Materials: Nice material; lining material (it's best if you use something different than your 'nice' material so you can see what's what - or else it could be confusing!); thin cord for drawstring; thread.

• 1. Cut out material & lining; if you want a finger-cymbal bag that's about 6" wide by 4" deep like the bag pictured here, cut your materials 8" wide by 12" long (the width stays about the same, but you need extra for the drawstring 'fold-over').
• 2. Lay the lining and nice material right sides together and sew along 3 edges (the two long ones and one short one), about 1/2" from the cut edge.
• 3. Turn it inside out so the sewn edges are now inside, and you have a long unlined bag with lining material on one side and the nice material on the other. (it's helpful to iron it flat at this point - see photo below)

• 4. Fold this in half so the nice material is together, and lining is outside. Sew along 3 edges as before, starting and ending about one and a half inches from the top.
• 5. One of the top edges is 'raw,' the other is nicely finished. Tuck in the raw edges and sew them closed. (photo below shows right-sides folded together and sewn along 3 sides, leaving the top edges open so they can be folded under and sewn - see pins in photo)

• 6. Turn the bag right-side out. Fold in each top edge once and sew; this leaves an opening at each side for the drawstring. (see photo below)

• 7. For this 6" x 4" bag, cut two pieces of cord 14" long. Get a pin and thread them in, one starting and ending on one side, the other starting and ending on the other side, and knot each cord's ends together. Pull - your bag is closed! (in this photo I've already threaded in one drawstring cord, the other one will end up knotted together on the other side)

If this doesn't make sense, let me know!