Ok, this is how I often do handles on tote bags, and it's easier to see in person than to describe. So here goes -- To actually see how this is done, take a fairly long length (4' to 6' is nice) of ribbon or yarn and tie or pin the ends together. You have a very large floppy ring, right? Now, stretch it out on a table into a long skinny oval or hotdog shape with the sides of the oval just a few inches apart. Long and skinny is the key here. Grab your purse or a shoebox or a folded up sweater or something rather rectangular in shape and not slippery, and put in on top of the long oval ribbon/yarn right in the middle of the length. Pick up the two ends of the long oval. Imagine that the ribbon makes the handles and your purse or shoebox or whatever is the bag. If these were real handles and a real bag you would be stitching the handle to the bag now. See it? This is so easy it's confusing somehow.
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i think i'd best go find something long to do this with. oh doh!!! i just reread the website and what i thot i'd read first time i didnt read. i am truely the IIR here. for some odd reason i read it as crossing underneath, thats what confuddled me. back to the drawing board for me. Mary, thanks for helping me make sense of what was must my idiocy. j.
"Mary" wrote... Ok, this is how I often do handles on tote bags, and it's easier to see in person than to describe. So here goes -- To actually see how this is done, take a fairly long length (4' to 6' is nice) of ribbon or yarn and tie or pin the ends together. You have a very large floppy ring, right? Now, stretch it out on a table into a long skinny oval or hotdog shape with the sides of the oval just a few inches apart. Long and skinny is the key here. Grab your purse or a shoebox or a folded up sweater or something rather rectangular in shape and not slippery, and put in on top of the long oval ribbon/yarn right in the middle of the length. Pick up the two ends of the long oval. Imagine that the ribbon makes the handles and your purse or shoebox or whatever is the bag. If these were real handles and a real bag you would be stitching the handle to the bag now. See it? This is so easy it's confusing somehow.
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