Read through the instructions thoroughly before beginning and assemble all the materials needed to complete the project. A Toppers Canvas Tote, 15” x 16”, Style No.800 was used for the project. If you’d like, pick colors to use in stitching the design to coordinate with swimsuits and towels. The fabric bands at the top were just scraps of fabrics in my stash.
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Step 2:
Press the tote well, including the handles.
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Step 3:
To find the center point of the tote front, fold up the bottom to the bottom of the band and crease lightly. Bring the sides together and crease the fold lightly. Place pins or a target sticker at the center point.
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Step 4:
Load the chosen design on the machine. Hoop the front of the tote with a piece or two of tearaway stabilizer. Place the hoop on the machine and position the needle over the center mark. Remove the pins or target sticker.
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Step 5:
Stitch the design following the color sequence. After the design has finished stitching, remove the project from the hoop and remove the excess stabilizer.
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Step 6:
To add a little decoration to the bag, measure around the bag, and also measure how wide you’d like to make the band and cut a piece of fabric those measurements plus seam allowances. Press under the seam allowances on both edges. Seam together the band. Pin the band in place at the top of the bag. Edge stitch the trim in place at the top of the bag
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Step 7:
and along the bottom of the band. If you’d like, box the bottom of the bag by turning the bag wrong side out and meeting the side seam to the corresponding fold of the tote bottom and stitch across the corner about an inch or so. Repeat for the other corner of the tote bag. Turn the piece right side out and form the corners well.
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Step 8:
Thank you for purchasing the tote bag designs! Have fun stitching up these quick totes for your beach and pool swimmers.
Ramona Baird has been in the embroidery industry for over 23 years. She and her husband owned a commercial and retail embroidery store in Arizona for many years. She is an experienced digitizer having been mentored by award-winners Pat Williams and Lindee Goodall. Ramona is a contributor to “Creative Machine Embroidery” magazine having 5 covers to her credit. Ramona has worked for Wilcom America and served many years as Education Director for the American Sewing Guild. With a degree in fashion design, she is able to design and execute patterns which Pat Williams says are “out of the box” in creativity and application. Ramona likes to challenge the boundaries of embroidery and bring new and exciting designs, ideas, and projects to EmbroideryDesigns.com. She wants embroiderers of all levels to increase their skills and enjoyment in using their embroidery machine for gift-making and personal pleasure.
