| | Notions - 2 meters or 2.5 yards of good quality white cotton fabric approx (I always buy extra fabric)
- 2 meters or 2.5 yards of lining fabric for the bag
- 2 meters or 2.5 yards of “Floriani Stitch N shape”
- 2 meters or 2.5 yards of “Cut Away”
- 1 meter or 1 yard of fabric for the top part of the bag where you hand stitch the feather boa type thing and put the cording through. I used a pale marble type of fabric
- White feather boa type thing
- Handles (I used the clear plastic with silver bits running through
- White cord 5 meters 4.5 yards or there about, I like to buy more than I need
- 2 white pompoms
- 18 Crystals
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| | Instructions for your stabilizers Hoop your white fabric with 1 sheet of “Cut Away” Once you have your hoop in the machine then slide under “Stitch N shape” Start stitching |
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| | PLEASE NOTE: Some photographs below are from my Winter Wonderland set Below are the Instructions for - Snow_01
- Snow_02
- Snow_03
- Snow_04
- Snow_05
- Snow_06
- Snow Drops_01 stitch 4
- Snow Drops_02 stitch 2
- Crys_bag Under_01
- Crys_bag Under_02
- Crys_bag Under_03 (If you can fit this panel into your large hoop you will not have to stitch out both Crys_bag Under_01 and Crys_bag Under_02 as this panel is the exact size of the bag benith
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| Stitch out Snow_01 (These following instructions apply to all the Crystal bag panel scenes) Take the hoop out of your machine (Do not take the snow_01 out of the hoop) turn the hoop over so that the back of the Snow_01 is facing you. |
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 | Cut a piece of the backing fabric larger than the Snow_01.
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| Put the piece of backing fabric you just cut out over the back of the Snow_01. Not forgetting to have the right side of your backing fabric facing you. |
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 | - Sticky tape the backing fabric down to the stabilizer, this helps to keep the backing fabric in place
- Put the hoop back into the machine
- Stitch out the line that holds the backing fabric
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 | Take the sticky tape away. Cut away the backing fabric keeping the winter scene in the hoop at all times. |
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| Backing fabric cut. |
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| - Put your hoop back into the machine
- Your machine should now be doing the satin stitch border
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| Satin stitch border from the back |
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| This is the base of the bag. I suggest you use a dark fabric for the base of the bag as this is the part of the bag that always seems to get dirty |
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| | I had a large enough hoop to be able to stitch the base in one go “Crys_Bag Under_03” If you do not have a large enough hoop I have designed the base so you can stitch - Crys_Bag Under_01
- Crys_Bag Under_02
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| The photo to the left shows you: “Snow_02” is zigzagged to “Snow Drops_01” |
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 | The photo to the left shows you panels “Snow Drops_01” and “Snow Drops_02” Top Section “Snow_02” “Snow_01” and “Snow_05” |
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| The photo to the left shows you the actual layout of each panel |
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| Join the short end of the base to “Snow Drops_02” |
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| Stitching the short end of the base to “Snow Drops_02”
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 | Stitching the other side of the base to “Snow Drops_01” |
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 | Stitching the base to “both Snow Drops_01 |
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 | Bending and pushing to get “Snow Drops_02” stitched to the base. This takes a bit of tugging and pulling to get the sides together correctly. |
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 | Stitching the “Snow Drops_02” to “Snow Drops_01”
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| Showing you from another angle the stitching “Snow Drops_01” to “Snow Drops_02” |
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 | Joining “Snow Drops_02” to the base. |
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 | Stitching “Snow Drops_02” to the base. |
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 | Photo of the bottom layer of the bag all stitched in place |
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Instructions for the draw string on the top of the bag
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 | Cut two pieces of fabric 40 cm each or 16 inches each width Length 20 cm or 8 inches in depth. |
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| | Stitch the hem you just pressed |
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 | At each end of the two lengths of fabric stitch a small hem from the top down around 8 cm or 3 inches |
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 | Press with your iron a clean double hem at one end of the two lengths, wide enough for the draw string to go through 2.5 cm or 1 inch Stitch the hem you just pressed Press the bottom of the long panel and then stitch |
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 | Before you stitch the sides together mark where you would like your stitching to stop, this is where you early on had stitched a small hem on the all the four sides for the draw string to pass through Stitch both sides |
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 | I hand stitched the feather boa just below the hem of the draw string |
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 | I took this photo after I had hand stitched the handles to the bag |
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 | You now put the draw string through and I put on the drawstring at each end a pompom, this is just a bit of fun, but looks great. |
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 | I then hand stitched the handles onto the lining fabric. |
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 | You glue the fabric to the inside of the bag making sure that the some of the fabric and boa are up over the top panels of the bag. I then stitched the crystals onto the bag |
