How to make Zippered Pouches using 10" squares - Quilting Tips & Techniques 175

hello today I thought I'd show you how to make a fun zippered purse or pouch whatever you want to call it and starting out with some pre-cut ten inch squares and I thought that would be a good way of using up some leftover 10 inch squares if you had a project and you've got a couple leftover you might want to make a little zipper pouch so these are really fun to make they're not hard they're quick they're easy they make great gifts and you can use as I said some of the pre-cut ones or I've cut my own so what you need to make one pouch is one zipper so these are 10 inch squares the zipper I'm suggesting be at least a 14 inch and we just it's much easier to work if you've got some extra lengths to work with and you need a 10 inch square of something that you're going to have inside the lining fabric a 10 inch square of a batting which I'm suggesting be a thin one I've used a cotton which works really well and then of course a 10 inch square for the outside so initially if we just lay our batting down and then lay a nice outside square on top with the right side up and then lay the lining square on top of that right side down so that they're right sides together it probably doesn't matter with the black but it might if you've got a printed February so if you lay the right sides together and then on two opposite edges just do your quarter inch seam just a regular quarter inch seam so that is sealed and then turn that out the right way and press that seemed edge and then just do a quarter inch and sit top stitch along there like I've done here I've already done that part so that you didn't have to watch me doing all that I'm really an interesting bit so this is my sind edge this side and this side and then I've done my quarter inch stitching to hold that all in place and then I'd suggest that you just do some form of quilting now I've just done a few straight lines you might want to do something more elaborate the quilting might be the feature and so just pull that piece so you've still got a couple of raw edges opposite sides two finished edges so we got it to that stage now wow that was fast and then we're going to pop the zip in so when you look at these this pouch is very often when you look at a pouch if it's a side-on type one probably doesn't matter as much when it's just along the top but the zipper pulls very often from the from this side so we'll just keep an eye on that because we will depend which way we're going to pop it together at the end so all of these pouches that I've shown you so far are all made the same way as a starting point so now we're going to pop a zipper in you may find a couple of pins are handy at this stage just to hold it so we're going to make that finished edge that we've got right next to the zipper teeth not on top of not a long way from it right next to and then I'm going to go to my sewing machine you need to have your zipper foot on your sewing machine and if it's like this one you'll need to move your needle across so that it doesn't hit the foot when it comes down you want it to come down into one of those little grooves but your machine will dictate to you how its zipper foot work because they asked some slightly different ones so I'm off to the machine now and I'm going to do the same stitch it very close maybe an eighth of an inch away from this finished edge so quite close to the zipper teeth but because it's sitting next to it it won't sit right on top of course pin it up and I'm just going to start sewing and so just keep an eye on that that it's sitting nicely all the way along up against the zip-t so we're nearly there already now I have done a patent for these little zipper pouches from my website on gourmet quarter calm zipper pouch from ten inch squares now I'm going to suggest that you do another oath sewn on top of the very first rode sewing that you have done that was quarter of an inch away from the edge and that's just to help hold the rest of the zipper back in place so if you pop that over the top and just go along right over the top of that stone so Ania and that just gets a nice finish to the zipper on the inside and now I think right we've done that that was pretty easy the next part is a little bit more fiddly but not too bad the reason we've got this extending beyond is just to make the next stage much easier what we want to do now is bring that around and fold that over so you can already see how this is going to work now I'm going to suggest that you pin it in place because what we don't want is to have things misaligned at the ends so we want to pop a little pin to hold that one we're going to be sewing from the other end this time and you could switch it around and do it from the same end but most of us logically work the other way I believe although it's a hard one to answer them and again the same thing at the other end so that your ends would be matching with the zipper so again this one goes next to the teeth so the zipper teeth will end up being exposed it's basically the look we're after so I've got pins along there now and so now to so that it suddenly got a little bit complicated because it's this narrow tube so this is why we've got the extra length on the end here because we're going to open the zipper right out and then we've got much more room to move so now I can take that to the sewing machine and stitch along close to the edge again just like we did on the other side and then back again for that second line of sewing it's a little bit fiddly because this zipper wants to curl around and it's a great way of using up unwanted longer zippers that you've had for that project that never quite finished so I'm going to come in here and stitch again fairly close to that finished edge that we've got for the sitting the sitting right next to the zipper teeth and we coming on here we'll just make sure your zipper staying in nicely there these make great little gifts great storing your threads in there really good for keeping chocolate in I don't think of anything better okay so we've done it first line left side we're going to go back again and do that second line like we did on the other side of the zipper right on top of that same line of sewing that we had previously done as you can see this if it wants to be cast a little bit fiddley here we go and then this is it already in that was pretty painless my threads off but we have got a little thing going with the zipper being a little bit long but so now our next decision is going to be which shape we're going to make are we going to have a zipper sitting right across the top in which case it's going to be that shape are we going to have it sitting in the middle of a flatter bag in which case it's going to be that shape are we going to have it just flipped over the top edge so that it's a side opening like this one or are we going to get really excited then have a look at some other options while we're at it and here we have other options how much fun is this these are all made with this same starting point to the stage that I've got this one here today so this one here is made just the same as this one only that we've done some little paper bag corners inside so that means that when it's inside out when we've done the side seams and I'll show you that in a minute we would stitch across the little corners to make that nice little base paper bag corner like I've gotten in here so that's kind of a nice little shape this would make good anything bags pencil cases chocolate bags or hot chocolate bags again this one exactly the same as this one but again with the little paper bag corners across the bottom so just a slight variation this one here is like this one but again paper bag corners on each of the four corners this one here is a bit like this one only that the zip is taken over to one side more and this one is very like this one but with bigger corners taken so it just makes it a taller bag or zipper pouch or pencil case or chocolate bag liquorice allsort bag now this one's a little bit interesting this one is done so that you would join the same at one end that way but the same at the other end the opposite way so that you get this unusual shape I'm not sure what shape bed is called and then to achieve this one it's exactly the same only that we've done paper bag corners on these three corners so that they're not so sharp actually think that one looks like a slipper I think you could almost wear that one so as you can see lots of fun to be had from a ten inch square in a bit of batting so I'm going to quickly finish this one off just to show you how I finish off inside and I think I'm going to do I don't know which one maybe maybe we'll just get sorted with the zipper first so in order to do the inside so you want to have your zipper open probably at least two-thirds of the way because if you have it closed when you turn it inside out and sew it you actually then can't get it back out the right way again so I think I'm going to do maybe that flat one so we in order to make something like this one we would need to find the center to pop the center of the zip in so we might put a pin in there and we'll do the same at this end so that we've got something to match the zip to and then we're going to flatten that so we've got it inside out at the moment and yes we've still got lots of extra zip hanging around here but we're going to chop that off shortly so if we match the zip to the center where the pin is there we can pop the pin across to hold it and we'll do the same at this end so that that is it just meets where the pin is and we can pop maybe a couple of pins because this one is sitting open at this end so you might need a couple of pins just to hold that and then we're going to stitch that seen so initially I'm making it it would end up like this to make it like this we've got the corners so I'll show you that to the side now you don't need your zipper foot anymore you just pop your regular quarter inch foot on and remember if you've moved your needle to move your needle back again now we're just going to come across and do this seam you don't want to make sure there's no little bits caught inside little platy bits and start sewing from one end again just your little quarter inch seam is enough coming right across and when you get to the zipper just go a little bit slower because you don't want to suddenly go plank on something but these are nylon zippers which is a whole lot easier the metal zippers can be a little bit harder to do this with because you would have to avoid the teeth much more so when we get to the zipper we're going to go just slowly what we're going to reverse back over it and then carry on and that just gives it an extra bit of strength because that's going to be the end of where the zipper goes to and then on this end just the same thing start at one side and same thing when you're going up their zipper kickers zip it fits together just do your reverse back over there and now because you've done that extra BEC stitch over the zipper you can actually just cut that zipper off now look a bit pretty scary but it works and the other thing I would do at the stage I would probably neaten those edges a little bit with a zig zag stitch so I'm going to get my rotary cutter and ruler and just trim off any fluffy bits that are there so that it's a nice edge and we're just going to run over or sew over the edge there with a zig zag stitch so I do need to change my foot again for the leg say because the needle is swinging and that orange foot doesn't work so well with that change to the zig-zag stitch there and this just tops it unraveling and getting little raw edges and things inside of this so that was one end and that's a much neater finish I feel than just leaving these edges raw which will get fluffy with with use and the fabric may start fraying as well so and because I remember to leave the zip open I can now turn that out the right way and have a look and see how I'm feeling about that hope you're calling us out look at that looks like just the right size for did I mention it fits a bar of chocolate so there you have your flat one I haven't quite finished pushing the corners out but that's because I think I'm going to pop these little paper bag corners on to show you how to do that so to do that we want it inside out with their corners pushed out again and this time we're going to now depending with you order the sort of a flatter one or whether you wanted it to come up higher like this one it's the same thing it's just the amount that you take within the corner so all four corners probably should be the same that probably is a good starting point so you want this seam here to match when you open that corner out with what would be the same there so that you've got this opened out so that you've got the same going right up the middle to the point and we're just going to sew across maybe three-quarters of an inch from the actual point there straight stitch so again just do the corner thing and now we're going to have to do it on all four corners so if you can see that that's a corner there so when that's turned out you've now got that sort of raised corner so that's quite nice so if you can keep your corners all going as if you because we press the same dent that way try and keep the same going in the same direction it will just help it sit a little bit nicer so we'll do the next corner nearly done already and then these two corners same thing we're going to pop it seem in one direction and so right across there did I mention that these four aids are cut with each other as I said they will be a pattern on my website if you're not quite sure and want a little bit more information but so much fun greatest little gift bags in their own right great filled with all sorts of fun things and great for little appliance type things really it's unlimited what you could use them for and because we use so many of these pre-cut these days and then in squares and things often you've got the odd one over it's great to be able to turn it into something fun and useful so there I've done all my for koalas looks a little bit strange you could trim those corners off if you wanted to that when they're only small like that I'll often just leave them inside because I don't feel that they get in the way of anything particularly if you were going to trim them off I would suggest that you do the little zigzag finish where you cut a lot as well stop any frame and then it that didn't take long it was fun it looks delicious and it's a little zipper pouch made using up some 10 inch squares I can't think of anything better and I'll did I mention they great with chocolate inside I did say that have some fun with your ten inch squares thank you you

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Keywords: quilt, quilting, patchwork, sewing, craft, bag, zipper, 10 squares, squares, batting, cotton, fabric, how to, make, gourmetquilter, zippered pouch, purse

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Length: 20min 29sec (1229 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 28 2014