Arrrrghhhhh! Urgent help required with a sewing pattern!

[HeadFairy]

I'm making this bag, and I've got to step 12 and I'm totally stuck as to what they mean. I'm sitting staring at my fabric, and I really don't want to balls it up because I don't have any more material and I'm making this for my sister for Christmas, and, and, and…..

What do they mean when they say "fold the side from the cut corners straight up". Does that mean the bottom? But why do they say I should press the top and bottom afterwards? Surely if I did that there would only be one fold.

Pleeeeeeeease help!

I think "at the iron" is a typo....a mistake.

Okay reading this pattern it appears you should have two rectangles which will be on the outside of the bag and which have notches cut out at the bottom corners.

I think you fold the material over at both sides of the material I assume as deep as the notches go, iron these so there is a crease and then fold the bottoms over at the notches and iron so they are creased too

I think what it is trying to say is you need to make like a T shape (upside down and as you look at it side on) to make the bottom.

If you go straight across from where you cut the corners and fold up/down you get the bottom/ side edge.

You sew along the top of the T and then sew up the sides.

if you form the joined bits into the bag shape you'll get an idea of where to sew....I think you are sewing the corners up to give the bag its 3D shape

so put your hands inside the bag along the side seams....they will be in the centre of what would be the side gusset,flatten the bottom down to make the bottom of the bag and then you should see which bits to seam up.

Thanks everyone! I also contacted the woman who posted the pattern and this was her reply:

For the look of the bags in the pictures you can just skip this step. Skip to step 13 and just do the outside like the inside. I'm not sure why I left that step in there!

You could do step 12 and it would look kind of like piping at the edges of the bag. If you want to do it with the piping look, here ya go- with the cover face up at the ironing board, fold the right edge under straight up from the corner that has the square cut out of it. Next fold the left side under, then the bottom. Press each side down, then sew this folded edge 1/4 of an inch away from the edge. Then continue to step 13.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

So I think 2jackrussels got it right! Thanks so much for all your hope. Let's hope that with all the endless interruptions from kids I can get it finished today!