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  Topic Name: Bought my first sewing machine, now what‽ on: April 27, 2020, 12:18:48 PM
Couloirman


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« on: April 27, 2020, 12:18:48 PM »

Just bought my first sewing machine (1951 Singer 201-2) and excited to play around!

Interested in bag making. What are your favorite online stores/sources of zippers, fabric, etc... common to bikepacking bag making? What's your favorite material to make bags out of?

Thanks for any help you can give!

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  Topic Name: Bought my first sewing machine, now what‽ Reply #1 on: April 27, 2020, 06:23:06 PM
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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2020, 06:23:06 PM »

For materials, it depends where you live. If in the US there are a few companies like Seattle Fabrics. I'm in Australia and I use https://www.extremtextil.de/en/, shipping is very expensive so buy a decent quantity. For a more budget option, you can go dumpster diving at any large outdoors store, they're always throwing out returned or damaged goods, and you can get endless material supplies that way (plus perfectly good outdoors equipment). That's been a goldmine for me.

For materials and ideas, there's loads of info on these forums, scan through an all your questions will be answered:)

This is an easy place to start with bag making, never used it myself but lots of good resources here:
https://www.learnmyog.com/index.html

happy sewing, it's amazing and very addictive!
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  Topic Name: Bought my first sewing machine, now what‽ Reply #2 on: April 28, 2020, 07:57:28 AM
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2020, 07:57:28 AM »

Awesome. Thanks for both of those links!
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