Gorgeous, expensive designer handbags made with beautiful fabrics are everywhere. Now sewers with beginner skills can learn how to make their own designer handbags with basic supplies and a sewing machine! No need to pay high prices at those fancy boutiques. In this class, sewing expert Nancy Green shows you step by step how to make a stunning, spacious batik handbag with many pockets. Her original purse design, included with the class, gives you options for a solid or pieced fabric bag front and back, interior and exterior pockets, long or short straps, and a tall or short bag. You’ll love all the options you get in this class. This video DVD teaches how to perfectly measure and cut fabric pieces, create a pieced front and back, create a button loop closure, insert a magnetic clasp, create outside lined pockets, sew an inside lining with pockets, add tucks to create bag shaping, add bag ties and straps, and use fusible materials including fleece, heavy-weight stabilizer, and extra-firm stabilizer to give your bag shape that will last for years. Beginner sewers who can thread their machine and sew a straight line will be able to successfully complete this class. The DVD is both PC and MAC compatible and can also be played on Region 1 DVD players.