# Green Natsu bag from Japancraft

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**Created:** [3 March 2026 16:45 UTC](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/t/green-natsu-bag-from-japancraft/2511 "2026-03-03T16:45:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![SusanCrowe](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/user_avatar/forum.stashhubapp.com/susancrowe/32/1218_2.png) [@SusanCrowe](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/u/SusanCrowe)\
**Post date:** [3 March 2026 16:45 UTC](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/t/green-natsu-bag-from-japancraft/2511/1 "2026-03-03T16:45:55Z")

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![Green Natsu Bag](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d0848a678f77d185da3c5c9b6e33b15477d0dbb0.jpeg)  
I’ve just comleted this beauty from a kit from Japancraft  
[Natsu Bag kit online](https://www.japancrafts.co.uk/store/p454/natsubag.html#/)  
This is huge and going to be my beach bag for a big holiday that’s coming up.  
The kit comes with a pack of 4" charms and 1m lining and handle fabric. I added wadding and 4 buttons.

The instructionas are good but call for a lot of hand stitching - no way!  
My alterations were:

1. Sewed the 4 “blocks” together using a faggoting stitch on my sewing machine (not handstitched like the pattern)
2. Made handles shorter and used wadding in them
3. went over all the seams with faggoting stitch
4. sewed handles to inside of bag, flipped the point down an sewed on a button.
5. Topstitched all around top edge of bag.
6. Made the buttons from pain wooden ones, painted with food dye, washed, and edged with a gold posca marker.
7. No.18 is the fagoting stitch - typically used to joing 2 sections of fabric with a small gap - I butted them together.  
 ![image](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a9a8c09b32498902a2a1268b6a5e2ab79d6ee2c4.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![BlossomSandwich](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/user_avatar/forum.stashhubapp.com/blossomsandwich/32/9_2.png) [@BlossomSandwich](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/u/BlossomSandwich)\
**Post date:** [6 March 2026 09:41 UTC](https://forum.stashhubapp.com/t/green-natsu-bag-from-japancraft/2511/2 "2026-03-06T09:41:17Z")

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Great make, sounds like you got to use lots of different techniques on this project!