Custom Sidebag // 4 Hour Bag Design
♻️ Want to design your own stuff but not sure if the accessories world is for you? This workshop puts you in the aesthetic drivers seat without the stress of construction.
👜 No prior skills required! Learn key sewing techniques to transform waste into your own beautiful curated bag.
🌎 We'll run your masterpiece through our industrial manufacturing process to turn it into a clean and crisp bag.
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♻️ Want to design your own stuff but not sure if the accessories world is for you? This workshop puts you in the aesthetic drivers seat without the stress of construction.
👜 No prior skills required! Learn key sewing techniques to transform waste into your own beautiful curated bag.
🌎 We'll run your masterpiece through our industrial manufacturing process to turn it into a clean and crisp bag.
Date
♻️ Want to design your own stuff but not sure if the accessories world is for you? This workshop puts you in the aesthetic drivers seat without the stress of construction.
👜 No prior skills required! Learn key sewing techniques to transform waste into your own beautiful curated bag.
🌎 We'll run your masterpiece through our industrial manufacturing process to turn it into a clean and crisp bag.
Date
Custom Sidebag // 4 Hour Bag Design
Ever wanted to design your own clothes or accessories? This bag curating workshop puts you in the aesthetic drivers seat without the nuts, bolts and stress of bag construction. Learn key sewing techniques to transform waste into your own beautiful curated canvas. Then we'll run your masterpiece through our industrial manufacturing process to turn it into a clean and crisp bag.
💚 6 Reasons to Join
Whether you're curious about sewing, wanting to repair your own clothes or just want to own a sick as bag you designed yourself, this jam-packed 4 hour session is tailored to your upcycling desires so you can learn practical new skills without marathon YouTube sessions...
- Learn to sew & upcycle
- Learn 3 textile repair techniques
- Reverse appliqué
- DIY patches
- Machine repair/embroidery - Wear a bag your designed yourself
- Meet other like-minded sewing upcyclers
- Gain a hobby that aligns your craft with your values
- Spend ya Saturday sippin' latte's with your best bud
Got more questions? Check out the FAQ's below...
Design and build a canvas of curated waste materials to create the aesthetic and style of your own Sidebag. This jam-packed workshop teaches your a handfull a practical skills through creative reuse of busted materials.
- Class runs 10.30am-3.00pm Saturday
- One 4 hours class
- No prior sewing skills required
- We have an abundance of waste here but BYO waste material is welcomed
- Each student will have their own sewing machine to practice on (you're welcome to BYO machine)
♻️ Waste Materials
We have a LOT of overlooked materials here at the studio. If you have a particular material you would like to upcycle, please bring it in! We love exploring new materials. Otherwise, we have an abundance of banners, denim, sleeping bags, upholstery fabric, tarps, workwear and other random goodies here. Note: if you would like to use soft plastic in your design, you can create your own at home with our online tutorial and bring it into class (you won't need this material until week 2).
Included in the $220 ticket is four hours of in-person workshop hours, valued at $180, plus the production of your epic new bag, valued at $140-$220.
A total value of $400 for $220.
Bonus point if you've read this far, use code 'HEARTUPCYCLING' for 10% off
We offer a refund policy up until 7 days prior to the semester starting. If the cancellation is within this 7 day window, we will release the ticket and refund your amount pending it's resale. No refunds will be processed once the semester has started. To see if the classes are right for you, try our one-off 3 hour Pants Into Carry Class! :)
Sidebag Workshop FAQ
Nope! We kick class off with some fun and practical textile skills and repair techniques before diving into the waste curating process!
On the day you can choose from Into Carry’s shoulder bags:
- ‘Min Sidebag’ (small shoulder bag)
- ‘Sidebag’ (medium shoulder bag)
Working with wasted materials is creative in itself. We don't need elaborate ideas to make high quality bags. We just need a sewing machine and a few hours of time :)
Bonus sewing tip: You can cut two pieces of material with one pair of scissors.
Adaption to context: Sign up to the course with your friend you can't see and save $60 when you book together using the code "BESTBUDS" at checkout.
First, congratulations on starting all those projects. Second, the best part of this workshop is you don't even need to finish! We make the bag for you. You just get to do all the fun designing and curating, then we do the hard yakka and send you the bag the following week. So you can say FO to UFO's.
I recently learnt what a UFO is so it's only fair to share... it stands for UnFinished Object and is a 100% normal symptom of getting really excited about the potential of overlooked materials. But fear not, we will each finish the course with FO's.
Great question. The answer is: Only if you want it to.
We can intentionally make trashy bags but we can just as easily make crisp, sharp, super sexy-looking masterpieces. Without any prior skills of fancy knick nacks.
It can be nice to upcycle something with sentimental value, so if you have an old garment that you want to rebirth into carry then absolutely, bring it along!
Alternatively, we have soooo much material here for you to get creative with. There is a whole range of weird, wacky, wonderful waste, ready for you to start exploring and upcycling.
Each course is run from our space in Collingwood, Melbourne/Naarm. There is free parking after 6.30pm on most surrounding streets, otherwise the Tram along Smith St stops at Peel St is a couple hundred meters away.
Address is: 2A Robert St, Collingwood, VIC 3066
Time: 10.30am-3.00pm
Too easy, shoot Luke an email at luke@intocarry.co and we will get back to you asap.
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