# Slides 5.11: Build the Drawstring Bag, and the Stitch Sampler Check Slide outline for Lesson 5.11, three days, eighteen slides. Slides 1 to 7 are Day 1 (cut, mark, pin, first seam). Slides 8 to 12 are Day 2 (second seam, the channel, the sampler scrap). Slides 13 to 18 are Day 3 (turn, cord, finish, and the check). The hand path is named on every work slide so the hand station never waits for an instruction. ## Slide 1 (Day 1): The build - Lesson 5.11, day one of three - A drawstring bag: cut to a pattern, machine seams, turned right side out, a channel, a cord - Hand station: the felt pouch, hand backstitched, same checklist, same rubric - Machines are threaded. I did it this morning. Today we sew. Image: a finished drawstring bag, closed, next to a finished felt pouch. ## Slide 2: Do now - What will you put in your bag? - Write the order: cut, mark, pin, sew - What happens if you swap the first two? Image: the bag pattern from Handout 05.11. ## Slide 3: Three things wrong with this one - Pass the bad bag around - Write down three things wrong with it - Your checklist today is exactly that list Image: the deliberately bad bag: wandering seam, unlocked seam end, channel sewn shut at one end. ## Slide 4: The pattern, one more time - The seam allowance is a quarter inch; the needle plate has a guide line for it - Right sides TOGETHER, inside out, because this bag gets turned - The side seams STOP at the channel marks. The gap is not a mistake, it is the door the cord comes through. Image: the pattern with the fold line, seam lines, and the shaded channel area labeled LEAVE OPEN HERE. ## Slide 5: Pins and machines - Pins perpendicular to the seam, heads out - Every pin comes OUT before it reaches the foot - You never sew over a pin: a needle that hits a pin breaks - And a broken needle is handed to me, both pieces, flat on your palm Image: a pinned seam approaching a presser foot, a hand pulling the nearest pin. ## Slide 6: The first seam - Edge on the quarter-inch guide - Three or four reverse stitches at the start - Slowest steady speed, hands to the sides, eyes just ahead of the needle - Stop at the channel mark, reverse three or four, done Image: a seam being sewn with the reverse lever circled. ## Slide 7 (Day 1 close): Count and close down - Pins counted, "N pins in work" in the notes column - Presser foot down, power off, chair in - Exit line: what does the reverse lever do, and where did you use it? Image: the count sheet's notes column reading "6 pins in work." ## Slide 8 (Day 2): Do now - Needle down, foot up, pivot, foot down - Where in today's sewing will you actually use that? Image: the channel fold pinned around a bag top. ## Slide 9: Threading, for real this time - Licensed threaders: thread your machine from nothing, buddy verifies - Not licensed yet: I thread yours, and we finish your license this week - The manual at your machine is still the authority Image: the license line with two initials. ## Slide 10: The channel - Fold the top edge down one inch toward the wrong side, all the way around - Pin every two inches, one pass at my iron - Sew along the bottom of the fold - BOTH ENDS STAY OPEN. Both ends stay open. Image: a channel seam circling a bag top with open gaps at both side seams, arrows pointing at the gaps. ## Slide 11: The sampler scrap - Last four minutes: two scraps, one short seam, reverse-locked both ends - Name on it in chalk - This is Box 6 of your sampler card, sewn today so Thursday has time to score it Image: the sampler card's Box 6, MACHINE SEAM. ## Slide 12 (Day 2 close): Count and close down - Count, notes column, close-down routine - Exit card: how many seams done, and the one thing that gave you trouble Image: a row of machines, presser feet down. ## Slide 13 (Day 3): Do now - What still has to happen for your bag to be finished, and how long will it take? - List the six things that go on your sampler card Image: the six-box sampler card, empty. ## Slide 14: Turn, cord, finish - Turn through the top; corners out with an eraser or a chopstick, never the shears - Safety pin on the cord, feed the channel, knot the ends, pull: it closes - Trim every thread end; three hand stitches close any gap Image: a bag half turned right side out, and a safety pin leading a cord into a channel. ## Slide 15: The five-point self-check - Cut to the pattern - Seam on the line, both ends locked - Even stitches - Flat, not puckered - Corners and ends closed Image: the checklist from Handout 05.11, Part 4. ## Slide 16: Mount the sampler - Six boxes: running stitch, backstitch, whipstitch, button, repair, machine seam - Hand path: Box 6 is your best hand backstitch seam, labeled HAND PATH - Label every box, run the self-check on each Image: a finished sampler card, six boxes filled. ## Slide 17: The check, out loud - Minute 20: machines closed down, tables cleared - I score at your table, about 40 seconds each, out loud, so you hear the why - The bag on the 20-point item rubric, the card on the 28-point check Image: the scoring grid from Assessment 05.2. ## Slide 18 (Day 3 close): The reflection - Back of the card, three lines: best at, would redo, can now make or fix - Three read aloud at the bell - Cards to the FACS folder. Bags go home. You built that. Image: a hand pulling a drawstring bag closed.