Painted and Beaded Tote Bag

Steps:

1. Place completed painted and sealed hand on to felt piece. Just judge it by eye it until you get a pleasing placement and stitch by machine onto the felt.

2. Stitch binding around the edges of the felt. Use any interesting stitch that's on your sewing machine.

3. Chose beads and charms, and stitch them around the felt edge--one or all sides.
4. Stitch with a decorative stitch around the top of the small tote bag to add visual interest. The contrast of the gold thread against the black bag adds another visual element to the small bag.

5. Carefully stitch the completed hand and felt design on to the tote bag. You may do so by machine or by hand. Janet does the top and bottom of the design on a machine and then does the sides by hand.

6. If you want, add more beads and charms on the black bag itself.

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