• Use a favorite pattern or template as a starting point for limitless possibilities
• Personalize your bag by experimenting with straps, creating ruching and gathers, adding a zipper, and much more

• Innovative Bags and Totes Book:
  • Add panache to everyday bags through innovative decorations and functional changes
  • Start with your favorite bag template or pattern and personalize as you wish
  • Eight innovative bag ideas included in book:
    • Commuter Bag: Adding offset adjustable straps
    • Totes-The Perfect Palette: Creating tote bags from fat quarters
    • Gather-Around Bag: add gathered or ruched accents
    • Easy Bag Change-up: change a bag with a flap closure to a strap closure
    • Smocked Tote: add unique smocking details using a Yo-Yo maker
    • Zipper-Upper Closure: add a zipper closure to a tote without a closure
    • Bag to Backpack: convert a traditional bag shape into a backpack
    • Drawcord Top Bag: transform a handbag pattern into a tote with a drawcord top
  • NOTE: Nancy used Trace 'n Create templates to make bags, which are sold separately; look at Table of Contents to see what templates were used with each bag idea
  • Full color photos and illustrations
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Soft cover, 19 page book by Sewing With Nancy
• Innovative Bags and Totes DVD:
  • Nancy demonstrates how to use basic bag templates or patterns and make decorative and functional changes to create eight different bags or totes, each with unique style and appeal
  • 60 minute DVD
  • Closed captioned for the hearing impaired
  • Nancy's Corner Segment 1 features Diane Haag, a dialysis nurse who is able to provide personalized comfort pillows to her patients with the help of a local sewing guild.
  • Nancy's Corner Segment 2 features Mena Trott of SewWeekly.com. Mena sews a dress every week and blogs about her projects to the sewing community.
• Table of Contents from book:
  * Adding Offset Adjustable Straps
  - Use Trace 'n Create California Bag template (Item CL9509) or a comparable commercial pattern
  * Totes-The Perfect Palette
  - Use Trace 'n Create Florida Tote template (Item CL9515) or a comparable commercial tote pattern
  * Gather-Around Bag
  - Use Trace 'n Create California Bag template (Item CL9509) or comparable commercial pattern
  * Easy Bag Change-Up
  - Use Trace 'n Create California Bag template (Item CL9509) or comparable commercial pattern
  * Smocked Tote
  - Use Trace 'n Create Florida Tote template (Item CL9515) or comparable commercial pattern
  * Zipper-Upper Closure
  - Use Trace 'n Create Florida Tote template (Item CL9515) or comparable commercial pattern
  * Bag to Backpack
  - Use Trace 'n Create California Bag template (Item CL9509) or comparable rectangular bag pattern
  * Drawcord Top Bag
  - Use Trace 'n Create City Bag template (CL9501) or comparable rectangular bag pattern

Part 2
Use savvy techniques for both decorative and functional changes to your bag patterns
Tweak your bag patterns to make them more innovative. Learn a smocking technique achieved with yo-yo makers, add a secure zipper closure to an open-top tote, change your bag into a backpack, or add a drawcord top to your tote. Make any of these unique changes for a new look to your bags and totes.

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