DIY umbrella bag, pattern

My favorite umbrella broke... It's a shame! However, you should not part with it immediately. If there is no hope of repairing it, it makes sense to remake it into an original handbag.

For example, it could be a string bag. Then you can save on packages, while at the same time feeling like a fighter for the environment. Or make a stylish pleated product, decorated with bows or frills. Finally, you can make a children's sports bag like a change bag!

We'll tell you how to sew a practical bag with your own hands.

Preparing fabric for alteration

Using a steam ripper or sharp scissors, carefully tear the fabric away from the umbrella frame. The main thing is not to spoil it! More likely, The fabric needs to be washed and ironed! Otherwise, the finished item will not look too neat.

We cut off the seam that covers the edge of the umbrella, removing all the threads. The seams used to sew the wedges remain.

ADVICE. It is advisable to wash waterproof nylon in the economical mode with cold water.

Sew a shopping bag

The model of the bag is a stylish string bag without a bottom or lining.

To make it, you only need a prepared umbrella tent, scissors, thread and a sewing machine.

Uncover

We fold the awning in half so that the wrong side is on the inside, and the halves of the bent wedges on each side are the same. The fold line is the bottom of the future bag.

Important! The synthetic materials used to make umbrellas are highly slippery. We must ensure that the halves of the future product do not move apart.

Having leveled the material, we place the pattern paper strictly in the center to understand what size the bag can turn out to be. On average, its height is about 46–48 cm, width is about 40 cm.

Now we model the pattern. In appearance, the pattern resembles an “alcoholic” T-shirt: “straps”, a round neckline between them and, as it were, slits for the arms.

The “straps” will then be used to make handles.

Pattern parameters

• Total height: 46–48 cm.
• The height of the sides is 30–32 cm.
• Bottom width - 40–42 cm.
• The height from the bottom to the cutout between the “straps” is 32–34 cm (a couple of centimeters longer than the height of the sides).
• The width of the “straps” is 6 cm, there should be a space of 18–20 cm between their tops.
• The upper parts of the “straps” (5 cm from the edge) should remain 6 cm wide, then they gradually expand.

The basis

• Connect the halves of the fabric together with pins. The pattern needs to be pressed down with something heavy and traced along the contours.
• Without removing the pins, carefully cut along the contour, allowances have already been included. We remove the pins.
• We take cut sections of the awning, also folded exactly together with the inside out. We pin and place the pattern on them so that the upper part - the handles - fits and about 8 cm from the top of the sides. We outline and cut out, these will be the parts for strengthening the handles of the bag.
• We have a gaping hole in the middle of the future bottom of the string bag; before, the top of the umbrella came out from there. It needs to be stitched up.To do this, you need two pentagons made from scraps of fabric. We prepare a template on paper: the distance from the center to any of the corners is 5 cm, the size of each side is 4.5 cm.
• We outline and cut out one pentagon along the contour, the second - with an allowance of 1 cm from the main contour. This part will be needed to process the hole on the outside of the bag.
• We process the allowances by turning them from the edges to the wrong side by 1 cm and stitching them with a basting stitch.
• We place the smaller pentagon on the hole in the bottom of the bag from the wrong side, pin it and sew along the contour using a typewriter.
• We do the same with the large pentagon, but from the front part.

ATTENTION. It is better to carry out any detail on paper first, so as not to spoil the fabric by making a mistake in the calculations.

Pens

Now let's remember the details to enhance the strength of the bag handles.

• For this We apply one of them to the main part patterns from one edge face to face. Having secured with pins, we sew the parts along the “neckline” and “slots for the arms”. The seam is laid at a distance from the edge the width of the machine foot.
• We sew the other part in the same way from the other edge. On the rounded parts of the handles at the allowances we make small notches.
• On one side of the bag, turn the handles right side out, straighten the seam allowances properly and iron them. We retreat a centimeter from the edge of the handles turned to the front side and sew.
• On the other side, turn the handles inside out.
• Having folded the blank for the bag in half, insert the handles turned on the front side into the handles turned inside out and straighten them out. We chop off the tops of the handles and, stepping back 1.5 cm from the top edge, sew a seam in the forward direction, then in the opposite direction.
• By stretching the bag on different sides, we get a completely sewn one handle. We repeat all the manipulations with the second handle.

Shutdown

Now we sew the bag on the sides. Stepping back half a centimeter from the edge, we lay a seam along the front side. Then, having trimmed the seam allowance to 3 mm, turn the bag inside out and sew the side seams at a distance of 7–8 mm from the edge.

ADVICE. If the tightness of the seams is in doubt, you can use doublerin to strengthen them.

All that remains is to process the edges of the parts that reinforce the handles on the inside of the bag. For this you need to fold them twice and stitch them (1 mm from the fold). We fasten these parts by laying them on the sides along a short seam, and remove excess threads from everywhere.

The umbrella string bag is ready for a shopping trip!

Useful tips

• Pockets will enhance the functionality of the bag.
• Don't throw away umbrella covers. They will come in handy when an out-of-use accessory is used for creativity. For example, on the inside of the bag there is a case for a mobile phone, a pouch for small items, etc.
• Is the umbrella fabric damaged in some places? We take similar material in contrasting colors and make stylish patches.