Beach Bag Tutorial Easy Sewing

inside: Get ready for summer with this Beach Bag Tutorial. This is a great sewing tutorial to make a fun beach tote bag that you will use and love all summer long.

Summer is almost here!! My kids have three weeks left of school and then we are in summer mode. I’m getting ready with lots of summer sewing. This beach bag tutorial is a great one to get you in the summer mood.

There are so many fun summer sewing projects you can make, but you can never have too many bags for summer fun. I’ve got an easy beach/pool bag sewing tutorial to share with you today. This is a great size bag for hauling around all your supplies for summer water fun.

Beach Bag Tutorial Easy Sewing –

I was able to take this fun beach tote with us on our spring break trip the end of March. It really is a great bag with a mesh pocket on one side and a mesh pocket on the other side. I was able to keep important things like my daughters hearing aids and my phone in this zipper pocket and then all the beach “stuff” my kids collected in the mesh side.

Our towels and snacks fit great in the main part of the beach bag. Sew up this great beach tote bag pattern so you can have an amazing bag for all your summer adventures.

Beach Bag Sewing Pattern –

Grab your supplies and let’s get sewing!

You will need:

1/2 yard canvas fabric for the main bag
1/4 yard mesh or HERE
fold over elastic or HERE
a zipper at least 12″ long
rip stop fabric for the pocket and straps {or other water resistant fabric for straps and zip pocket or HERE

Cut your main piece of canvas fabric 22″ wide and 34″ long {you will fold this in half}

Cut and sew the straps – The straps should be cut 3″ wide and the length depends on how long you want your straps. I would cut them at least 40-45″ long and you can always shorten. Sew the straps with the long sides together and then turn right side out.

Fold the canvas main bag in half. Cut a pocket from the rip stop fabric. It should be 13″ wide and about 12″ tall. You can play with size of this. The pocket will be placed on 1 side of the canvas bag. The pocket needs to be 3″ from the top of the bag.

Sew the zipper – right sides together- to the top edge of the pocket and topstitch.

Flip the pocket up and sew the other edge of the zipper to the bag, making sure the zipper is sewn 3″ from the top edge and centered in the middle of the bag side.

Flip the pocket back over and fold under the bottom edge – pin. Place each end of the strap on the open sides of your pocket. This will close the sides of the pocket and sew the straps to the bag. Pin all in place. Adjust your strap length now if desired.

Sew along the bottom of the pocket and both sides of the strap.

On the opposite side of the bag we will not create the mesh pocket. Cut the pocket measurements the same as the other pocket. Cut your fold over elastic 2″ shorter than the top of your pocket. Fold the elastic over the top of the mesh and sew. Stretch as you sew {I used a zig-zag stitch to sew}

Stretch the top of the pocket flat and pin. Pin the bottom of the pocket and the sides under the straps as you did on the other side pocket. Stitch the bottom and straps down. Make sure your straps are the same length as the other side.