By Douglas R. Williams

To make a purse insert for organising the items in your bag, prepare all the materials you’ll need, cut the fabric and interfacing and fasten them together, start sewing in the corner, edge stitch the whole piece, secure the lower part by stitching a completed edge, customize the size of the pockets, continue sewing, and finalize the finishing details.

Purse organizers are good for making all the stuff inside your bag accessible and organized. If you are using several bags for various activities, using wallet inserts will also help you move your items quickly because they are all saved in one case. You may personalise your purse insert to accommodate your keys, mobile phone and other valuable belongings you keep inside your own bag by following these simple and easy guidelines:

Get all the items you need

To make your own purse insert, prepare at least one half of a yard of fabric, some thick fusible interfacing, thread, a wooden dowel, a flat iron and also a marking pen which is specially intended for writing on cloth. Having a sewing machine may also be helpful.

Slice the fabric and interfacing and connect them together

Cut two pieces of the fabric with each piece measuring 26 by 8 inches. Position them on the worktop with the right side facing down. Slice 2 interfacing portions with similar measurements as the cloth pieces. Use the flat iron to attach the interfacing using the wrong section of the fabric pieces.

Start stitching at the corner

Place the fabric pieces to make sure that their right sides face one another and the wrong sides are facing outward. Hold them together using a pin. Start stitching at one corner then sew half an inch over the whole fabric piece but leave a gap of 2 inches in the last area. Clip out the added fabric seen outside the seam at the sides.

Edge stitch the whole piece

Invert the cloth to ensure that the right side is out by pushing the right side through the space you left open. Make use of the wooden dowel to push the edges out. Iron the surface so it becomes smooth and flat. Begin edge stitching around the whole piece.

Secure the bottom part by sewing a completed edge

If you want to have the ideal cloth display on the outside and inner fabric be the one in the inside, fold the base section of the piece three or three inches. Flatten the piece using the iron and pin the edges. Secure the lower part and keep it flattened by sewing a completed edge along it.

Customize the size of the pockets

Place the items which you will be putting within the inserts along the panel. Mark the pocket dimensions that you need for each object using the marking pen. Be sure you add a space of one inch for each item for seams and also enough spacing.

Resume sewing

Sew a line beginning at the end of the panel until you get to the upper part of the pocket around the lines you noted. Once you are at the top side of the pocket, make a back stitch. To avoid crumpling the cloth fabric, begin stitching at the innermost portion of the pocket lines.

Accomplish the finishing details

When you get to the final pocket, stitch finish seams on the border. Take out the pins and wash the marker traces.

Once the insert has been washed you can use it for containing the items you regularly keep inside your purse.

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