Hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world recently I did a series where I made
this really fun messenger bag and it has this amazing strap well I want to do a
little tutorial today to show you not only how to make a strong strap but a
long strap and you can make either a thick version like this or a thin
version like this I'm going to show you how to make it right now when I do my
strap especially my long strap I usually am working in pieces that are 18 inches
long I'm going to be using shorter pieces because I want you to be able to
see the project happening with 18 inch pieces it gets a little hard to see
everything so I'm going to be using 11 inch pieces and what I've got is two
11 inch pieces cut the same length and all I'm going to do is I'm going to
overlap by a half an inch or thumb width right in the middle there then I'm going
to flip this over now I'm going to use two different colors just so that you
can see it easily I'm going to be using a piece of yellow tape but if you're
making a strap and you want the cleanest look I would use all the same color and
then come back and embellish now what I'm going to do is lay this piece of
yellow tape this other piece of tape right on the back over that seam and
just lay it nice and flat now if you want to extend and make a longer strap
then what you want to do is you want to be adding extra pieces now to make sure
if you're working in long pieces to make sure that you get it nice and even and
clean what we're going to do is we're just going to fold this piece up and
over right now and remember if this was all the same color you would hardly even
see it and then we fold the top part down over top to extend what I do is I
flip this over I can see where my seam lines are I'm going to take a second
piece of tape now here's the thing I'm going to inset about an inch and a half
now we take my second piece and do the same thing insetting about an inch and
a half and remember I've got that nice overlap there then I flip this over and
I take my yellow piece so that you can see it nice and easy here and I'm going
to lay it right over top and then I'm going to fold these edges up and over
and you can see how you could continue making this as long as you wanted now
again I like to use 18-inch pieces when I do this but if you're going to be if
you're novice and you're just starting out you may want to work with short
pieces like 12-inch pieces and just keep adding adding adding now the other thing
that I want to add here is I do want to strengthen this center point so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to take my piece of tape here and I'm going to lay
this this is about a five inch piece of tape I'm going to lay that right over
that seam I'm going to flip it over so that it seals that side and then flip it
over again and seal that edge and that five inches is going to be perfect for
going all the way around now you can see that you're getting a nice strong strap
and this is a nice hefty strap so if you are going to make a big bag this is what
you would want to do if you want to make a thinner strap a strap that is going to
be for a smaller bag I'm going to show you that real quick it's basically the
same technique except we're only going to be using one piece of tape to make a
base strap so I'm going to take one piece of tape and I'm going to fold it
over onto itself all the way in half so that I make a nice thin strap now to
make it extra heavy-duty if you want to you can come back and add a second piece
of tape on the other side what I'm going to do is line this edge the sticky edge
up with the folded over edge just like that fold it over onto itself this is
going to make it super strong and again if we want to lengthen it I'm going to
do that same thing that we did before
lay a piece of tape down make sure that you are insetting by about an inch and
a half to two inches and fold this over onto itself and repeat with that second
piece this is going to make a super strong thin strap strap that's going to
be about an inch wide and then again come back now you don't need a four inch
piece of tape this time you just need a three inch piece of tape come back line
it up on the edge right over that seam flip it over I'll flip it over and now
you have a thin strap that's super strong so thick or thin we've got a
super strong strap that can be of any length that you want and that's all
there is to making a strap now you can make that strap as long as you want
remember and as long as you're adding that extra reinforcement you should have
a super strong strap now if you liked this video and you want more of it well
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