I’m very excited to share with you the full-length video for my free Baker Street Bag sewing pattern; this video will take you through the entire process of making this bag from start to finish. It’s a great confident-beginner bag and features a recessed zipper!
Download the pattern and templates here: PATTERN – Baker Street Bag
You can find an acrylic template for the Baker Street Bag here – the acrylic template will make cutting out your Main Panels much faster, especially if you are making a lot of Baker Street Bags at once! I used Rose Gold cork fabric to make one of the samples, but you could also make it in quilting cotton, leather, or vinyl!
Total running time: 1 hour 9 minutes
- Attach the Interfacing – 6:00
- Assemble the Lining Pocket – 9:09
- Attach the Zipper Panel – 13:57
- Make the Straps – 36:04
- Finish the Bag – 44:54
Happy sewing and enjoy the video! If you make a Baker Street Bag, be sure to join my Facebook Group and share a photo of your finished bag there!
This was great, loved your instructions, easy and comprehensible. Thank you!
Thanks Leslie, so happy you enjoyed the video!
I like all your videos. Your explain is so easy to understand that I’m very interested in making it. Greetings from me, my name is Diana from Indonesia
Thanks so much! You are so generous!
Thank you Gloria! I want EVERYONE to be a bag lady! 🙂
How about a bag guy? Lol making this for my wife and sister who love bags! What sewing machine do you have? I love the automatic thread cutting after a finished edge. You are an excellent teacher. Thank you.
Bag dude here also no worries!
Thanks for doing this. I have purchased your book, but I haven’t been brave enough to try any of the bags because I am a new sewist. This is perfect for my first attempt. Especially because there’s not a lot of pricey hardware involved if I screw it up. You’re the best. Thanks again!
Thank you Cara! Yep, just a zipper is all the extra stuff that’s needed, no hardware!
Thanks!
Great in depth directions. Ez to follow and understand and see exactly what to do step by step. I was really hoping to see how the rivets were attached. Not a clue how to do that.
I have a video for that! 🙂 https://sewsweetness.com/2017/10/video-use-rivet-press.html
Enjoy! 🙂
Sara, thank you for this wonderful tutorial, I can’t do it at the moment because I am in a motorhome and don’t have a printer, but I am sure will be still on your files when I get home in the spring, for sure I will do it.
Yep, this will be available to you whenever you’re ready! 🙂
Thank you for the free pattern. I’m looking forward to making it in either cork or vinyl
Enjoy, can’t wait to see your finished bag!
Thank you so much Sara. Your video is great and your instructions are crystal clear. You are indeed one generous sweet lady!
Thank you so much Rozana, that means a lot!
Thank you, lovely bag, can’t wait to get started.
Happy sewing!
Hi Sara! Thanks for this great free pattern AND especially the free video! This bag is going to be my first foray into working with leather, I can’t wait to give it a try!!
Enjoy, looking forward to seeing your bag, Pamela!
Excellent pattern. You have explained the steps very clearly, making the construction easy. Thanks for posting!
Thank you Sara, you make it look so easy which it is following you step by,step.
Thank you for the bag pattern. I enjoyed your video….you make it seem so easy!
Happy sewing, Judy!
Watched your brilliant video last night. Today I’ve bought one of your books and I’m going to make a bag. Your instructions are always clear and precise.
Great pattern. If you use cork or vinyl is the bag constructed the same way?
Yes! I did discuss one variation for the straps in the video, if using cork or leather.
Thank you look forward to having a go at making this bag. Happy New Year
Happy New Year Di!
Love this bag video, BUT I can’t find the templates.
Hi Irma! The second paragraph contains the link (blue text). If you can’t find it, feel free to email me at [email protected] and I can send you the pattern in an email. Thank you!
Thank you for the free pattern and the video! I was looking for something to make my granddaughter for her 7th birthday, and I think this is it!! 🙂
Happy early 7th birthday to your granddaughter! My 9-year-old has been using the purple Baker Street Bag with the unicorn – she requested longer straps (about 42″, or WOF) so she can use it as a cross-body bag.
I don’t understand why the zipper is so long. Could you please explain.
Hi Harriet, the long zipper is a design choice – so the bag could be opened wide (since I did not use a separating zipper). Hope this helps!
thanks for the free pattern and video can’t wait to make it
This bag tutorial is the best! I was wondering how to create a bag but didn’t clearly know where to start from. I will follow this tutorial for my GCSE coursework in textiles. Thanks so much <3
Thank you so much for doing this video. I often struggle with the printed directions and your wonderful video and clear instructions was so very helpful. The bag is great!
Hi! Great video by the way….I have a few questions. Where do you order the lovely bar pin with your name on it to insert for your bags? And also, I can find the cork fabric in Canada, but very limited colors and costly! Is there a less expensive source for Canadians? Thank,! Cherry 😉
Hi Cherryl! The bag tag was from Emmaline Bags, and I sell about 80 varieties of the cork fabric right here on my website. I offer flat rate shipping to the US and Canada. Hope this helps!
Hi, I love this bag and am looking forward to watching the video instructions. And what gorgeous unicorn fabric = can you tell us what fabric this is? My son’s girlfriend loves unicorns and wants me to make her a handbag and this looks perfect!
Hi there! The purple fabric was designed by Lizzy House for Andover Fabrics. Hope this helps!
Thank you Sara!
So kind and generous to share the instructions and video. The bag looks wonderful.
Thank you Serita!
I finally finished this purse tonight. It took me a week when I could squeeze time in, but it came out awesome. Easy pattern and awesome instructional video. Looking to make projects with you. Thank you!
Can’t wait to see your finished bag! If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll post it in my Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sewsweetnessfans/
You are an excellent teacher. I was wondering a bag with a recess zipper, but had no idea of how to do. After your clear, concise directions, I am eager to get started. Will be checking all your videos.
Thanks Sara for sharing your bag pattern, I am looking forward to making it. I have never done that kind of zipper , so I am ready to follow your great instructions. Thanks again.
I just purchased your Minikins bundle.
Thank you so much, so happy the video was helpful!
What is the name of the floral fabric you used for the video? Its beautiful! Can’t wait to make the bag – thank you!
Hi Barb! The large floral fabric with the white background is designed by Anna Maria Horner from her Lou Lou Thi fabric line. Thank you!
Hi, Sara! How long is the zipper you used? Thanks
Thank you so much, Roxanne!
Hi Sara. Is the zipper you’re using 12″? It seems longer than the 12″ suggested in materials needed. I’m on that step now. Thanks
Hi Jeannette! I did use a longer zipper since I did not have any 12″ zippers in my stash. I would suggest trimming it from the end where the metal zipper stop is. Thank you!
Hi Sara, Great tutorial. Thank you so much. I have seen the pattern but cannot find the template. Can you help me please? I want to make this bag!
Thank you so much Sara this will be a wonderful start to my bag making experience. I have only made Totes and pouches up to now but with your encouragement on your films l can’t waiit to start.x
Thank you so much for your simple instructions and making bag making possible for a beginner. You are so talented thanks for sharing your gift.
Thank you very much, Brynn!
Thank you for the pattern and video. It makes me want to go to my sewing room and start sewing but hurricane Florence is headed our way and we are preparing for her arrival.
Making my first cork bag with your pattern and video: thanks!
Can’t wait to see your finished bag!
I have just discovered you and your tutorial for the Baker bag on You Tube. It was so comprehensive and clear, and I look forward to making my own bag, and checking out your other patterns. Thank you!
So happy it was helpful! Thank you Esther!
You are an excellent teacher. Keep up the great work. Your video made everything perfectly clear. Of course being a lazy student I did not find the measurements for the zipper tab, zipper panels, and purse side panels until I read you pdf file with the pattern. This is going to be a snap to make, thanks to your expert instructions. Thank you so much and have a Blessed Day. Unfortunately, I do not know how to Instagram, Pinterest, or Facebook. Biscuit Peggy
Can’t wait to see your finished bag, Peggy!
hi sara thank you for the free pattern. I noticed it did not have the side panel or thepart for the zipper I would love to have them as I could not make it without those directions and the pattern for them. you are a great teacher and I hope to learn a lot from you Brenda Henderson [email protected]
Hi Brenda! In my patterns, all squares and rectangles are not represented by pattern pieces. Rather, the measurements for these pieces are called out in the Cutting Instructions for easy rotary cutting. Hope this helps!
Hi Sara, I followed you from Craftsy, thank you for sharing! greetings from buenos aires, argentina
Thank u!
Was a great bag to make made it slightly longer. So good
Sew swaat thanks for making it free
Hi Sara, I have made this bag out of cotton and now i’d like to try the cork version what do you use for thread with cork? thank you Lisa Fortuna!
Hi Lisa! I personally use Aurifil 40wt thread. Thank you!
Hi Sara! I JUST realized that I bought a bag (a few years ago) with this kind of zipper! The zipper on this bag matches the exterior panels, not the interior fabric like yours does. Any suggestions how one would go about doing that? Yes, I am VERY new at bag making! You are saving me from incredible angst! Your videos are A-1!!!
Hi there! If you’d like the zipper panel to be made out of the same fabric as your exterior, you can just cut that from exterior fabric instead of lining fabric. Thank you!
Thanks Sara. What I should have asked is when and how would that be added to the pattern instructions?
Hi there, while you are cutting your fabric at the start, you can just cut all of the Zipper Panel pieces out of exterior fabric (or whatever fabric you would like the zipper panel to be made out of). The lining of the bag would still be in the lining fabric (unless you decide to change that). Thank you!
What a great video! I’ve always wanted to make my own purse but I never buy the foam, etc. I do have some interfacing, i think it’s the one you recommend. Have yo made the bag using only interfacing on both sides instead of foam and interfacing? If so, how did it turn out? (I like floppy bags so it wouldn’t be horrible for me to have a floppy purse, but this might really change the overall appearance of the bag.) Any suggestions/substitutions?
Hi Marisol! Did you mean using Shape Flex on the Exterior and Lining? I personally think the bag needs a little more substance, in order to keep its structure.
Looking at the pattern and wondering how I’m supposed to know the size of the exterior side panel when there’s no template to trace and cut. In the download I only have a template for the main piece
Hi Stacey! In my patterns, there are no pattern pieces for squares/rectangles. All of the measurements for squares/rectangles are called out in the Cutting Instructions for easy rotary cutting. Thank you!
Got it thank you. I hadn’t read all the instructions yet.
Where can I find the supply list? Thank you
Hi Cathy, here are the supplies needed:
-3/4 yard of exterior fabric
-3/4 yard of lining fabric
-1/2 yard of By Annie’s Soft and Stable (Soft and Stable is a 1/8” thick, foam sew-in interfacing; one of my testers also recommends automotive headliner fabric in place of the Soft and Stable; you can also substitute a needled fleece fusible interfacing for the Soft and Stable, such as Pellon #TP971F Thermolam Plus fusible interfacing)
-2-1/2 yards of Pellon SF-101 Shape Flex fusible woven interfacing (or medium-weight fusible interfacing)
-12” zipper
Thank you!
Dear Sara. I loved the way you teach. As soon as I finish my Baker Street bag, I’ll post a picture. With love, Amélia, from Brazil.
Thank you so very much, Amélia!
I made one of these for my Mother-in-Law as a Christmas gift from some custom made fabric I had done. I have actually made 3 of these bags, and getting ready to make myself one. I see I commented back on June 2020 which was one I was making for a friends birthday. Then I made one for my Mother, but I enlarged it so it was about twice the size of the original bag, she loves those hold everything but the kitchen sink sized bags…LOL….It’s an easy bag to assemble, I just used the tutorial on it, not the video. I’d love to be able to post pictures for everyone to see, is there a place I can do that?
HI Stacey Lee! If you use Facebook, you can post photos of your Sew Sweetness makes in our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sewsweetnessfans Thank you!
Thanks so much! You are so generous!
Thanks of Uruguay.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video and have the pattern. I also learned how to attached a zipper inside the top opening and I’m never too old to learn new things. Thank you Sara best regards from Robyn in Sydney Australia