Luxy Laptop Bag

Luxy Laptop Bag

The Luxy Laptop Bag is your everyday companion for work, school or business meetings. It can carry your laptop up to 14”, folders, notes and still keeps a slim appearance. Its clean lines on the outside gives the Luxy Laptop Bag a modern look. Let heads turn when you enter your workspace carrying the Luxy Laptop Bag!

Highlights of the Pattern

The bag has a zipper pocket on the front for easy access to your cell phone or keys. On the back there is an edge to edge slip pocket with magnetic closure. On the top is a zipper closure to safely keep your belongings.

There are two easy to grab rolled handles to carry the bag by the hand. There’s also an adjustable shoulder strap to carry on your shoulder and keep your hands free.

Inside is a large padded pocket for your laptop, with an additional divided slip pocket on top. On the other side you find a zipper pocket, passport pocket and two card pockets.

The bag has bound seams using the "No Fail Binding Method".

Dimensions

The finished dimensions of the Luxy Laptop Bag are approximately:

W 14 ½” (37 cm)

H 10 ½” (27 cm)

D 3 ½” (9 cm)

Sewing Level

Sewing level is rated as intermediate.

Recommended Fabrics

The exterior of the Luxy Laptop Bag can be made from vinyl or leather. For the lining you can choose Water Proof Canvas (WPC) or quilting cotton interfaced with woven interfacing. To give the bag the needed structure, all exterior pieces will be stabilized with foam.

Files

With your purchase you will receive the following files:

1 PDF file with instructions

1 PDF file with pattern pieces to print at home (letter and A4)

1 PDF file with pattern pieces to use with a projector

1 ZIP file with SVG files for a few pattern pieces to use with a Cricut cutting machine

Disclaimer

I encourage you to make as many bags as you wish to sell, however this pattern may not be used for mass production. When posting on your social media, a reference to KC original would be appreciated. Please do not sell or distribute this PDF pattern.

YouTube

If you are a visual learner there are two YouTube videos for you to watch: one for use of vinyl and one for use of leather.

The video for use of vinyl is made by Danielle St John of Stitch’N Designs.

https://youtu.be/RsQAMvI3RBk?si=pqIU1B1Vh_d5w3Cp

The video for use of leather is made by Judy Eubanks Flores of Judy’s Lone Star Shop.

https://youtu.be/P0xni7nU1nM

Materials

Exterior (choose vinyl or leather):

• Vinyl: 29 ½” x 59” (75 x 150 cm)
• Leather 3 oz (1.2 mm)¹ : 12 sq ft

Lining:

• Quilting cotton or other light weight fabric: 39 ½” x 55” (100 x 140 cm)

Interfacing lining (no need for WPC):

• Woven interfacing (Vilene G700 or SF101): 39 ½” x 55” (100 x 140 cm)

Stabilizer:

• Foam (Soft and Stable or 2 mm Eva foam): 31 ½” x 20” (80 x 50 cm)
• Fleece (Vilene H630 or Pellon Fusible Fleece): 17 ¼” x 10 ¾” (44 x 27.5 cm)
• Rope ¼” (6 mm) diameter: 2x 14” (35.5 cm) long
• Nylon tape of 3/8” (1 cm) wide²: 13” (33 cm) long
• Nylon tape of ¾” (2 cm) wide²: 120” (3 m) long

Hardware:

• Logo badge (optional): 1x
• 1” D-ring: 2x
• 1” Triglide slider: 1x
• 1” Swivel hook: 2x
• 1” Strap end: 2x
• Rivet on magnetic snap closure 18 mm: 2x
• Double cap rivets (variety of post lengths, depending on your choice of materials): 4x
• Chicago screws with a post length of 3 or 4 mm (depending on your choice of materials): 12x

Zippers:

• #5 Zipper tape: 2x 10 ½” (27 cm) long and 1x 20 3/8” (52 cm) long
• #5 Zipper pull: 4x

Notions and Tools

• basic sewing tools and sewing machine
• teflon foot or walking foot, teflon (narrow) zipper foot if working with vinyl or leather
• universal needles or leather needles #16 or #18 (size 100 or 110) depending on your chosen materials
• bonded nylon thread tex 70
• leather glue or contact cement with silicone brush
• fabric glue
• fray check
• Lock Bond or Loctite metal glue (optional)
• 1/8” (3 mm), ¼” (6 mm) and 3/8” (1 cm) DST (double sided tape)
• ruler, craft knife, rotary cutter and/or scissors
• 2.5 mm and 3 mm hole puncher
• silver pen, sharpie, erasable fabric pen and/or chalk to make marks (test on scrap pieces first)
• clips and pins
• skiving knife or electric bell skiver (optional)
• seam roller tool or rubber mallet
• duct tape
• scrap pieces of Decovil Heavy and Decovil light
• Tokonole or edge paint with edge coat roller or awl (optional)
• spray starch (optional)
• stapler or hemostat (optional)