The Charlie Tote Bag Online Course
About This Course
- £49.99
- 57 lessons
- 3 hours of video content
- Stop / Pause / Rewind and watch as many times as you want
- Downloadable Pattern
Course Curriculum
Welcome! - Introduction
🎥 - Welcome! - Course Overview
📩 - What is included in Your Online Course + Kit - Process
🎥 - This is a video showing our Leather Colour Choices for your Bag Making Kit
📩 - Pick Your Leather & Hardware Colours for Your Bag Making Kit
📩 - Template Overview
Everything You'll Need
📩 - Template - Overview & Downloads
🎥 - Tools
🎥 - What Hardware You will Need
🎥 - What Leather, Lining & Stabilisers You Will Need
🎥 - Set Up Your machine Ready For sewing Leather
01 - Cutting the Bag
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Marking Your Handbag Template on to the Leather
🎥 - Checking Your Score Line
🎥 - Cutting out the Main Body, Pockets, Notches & Handles
🎥 - Cutting out the Fusing & Lining
02 - General Prep
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Marking Fusing Positions on Your Leather & ironing
🎥 - Gluing on the Pocket
🎥 - Scoring the Final Template onto Your Pocket & Cutting
🎥 - Gluing the Handle & trigger Hook Strap
🎥 - Scoring & Cutting the Final Handles
🎥 - Cutting and Prepping the Zip Frame & Fusing
03 - Polishing & Painting Your Leather
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Polishing the Raw Edge of the Leather
🎥 - Painting the Edge of the Leather
04 - Bag Construction: Pocket & Zip
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Sticking the Zip to the Leather
🎥 - Prepping the Inside Zip Pocket & Marking Patterns on the Lining
🎥 - Sewing the Main Entrance Leather Zip Gusset
🎥 - Sewing the Leather Zip Frame Pocket
🎥 - Pulling the Threads to the back and Hand Knotting them
🎥 - Cutting the Underneath of the Lining
🎥 - Sewing the Lower Zip Frame Edge
🎥 - Pull Thread to the Back and Prep the Pocket lining
🎥 - Sewing the 3 Final Edges of the Upper Zip Frame
🎥 - Prepping the Leather Pocket for Sewing & Marking the Rivet Pattern
🎥 - Sewing on the Pocket
🎥 - Closing off the Rivets
05 - Bag Construction: Seams & Sewing
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Prepping the Zip Gusset on to Front and Back Main Body
🎥 - Sewing the Zip Gusset on to the Front and Back Panel
🎥 - Prepping the Side Seams for Sewing
🎥 - Sewing the Side Seams
🎥 - Gluing the Side Seams Flat
🎥 - Prepping the Base for Sewing
🎥 - Sewing the Base
🎥 - Trimming the Corners & Gluing the Leather Board
🎥 - Prepping the Lining for Sewing
🎥 - Sewing the Lining
🎥 - Pessing/Gluing the Lining Side Seams & Prepping Top Edge of the Bag
🎥 - Sewing Top Edge of the Bag and Sew the Leather Strap
06 - Final Construction
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Turning the Bag
🎥 - Top Stitching the Inside Facing
🎥 - Gluing the Inside Facing
🎥 - Pressing the Seam Allowance & Sewing the Base
07 - Final Touches
🎥 - Chapter Overview
🎥 - Top Stitching the Shoulder Straps
🎥 - Adding the Trigger Hook
🎥 - Final Assembly!
All Finished!
🎥 - Thank You for Watching!
Learning Outcomes
- Learn how to use our RJ Leather Studio handbag templates
- Learn about different stabilisers
- How to prepare the leather for sewing
- How to sew an internal leather zip frame pocket
- How to sew a main zip closure
- How to finish the raw edge of leather
- How to add an internal key strap with clip
- How to fully line a tote bag
- How to attach a Leatherboard base to the bag
- How to make leather straps and attach with rivets