There so many ways to create wealth from the sewing machine. The options are so diversified you'll be surprised.
If you love to sew, you're in the right place because we are going to explore the many products that come off the sewing machine. All you need do is pick your choice & start making money.

1. Bag making
2. Toys manufacturing
3. Curtains & Drapes
4. Underwear & Lingerie
5. Scarves
6. Caps & Hats
7. Designer Pillows
8. Baby Products-Bibs, booties, bumper set etc
9. Children Clothes
10.Rugs
11.Baby boots
12.Shoes
13.Uniforms for schools, organisations
14.Scrunchies
15.Camp Beds
16.Sleeping Bags
17.Slip Covers
18.Table Clothes, Napkins
19.Tent covers, car covers etc

The list goes on.

The first one we are learning is:
How To Make Different Sovenir Bags & Purses like the pictures below

To make the blue souvenir bag, you'll need:

1. Any bag material of your choice
2. A patterned material for the middle panel
3. 21/2 yards 1“ Belt for handles
4. Matching thread

Procedure

There are different bag sizes so the measurements can be altered.
1. From your bag material, cut 2 rectangles measuring 14“x12“. One piece is for the front while the other is for the back. 14“ is the width while 12“ is the length

2. Cut one long strip measuring 5“ x 40“ from the patterned material. This will form the middle panel.

3. Cut 2 pieces of handles from your 1“ belt measuring 26“ each.

Making Of The Bag

1.Thread your machine with matching thread colour
2. Fold half inch in at the top of your front & back pieces & hem
3. Hem the two ends of your middle panel. Note that you are using only one panel strip for your bag.
4. Sew one handle each to the front & back pieces at a convenient positions on the front & back pieces.
5. With the remaining belt, cover the ends of the handles on the front & back pieces with another belt piece & sew on to the pieces.
6. Sew the front piece & middle panel together, using the middle panel to cover the raw edges of the front piece. The middle panel runs through the two sides & bottom of the front piece.
7. Sew the back piece to the other side of the middle panel just like you've done with the front piece.

Voila! You're done. You've just made a new sewing machine creation to use by yourself or sell.

So many clients are out there needing someone to make these bags in large numbers for their coming events or company promotions. You're in for a new money-making venture.

Post pictures of your work here for us to enjoy together.

We'll continue shortly.

Op, please where do u base?

Hi, Chizin. Here's our address: Suite 15, Olabo Shopping Complex, 5th Avenue, Gowon Estate, Egbeda. Lagos.

Good day everyone following this thread.
How many students in class today?
Can you introduce yourselves?

How many of you have been able to sew your own bag from the last class?
Where are your pictures?
Submit for assessment!

Some clarifications here:

The bag we made in our last class has nothing to do with gum o! Some of you who have heard or had the experience of ankara bags, where they use gum should not confuse that with what we're doing here!
This is a sewing class and those of you who can't sew should go & learn how to sew & get a sewing machine immediately. Is that understood? Good!


Okay. To today's tutorial.

Today, we are going to make a very beautiful & special throw pillow called PETAL PILLOW.
We may still sew some more bags later but I need to get my pictures ready so you guys can see & understand the steps involved.

Here we go:

How To Make A Petal Pillow

Size: About 16" in diameter.
Materials: Scraps of printed cotton fabric(we used 8 different small floral print for petals and a solid colour in centre)
18" square cotton print for backing
Polyester fiberfill stuffing
1/2 yard 36" wide unbleached muslin for liner
Matching sewing thread.
Procedure
Enlarge patterns. Cut out, adding 1/2" seam allowance all around to both pieces. Following broken lines on petal pattern, cut a pattern for petal lining, adding 1/2" seam allowance. Cut two petals of each print if using 8 different prints, or cut 16 petals as desired. Cut a 5 3/4" diameter solid colour fabric circle for centre. From muslin cut 16 petal linings and one 5" diameter circle lining. From print cut backing piece.
Run a basting thread around a petal seam, drawing up thread until piece is same size as a lining piece. With wrong sides together stitch petal to lining, leaving 2" opening for stuffing. Stuff softly so that printed side puffs up and lining is flat. Stitch opening closed on all petals. Make 15 more petals and centre circle in same manner.
With right sides facing, stitch 2 petals together along adjacent long sides. Stitch 3rd petal to 2nd, then 4th to 3rd and so on until 16 petals are joined. Stitch remaining edge of 16th petal 1st to form ring. Stitch ring to centre circle. Trim seams.
With right sides facing, stitch backing to pillow front, leaving opening for turning. Turn and stuff. Blindstitch opening.

ok.

Hi, everyone. Hope you're trying your hands on the tutorials we've had so far? I'm yet to see any picture of your works here though.

Today, we're looking at how to make handmade centre rugs. Here are some examples of my personal works. Some of them I've sold out.

Let's look at how to make the Circle-pleated Rug. It's very simple to make & here we completed it with matching designer pillows. We used two colours here. Brown & Cream.

Materials
1. 1 or 2 yards tapaulin material for backing. It's also called flex.
2. 10 to 12 yards of any fabric of your choice.
3. Matching thread.

Procedure

1. Cut a circle as large as you want your rug to be from your tapaulin or flex material. You should fold your flex into four & mark an arch from the centre point & cut out your circle.
2. With a pencil, draw circles of lines on the circle backing. Your circles should be spaced 1 inch apart. These lines will guide you when stitching your fabric strips to your backing material later.
3. Cut your fabric into long strips 4 inches wide. Your strips can be as long as possible.
4. Fold your fabric strips into two length-wise and press.
5. Pleat or gather your fabric strips on your sewing machine.
6. Overlock or whip the raw edges of your pleated or gathered fabric strips to neaten them.
7. Hem or bind the edge of your circle backing material.
8. Beginning from the outermost circle pencil marking, stitch your pleated fabric strip to your backing material. Overlap fabric strips neatly on each other while stitching to hide the ends of the strips.
9. Sew your fabric strip to the innermost circle next & continue to alternate between outermost & innermost as you work until you've stitched the last circle.
10. Make a rossette & stitch to the centre to cover the innermost circle.
11. Your rug is done.

Enjoy your new rug in any room.

Make your rug & post the picture for us all to see & enjoy. You can use plain or patterned fabric & combine as you please.

Hello OP I really appreciate the effort u r puttin in here. The list of what u will be teaching is really making me want to be glued to this thread. I'm new here and I've been taking sewing lessons for the last 6months and so I'm really interested. Please can u tell. US where u get most of ur materials from, the cost of them, how we can identify dem in the market by postin. Pictures of dem, cos I don't stay in lag. Thanks

Am completely interested. God bless u uncountably and give u d strength to continue moving on. You are an angel

To answer your query, elsy5, though you didn't state which of the projects we've covered so far you need materials names & prices for, I'm assuming you're referring to the first one, which is our souvenir bag. I'm giving a list of some bag materials with their current prices. We normally buy bag materials here in Lagos at Mushin market.
I'll post some pictures too, showing some bag materials & accessories.

Bag Accessories.

Velcro- Used as closure for bags. Comes in different widths. 1“ width sold at N12/yard & N1200 for a roll of 100 yards. Black is cheaper. N10/yd & N800 or N900/roll.

Magnetic Snap- Used as closure. Around N150/dozen

Zip Head- used together with zip cloth as closure. Price per doz depends on the size you're buying. Size 5 is N50/doz

Zip Cloth- used together with zip head as closure. Price/yd depends on size. Size 5 is N12/yd

Adjuster- Used to adjust or vary the length of bag handles. Price/doz depends on size. 1” adjuster is sold for around N50/doz

Rings- used together with hooks to attach handles to bags

Belt- used as ready-made handles for bags especially souvenir bags. They come in different widths. 1” belt is N12/yd. Black is around N10/yd

Taping- used to bind raw edges of bags to neaten them. Around N10/yd.

Eyelet/Grommet- used to make neat/decorative holes on bags. They come in different sizes

Rivet- a short metal pin with a flat head used to fasten flat pieces of bag parts together.

Bag feet- attached to the bottom of bags so the bag doesn't sit directly on the floor.

Buckle- a metal or plastic attached to one end of a belt or strap to fasten it.

Piping- a plastic or other substance made in the shape of a pipe or tube & sewn around bags or bag parts to enhance the shape.

Key holder- attached to zip heads to be used as handles for small bags or purses.

Ready-made Handles- sewn directly on bags. No cutting & sewing necessary.

The first picture is a display of some Bag accessories. The wine colour roll is 1” belt. On top of it is 1” plastic adjusters. The pink roll behind it is piping. The black 2“ accessory to the right of the piping is velcro. The pile of black & blue accessory next to it is zip cloth. We also have eyelet, rivets, zip heads, rings, buckle and decorative bag closures on the table.

The next picture is a display of various leather bag materials. Most of them are sold for N450/yd

The 3rd picture contains 2 colors of plain taffeta bag material. They're sold for N230/yd.

Our next tutorial is on toys.

Pup, Bunny & Bear Cuddlers

Size: About 10“ from head to toe.

Materials:
* For each toy: 3/8 yard 45“ wide animal skin fabric.
* Scraps of pink velour for bunny's tummy
* Scraps of felt for eyes, nose, teeth(bunny) and tongue
* Matching sewing thread
* Embrodery floss(black) for mouth
* 1/2 yard satin ribbon
* Polyester fiberfill stuffing
* (Optiona)Small bell
* Fabric glue

Patterns:
Transfer patterns to tracing paper & cut out, adding 1/2” to all edges for seam allowance. Do not add to felt pieces.
For head, follow solid line for pup & bear & broken line for bunny.
Cut out fabric pieces. Also cut 3" diameter animal skin fabric circle for muzzle and for bear's & bunny tail.

Stitching
Turn under seam allowance and applique tummy to front.
Sew running stitches around bunny's & bear's tail pieces 1/4” from edge, draw up to form pouch, stuff, and sew to body back.
For pup's tail, stitch pieces together, right sides facing, leaving straight end to body back.
Turn under 1/4“ around muzzle & applique to face, stuffing as you go.
Stack & glue eye pieces together.
Embroider white French knot to centre. Glue eyes to face. Following photograph for placement, applique nose to muzzle and embroider mouth in outline stitch.
Glue tongue to bear & pup; cut two 1/2” square white felt teeth & glue to bunny.
For bear's & pup's ears, stitch matching ear pieces together, leaving edge X open. For bunny's ears stitch fronts to backs, leaving edge X open, then pleat edge X slightly on ear front. Turn all ears & pad lightly. Place ears on body front, matching raw edges to raw edges of head between dots for bear, X's for bunny, and Z's for pup & pin. Stitch body pieces together, ears sandwiched between, leaving opening on one side. Turn & stuff. Close opening. Tie bow around neck & sew on bell if desired.

Hello, my people on this thread. Where are the pictures of your works? Are you really following?

hello friend, i like your trend and have been following . if you have wasapp group on this hand works. pls add me on 08138929828

Would love to try out d rug n d pillow but I still don't get the rug explanation well enough and am also waiting to get d filling for d pillow. thnx thnx

abisolaarshow:
Would love to try out d rug n d pillow but I still don't get the rug explanation well enough and am also waiting to get d filling for d pillow. thnx thnx

I will post some pictorial explanations & materials soon so you can understand better.
As for waiting to get filling for the pillow, we've not taught how to make pillow yet. Thanks

FirstS2B:


I will post some pictorial explanations & materials soon so you can understand better.
As for waiting to get filling for the pillow, we've not taught how to make pillow yet. Thanks

oh thanks d pics would b great. But am talking about d petal pillow tutorial u gave previously

abisolaarshow:

oh thanks d pics would b great. But am talking about d petal pillow tutorial u gave previously

Alright. I quite understand you better. You can get your fiber for stuffing your pillow at Mushin if you stay in Lagos. Wherever you stay, just enquire for where to buy it so you can quickly complete that project & move forward. Thanks.

FirstS2B:

Alright. I quite understand you better. You can get your fiber for stuffing your pillow at Mushin if you stay in Lagos. Wherever you stay, just enquire for where to buy it so you can quickly complete that project & move forward. Thanks.

wow. really . where exactly in Mushin is it close to Ojuwoye marjet. I'll b going there today. how much of it would b enough. Thanks thnx

It's on the opposite side of Ojuwoye market. Just ask for where they sell foam or Ladipo Street. You can drop anywhere from AP bus stop. But definitely not d same side with Ojuwoye.

FirstS2B:

I will post some pictorial explanations & materials soon so you can understand better.
As for waiting to get filling for the pillow, we've not taught how to make pillow yet. Thanks

As promised, I'm posting pictorial explanations of how to make the circle-pleated rug posted earlier.
I hope it will clear any challenge anyone might have in making theirs.

The materials & steps involved in making our rug.

The materials & steps involved in making our rug.

The remaining steps...........

Materials needed are

1. Tapaulin used as backing
2. Fabric cut in 4" wide strips as long as possible
3. Matching thread
4. Sewing machine
5. Scissors

Fold the tapaulin into 4 & cut out circle as big as you want your rug to be

Mark circle lines on your tapaulin to guide you in stitching your pleated or gathered fabric to your backing material(tapaulin)

Sew your pleated & overlocked fabric onto the backing

You can use plain or patterned fabric or a combination.
All these steps are shown in the pictures above.

The first person to post the photo of his/her finished rug may get a surprise gift.
Let's see who wins!
@abisolaarshow, I hope this helps!

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope we're working on our projects? We're looking to see who finishes & posts first. Happy sewing & nice week ahead.

hi house. just saw dis tread. welldone op

noncy21:
hi house. just saw dis tread. welldone op

You're welcome on board, noncy21 Get your materials & join us.

FirstS2B:

You're welcome on board, noncy21
Get your materials & join us.

tnx ma. pls can i get.those materials in a tailoring materials shop ?

noncy21:
tnx ma. pls can i get.those materials in a tailoring materials shop ?

Well, you didn't specify which of the projects you want to do because we've covered at least three different ones already. But most of the materials you'll get from Mushin.

FirstS2B:

Well, you didn't specify which of the projects you want to do because we've covered at least three different ones already. But most of the materials you'll get from Mushin.

materials for d souvenir. mushin is far from me and i cant go their now cos of d nature of my work. tnx

@abisolaarshow, I hope this helps![/quote]

yes it helped greatly thmx alot . I'll try this even if i can't get tapauline soon