Ready to sew up your project? Let us walk you through the straight stitch sewing up technique, useful when sewing up bags. Start off by laying your knitted piece flat. This example is from sewing up the Tender Loving Clutch bag.

Next up: line up the edges that will be sewn together. As this example is from making a knitted bag, we will be folding our piece over.

Tread a sewing needle with a strand of yarn, in this case we’ve used our Jersey Be Good yarn in a pink contrast colour, just to make it a bit easier for you guys to spot it.

Now, secure the yarn to the wrong side of the fabric. We pulled the yarn through a horizontal ‘tab’ twice, leaving 5-7cm of yarn.

Bring the yarn to the right i.e. outer side of the fabric, just inside the loops of the first edge stitch.

Insert the needle into the next stitch along the edge, going through both layers of the fabric (we recommend watching the video for this).

Pull the yarn through.

Continue in this way for the rest of the edge. You should now start seeing vertical tabs on both sides of your fabric, securing your project. When you get to the end of area that you’re sewing up, we recommend making an extra stitch at the top just to secure the edge. And that’s it! Well done, you’re now close to wearing your finished knitted bag!