Month 5: Hobo Bag - Making Bags: A Field Guide Kit

Sophisticated and stylish, this Hobo Bag was designed with minimal details to allow you to gradually expand your bag-making expertise but also to pair effortlessly with everything in your closet. With this project, build skills in fabric preparation, adding shape to the top edge of the bag, creating a base, assembling strap connectors, creating a shoulder strap, adding an interior slip pocket, installing an interior zipper pocket, assembling a bag with a zipper closure, and adding optional hardware and embellishments. The shaping along the top edge of the bag can be omitted for a tote bag silhouette instead.

FINISHED SIZE: 11 ̋ wide × 11 ̋ high × 4 ̋ deep (27.9 × 27.9 × 10.2cm)

INCLUDED IN KIT:

• 18” x 42" Main Fabric - AFR-13503-12 Robert Kaufman Architextures - Grey
• 9” x 25"Contrast Fabric - Concrete Pebble
• 27” x 42" Lining
• 21” x 28" Sew-In Foam (28”)    
• 36” x 19" Fusible Woven Interfacing 
• 26” #5 Zipper *
• Hardware *
• (2) Zipper Pull  (Rectangle STS183) 
• (2) 1-1/2” O-Ring  (STS168)
• (4) Dome Feet  (STS178)
• (1) Zipper Cord End (STS176) 
• (1) Handmade Label  (STS213) 

* Zipper and hardware finish may vary from bag images.

This kit does not include the instructions to make the bag. All instructions are found in the Making Bags: A Field Guide Book and in Month 1: Book & Supplies of the Making Bags Book Club.