Skill Level: Confident Beginner

The Simple Tote is a stylish, fully lined tote bag featuring an exterior slip pocket to safe keep all your personal essentials such as your cellphone, keys, or wallet. It also works great as a beach bag for your towel, a good book, and some sunscreen. Choose two of your fabric fabrics, some interfacing and thread and you're on way to creating a great handmade bag!

This is a great project for beginner level sewists who have taken our Sewing 101 class or have an equivalent experience level. Students must be able to confidently thread and operate a sewing machine independently.

Finished Bag Dimensions: 15" wide at top x 12-1/2" wide at bottom x 12-1/2" tall x 2-1/2" deep.

Required Materials:

• (1) Pattern: Tote-Ally Easy by Studio M Squared
• 3/4 yard for exterior fabric
• 3/4 yard for lining fabric
• 2 yards of Pellon SF101
• (1) spool of coordinating thread

Recommended Fabrics:

• We recommend using quilting cotton or canvas for the exterior and quilting cotton for the lining.

Required Tools:

• fabric scissors or rotary cutter + acrylic ruler
  
• seam ripper
• pins and/or wonder clips
  
• chalk and/or frixion marker