Baguette Bag FREE sewing pattern

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This is a How to sew a Baguette Bag FREE sewing pattern and tutorial from the awesome designer Sew Can She.

Here’s your chance to sew a small purse in the cutest shape – a Baguette Bag! This purse may be small but you can still pack it with everything you need. It will hold your phone, wallet, sunglasses, pens, and lipstick, and still have room for all those receipts we are handed.

The designer says that with step-by-step photo instructions and downloadable templates, you will be able to sew this purse in an afternoon.

The interior of the Baguette Bag has a Welt Zipper Pocket on one side and a credit-card-sized patch pocket on the other side.

This blog post has been converted to an optional PDF that’s optimized for printing. The Baguette Bag printable pattern templates and the instructions are included in the designer’s blog post and are totally free to read, print, and sew! However, if you desire an optimized for printing PDF download then the charge for that is only $2 and of course, that PDF download is totally optional.

Recommended fabrics for this free baguette purse sewing pattern:
This pretty accessory can be sewn using cotton quilting fabric, cotton canvas, home decor weight fabrics, cork, leather, vinyl, and more! The designer shares stabilizer options for making this little bag beautiful with whatever material you choose.

In the example shown the exterior of this Baguette Bag was sewn with cotton canvas (from Rifle Paper Company). The designer used Wrights Maxi Piping to give the edges some extra love (don’t skip this easy step!) and she made a 1″’ wide adjustable strap.

Sizing info:
When you have finished making your very own Baguette bag it will measure approximately 10½” wide by 5″’ tall and 2″ deep.

Instead of traditional interfacing, the designer chose to interline this bag with inexpensive craft felt. It provides a beautiful feel that doesn’t need to be quilted and doesn’t ever get the bubbles and wrinkles that can sometimes appear with fusible fleece.

This small bag would also look amazing with a flexible foam stabilizer (such as Soft and Stable) quilted to your fabrics. The designer shares cutting instructions for sewists who are using flexible foam stabilizers.

If you love using fusible fleece, you can still use it. It would provide the same amount of body.

If you want to make this bag with a thick exterior material such as vinyl, leather, cork, or very heavy fabric, the felt interlining can be optional.

The zipper technique that the designer used is demonstrated in Video Lesson 2 of her Designer Zipper Bags Video Course. SheI totally recommends that you sign up and watch it for free! In addition, the binding technique is shown in Lesson 3.

What’s needed to make a Baguette Bag:

1/2 yard of fabric for the bag exterior and strap. Suggested fabrics: quilting cotton fabric, cotton canvas, cotton/linen blend fabrics, cork fabric, leather, faux leather or vinyl, laminated fabric, home decor fabric,
1/4 yard of fabric for the bag interior and optional pockets. Suggested fabrics: quilting cotton fabric, lightweight cotton or polyester blend fabrics,
1/4 yard cotton fabric for binding the interior seams (a fat quarter will work best, see Cutting below),
1/4 yard of acrylic craft felt (white or another neutral color),
1 1/4 yards of Wrights Maxi Piping,
A 12″ long YKK size 4.5 handbag zipper or ByAnnie Zipper By the Yard,
A 6″ or longer zipper for the interior welt zipper pocket – the designer used a regular dressmaking zipper for my interior pocket, but a wide handbag zipper would be fine too,
One rectangle ring size 1,
One metal D-ring, size 1,
One swivel snap clip with a 1″ opening,
One tri-glide slide, size 1″,
Quilt basting spray, such as SpraynBond,
pencil or fabric marking pen,
Sewing stiletto (very helpful for the binding!),
Wonder clips,
A heavy-duty needle, such as my favorite Superior Titanium Coated Topstitch needle, size 100/16.