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Canvas Bag Making with Leather and Rivets: A Crash Course in Materials
With some basic sewing skills and a sense of adventure, it’s totally possible to create durable, professional-quality bags at home, without industrial equipment. In this workshop replay, Ellie teaches waxed...
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Bag Making for Beginners: Start Here
Calling all bag making newbies! Novice sewists! Hardware hesitant! Bag-curious folks! Here’s where to start, and what you actually need to make your first bag.
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Introducing Cobalt
Today we're introducing a new color of waxed canvas to our collection: COBALT! But the cobalt fun doesn't stop there. We've also added cobalt waxed canvas as an option on ALL...
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Free Project! Waxed Canvas Lunch Sack
Gather up all the scraps from your waxed canvas yardage—we’ve got a project to put them to use! This handy lunch sack is just a tad bit bigger than the...
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How to Clean Wax Off Your Sewing Machine
Waxed canvas is a mid-weight cotton fabric that has been saturated with wax. When sewing, the teeth of the feed dogs scrape a little bit of wax off the fabric...
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Color Inspo: Navy, Burgundy, Slate Blue
Today we are launching three new colors of waxed canvas yardage: burgundy, slate blue, and navy! This is the same, premium-quality waxed canvas that comes pre-cut in our full maker kits—now available...
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Color Inspo: Marigold, Berry, Natural
Today we are launching three new colors of waxed canvas yardage: marigold, berry, and natural, along with our much-asked-for natural canvas lining fabric! This is the...
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Color Inspo: Field Tan + Dark Brown
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Field tan and dark brown are two of our new waxed canvas colors—now available by the yard! These earthy neutrals feel timeless and elemental, for a bag that would...
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Color Inspo: Spring Green + Moss
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spring green and moss are two of our new waxed canvas colors—now available by the yard! These greens are lush and full of life, just like the landscape here...
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Essential Guide to Waxed Canvas
Fabric for practicality If you’ve ever made a bag from a Klum House kit, you know that we are big fans of waxed canvas around here. Waxed canvas is our...