DIY : SUPER EASY MAKEUP POUCH MADE FROM A MESH TABLE CLOTH

I had these super bright table cloths at home and I wanted to test if I could make a travel makeup bag with them. I liked the end result SO MUCH, I decided to film it. I will post a video on Reels soon as a visual guide but I wanted to break down the process here on the blog, in case you want the step by step explained a little better.

These table cloths are made from a plastic mesh fabric, (same exact fabric they sell in Mexico for bags that you take to the market), which I love because they are so durable. You obviously can use any fabric you want, but if you want to use the same fabric, I suggest looking for “Mexican market mesh bags” on Amazon and you will find a ton of colours and prints

This is such a cool, easy project and I initially made this as a potentially makeup bag for when I travel but I gotta be honest, I already worn it as a clutch twice this week and I love it.

STEP 1

STEP 2

Make sure you pin it on the inner side of your fabric. I find that pinning the zipper and doing a very rough stitch with a needle and thread is the easiest way to keep the zipper in place for when you have to finish it on the sewing machine (example on the images below).

NOTE: Because my piece of mesh fabric was from a table cloth, it already had bias tape stitched all around it. If you get this type of fabric from scratch, I recommend you also stitching the bias tape all around the rectangle of fabric, to prevent the mesh from unraveling. If you are using normal fabric, maybe do a zig zag stitch to all the edges if you don’t have an overlock machine.

The plastic zipper that I bought can be fully opened (it doesn’t lock at the end), so that made it easier to separate the two sides and stitch it on each end separately. Once you have stitched the zipper to both sides of the bag, you can move on to preparing your trim, which is what will go on both of the top edges of the bag and will make it look more polished and give it a better finish.

STEP 3

I cut 4 small pieces of purple bias tape do stitch to all 4 ends of the thick purple trim. I really didn’t want the end of the trim to ravel and I thought that stitching bias tape would definitely fo the trick to prevent the trip from raveling.

STEP 4

Once I had the bias tape stitched to all 4 ends, I pinned it on the outer part of the pouch and proceeded to sew it. I did one stitch closer to the top edge and another stitch closer to the bottom edge to make sure it was secured in place.

STEP 5

IMPORTANT: Before I started to pin the sides of the bag in order to stitch them, I opened the zipper to make sure I was going to be able to flip the bag inside out at the end.

I forgot to take a photo turning the bag inside out but I thought it was quite self explanatory. Once you finish sewing both sides, just flip the bag to the right side and VOILA!

Hope you guys liked this easy tutorial and let me know if you try it out at home!