#Crochet and #Sewing folks, I need your help.

I'm making a crochet pencil case. I'm planning to line it with some cotton fabric.

There are three separate panels (two in the images) to be sewn together. Should I line the crochet pieces before I sew them together or after?

I will be doing the work by hand as I don't have an easily accessible machine.

My sewing experience is limited to reattaching a button and making one or two wonky pouches, so assume I know next to nothing about it.

@allysseriordan

I'm a sewist with a bit of crochet experience but not with bags or pencil cases.

IMHO it would be easier to make a free hanging lining. Is there a pattern piece diagram you could show? It might be possible to simplify the number of lining pieces to one or two.

Furthermore, I'd consider crochet the pieces together rather than sewing them together, but that's just because I hate hand sewing. 🙃

Happy sewing!

@proscience thanks :)

No diagram as I'm going with a short YouTube video as a tutorial. It's basically the two in the photo, and one longer thinner one in between that comes up to the top (not sure that makes sense). The video is https://youtu.be/wzq5asS_nVU?si=eKyDtXqiDc4X21kN

I think I know what you mean by free hanging lining but I'm going to have to look this up :) It gives me a starting place.

Do you just use the slip stitch to crochet the pieces together?

Pencil case | crochet tutorial

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@allysseriordan @proscience Free hanging lining is a bag inside a bag. You make an outer piece and an inner piece (lining) and you sew them together, like in this video: https://youtu.be/i1AsfZRYlRM
How to sew a lined Zipper Pouch--great for Beginners!

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@merigold @proscience thanks :) That's what I assumed it was. I'll have a watch of the video in a bit and see how its done.