstitch around

the edge lining the edges up with the right-

hand edge of the foot. Trim the raw edges

back so they sit around 3mm away from your

stitching.

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• Please Note: If using normal fabric, place rights sides

together and stitch around the sides and the curve

lining the edges up with the right-hand edge of the foot.

Clip little triangles out of the curve and turn through.

Give it a press and topstitch around the edge.

• Take your front main piece. Place your

closure on top with right sides together. Line

up the two bottom edges and make sure the

closure is in the centre. Stitch the closure in

place

• Take your stitch length back to 2.5mm. Place

your back and front main pieces right sides

together. Stitch around the sides and bottom

lining the edges up with the right-hand edge

of the foot. Turn the bag through to the right

side.

• Take your flap and place it along the back of

the of your bag with right sides together.

Make sure its in the centre and pin it in place.

Remove the tray table from your machine and

slide the bag over the free arm. Stitch the flap

in place.

• Take your strap tab and slide on your D or

rectangle ring. Fold the tab in half. Place the

raw edges of the tab so it starts where the

flap ends on each side. Use a bulldog clip to

hold the tabs. Stitch into place.

• Take you bag and put it inside your lining

making sure all the right sides are together.

Line up the raw edges and the side seams

and pin into place. Slide the bag over the

free arm and stitch around the opening

placing the fabric edges on the 1cm mark on

your stitch plate.

• Pull the bag through the gap in the bottom of

the lining. Topstitch the gap closed.

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• Push all of the lining into the bag and give the

top edge a good press. Slide the bag onto the

free arm of your machine and topstitch the

opening. Make sure your pull the flap up into

the machine when you get to the back.

• Take one end of your strap and thread it

through one of the D or Rectangle rings. Fold

up a 2cm hem and use a bulldog clip to hold

in place. Stitch the hem down.

• Before you do the same to the other side,

check the length of the strap. If needed, cut

the strap shorter and then attach it to the

other D or Rectangle ring using the same

method.

• Take your turn lock washer and place it over

your lock placement mark. Mark the two slits.

• Using a sharp pair of scissors pierce the

markings so you have two slits in the fabric.

Push the prongs of the male section of your

turn lock through the slits so the lock its on

the right side of the flap. Flip to the back and

slide the washer over the prongs. Fold the

prongs in, over the washer.

• Take the cut out section of the turn lock and

place it over the centre your closure flap.

Mark the centre cut out.

• Using sharp scissors, cut the rectangle

away.

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• Take the other cut out section with prongs.

Push the prongs through the hole to the back

of the closure tab. Flip the closure tab to the

back and slide your last section of the turn

lock over the prongs. Fold the prongs down to

secure in place.

• Fold to closure tab over the flap to make sure

the lock closes.

• Congratulations you have finished your bag!