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Giveaway- Sew4Home Bags and Totes

Leave a comment in today’s post by March 16, 2017 and you are in the running for this awesome bag and tote making book.

Open to U.S. residents only please.

Create cool carryalls–no pattern required!

Hit the town, office or schoolyard with these one-of-a-kind bags and totes! In this handy beginner’s guide, the experts behind Sew4Home.com show you how to create ten hip projects, from clutches and shoulder bags to a slick yoga mat sling and a vintage kids’ book bag. No paper patterns required!
 
Throughout Sew4Home Bags and Totes, you’ll find step-by-step instructions and sewing tutorials. Learn to make ruffles, fussy cut fabric, add an inset zipper, and other design details to give your bag a professional finish. Thanks to authors Liz Johnson and Anne Adams, learning to sew trend-setting bags and totes has never been easier or more fashionable!

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Comments

  1. I would love to win a copy of this book. I own more bags than I will ever use, but, that doesn’t stop me from making more. Thanks for the opportunity!

  3. I’ve made several simple tote bags, but would love to make more complex ones. This book would be perfect!

  4. I’d love to expand my sewing skills by trying to make some tote bags. Thanks for the great giveaway!

  9. Thinking about Christmas gifts and making everyone a tote would be perfect! Would love to win this book!

  13. Me please! This book looks amazing! It has several unique bags just waiting for me to make! Thank you for the opportunity to enter this giveaway!

  14. Bags and totes are my go-to storage system! Would love to take a trip down this book’s garden paths!

    from windswept VT,
    the Vermonster

  16. I would love this book. I am always making tote bags for gifts. Always need new ideas.

  20. I love the cover tote! And I use a tote daily carrying my belongings to work, I am hard on them, broken straps, torn bottoms, dirty from throwing around and need a new one at least every 6 months, so this would be a great book to win!

  21. I have been learning more about bag construction this past year. I very much want to keep learning and improving and this book would be a terrific help.

  25. Sew4Home is such a great website- and I am always checking out their tote patterns to sew. This book would have all the resources in one place.

  27. I would love to expand my sewing knowledge. I love bags! This would be a great opportunity to win!!

  33. Can never have too many totes. I have just begun sewing some project bags, but really want to make a tote like this!
    Would love the book! Thanks for the opportunity for this!

  42. I can never find totes that are the right size. With a copy of this book, I could make my own.

  43. The bag on the cover caught my eye!! I would love to make this. I have found that carrying a tote, saves me from all of those nasty plastic bags!! Thanks for the great giveaway!!

  47. I would love this bag! Perfect tote to be stylish and still carry tons of things. 🙂

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