Zippered Box Pouch Sewing Tutorial No Raw Edges - 3 Sizes

hey guys it's Melanie Ham welcome back to my channel today's video sewing so I'm going to talk about for you guys today and we're gonna bring back the box pouch so I don't know if you've seen my box pouch tutorial from many years ago now I think five or six years ago anyway we're gonna do a new one today but there are no exposed seams on the inside on this tutorial so I changed the way that I do the construction I even did several kind of trial runs like I didn't like this one I didn't feel like it opened wide enough so I've been playing around with this really trying to make it easy enough for my beginners that want to learn how to make this kind of box pouch but with no exposed seams so that's gonna be this video and check out the blog post because I also have this adorable tiny size and then this really nice like large size so lots of different measurements over on my blog MelanieKHam.com. If you like my videos don't forget to subscribe thumbs up hit the bell so that you notified for every new video that comes out let's jump in to the tutorial let's make this box pouch this is gonna be my lining fabric this is gonna be my outer fabric the butterflies we need to cut them 11 wide by 8 so our outer and our lining then we also need the same size in fusible fleece. This is gonna be for the pull tabs, these guys, and this piece measures 2.5 x 8 inches. The other thing you need are a 14 inch zipper, coordinating thread because we are gonna do one little top stitch here so you want that to coordinate with your fabric the rest of it will be hidden. You need some good fabric scissors and I really like using my clover clips for zip pouches so have some of these. You also need your iron, ironing board and your sewing machine. I did pull my zipper foot out which is right there so you do want to have a zipper foot and then like a small ruler or a measuring tape something like that. So the first thing we need to do is attach our fusible fleece to our outer pieces so follow the manufacturer's instructions but typically you don't want to use steam and you can feel one side is smooth and then one side has these little glue dots so you want the glue dots onto the wrong side of your fabric. Then I typically hold it there for 10-15 seconds and then sort of move it around allowing that glue to melt into your fabric. And you want to do that for both outer pieces. So my fusible piece is done and while I'm standing here at the iron I like to go ahead and prep my pull-tabs I'm gonna fold it in half and hit it with my iron to make a crease now when you open it up you're gonna fold this outside into that crease. And the same on the other side. Then you'll fold it together one more press now it's ready to sew but I won't have to get back up and go back to the ironing board to do it so this is really good but if yours is kind of opening up a little bit you can clip it or pin it just to keep it nice and secure. We've got our outer piece our zipper teeth side down take your lining right sides together of our lining and our outer piece so we're gonna flip this over line everything up and then we're going to clip really make sure all of these edges are nice and lined up. Now before we head to the sewing machine grab that little ruler that I mentioned before or your measuring tape or what you have and we are gonna measure a half inch from our sides so if you have a pencil or a pen a marking tool I really like this blue one from Clover so find that half inch mark we're gonna measure and so what we're gonna do with that is when we're at the sewing machine we're gonna start at that line so down with our zipper foot and then stop at this line so that's why we want to mark it ahead of time. So let's head to the sewing machine. A normal straight stitch, typical stitch lengths I've got mine at a 2.4. I do have my zipper foot on my machine so remember we're gonna start at the line and stop at our line. I am gonna back stitch Open it up, make sure it's all looking fine so that I can fix it now if you need to. Grab your other outer piece and your other lining we're going to take our zipper teeth side down lining up those edges really well and then our lining right side or the printed side down so we're going to line up the sides on both sides and the top and clip it into place. We are going to be doing the 1/2 inch thing again so mark your 1/2 inch on each side open it up and check it out make sure it's looking good now we're gonna do the same half inch thing with our top stitch so make your mark on either side again. Now we're going to sew our top stitch onto our bag. I'm switching back to my regular foot and what I like to do is use my presser foot to line it up against the folded edge and then I move my needle position all the way to the left side that way I can make sure it's really straight going all the way down and that it looks the same on both sides we're gonna back stitch and we're going to start and stop at our marked line stopping at that half inch mark and if you can't see it stop with your needle down and lift up your presser foot so that you can see where that line is and do the same thing on the other side just looking under there and checking it out I need one more stitch and then while we're here with our nice top stitch thread we are going to go ahead and sew our pull tabs. Move your needle position into the spot that you want we want it to go right along the edge and then we're going to do the same on the other side and then do the same thing on the other side so now we're gonna do is put our right sides together and our wrong sides together and we need to sew them closed we're gonna do this using half inch seam allowance so for the outer we need to go all the way down so let's do that now on the lining we need to leave a hole because that's how we're gonna flip it right side out so we're gonna line it up just gonna put a quick clip here to keep it together and it needs to be you know 4 inches ish wide enough so that you can flip it. I'm gonna start down here I'm gonna backstitch because sometimes that seam has a little stress as you're putting you know pulling everything right side out all right then I'm going to go up here to the top Sew down till you reach about the right spot back stitch. What we're gonna do is we're gonna start with the end with the zipper stop not with the zipper pull end OK because I want you to get one under your belt before doing the other side which is a little bit more challenging so let's go to the ironing board and just get everything nice and pressed flat Now let's flip it over and do our lining also all right and we also need to put our tab in here so I just will fold this in half and cut it with my fabric scissors so here's one that's nice and long we don't need it to be quite this long although you can if you want but this gives us extra wiggle room to get it in that seam. So remember we're gonna be at the sewing machine and we're actually gonna be sewing the outer side first so I'm just gonna kind of pin up my lining get that out of the way because we're actually gonna be pulling back and sewing 3/8 of an inch it's a little measuring lesson here in 1 inch so let's look at our 1 inch here there are 8 marks so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 so on the 3 so 1 2 3 if you know where your 3/8 inch mark is on your machine you can just do that but most of us probably don't so we're gonna double check ourselves and we're gonna make a little couple little marks just to make sure we do this right so we're gonna do 1 2 3 so we need to sew along these marks. I like to just make several marks so I'm lining up outside of my ruler counting 1 2 3 in that's 3/8 of an inch even on that zipper. I've got my lines marked, then we're gonna fold our tab so the fold needs to be coming on the inside the raw edges lining up however much you want your pull tab to come out clip that into place. remember we're gonna pull back our lining and we're gonna sew down those 3/8 inch marks and we're doing this on the side of the zipper with the stop all right so let's go do it. At the machine this is a little tip because then you won't even have to measure for the other side what we're gonna do we're gonna line up the right side of our bag with presser foot and then we're going to just change our needle position to where those marks are let me go to the left so now I know if I have my needle in this position for the rest of my bag because we're gonna do this on the other side then you just line up the outer edge of your bag with your presser foot and you just go right ahead and do it you don't have to make the 3/8 inch marks and don't worry about back stitching because we're going to be boxing out our bag and so those corners are gonna get cut off anyways this is a plastic zipper so I can sew over it that being said go nice and slow and be really careful when you're doing this we don't want to snap a needle and have a gull flying so do this part really slowly and we're gonna go back and forth a few times to make sure that it's nice and secure right now see that wasn't so bad we're gonna go into it on the other side this side is very similar but we need to open up the zipper right because if we sew it like this the zipper pull will not be right does that make sense? so we need to open it up we're gonna pin back our lining like we did before, grab my other pull tab and make sure we have that ready but what's gonna happen is we need to do a much better job of pinning this whole area into place that way the teeth don't separate as we're sewing. Remember we already did our 3/8 inch we can just go ahead and sew see you're not we're not doing too bad here right? Now take some non fabric scissors just whatever you have and trim our zipper ends. This time we are going to sew a pin back our outer pieces and we're gonna sew along our lining but instead of 3/8 of an inch it's gonna be a 1/4 so if you have a 1/4 piecing foot just throw that on there you don't even have to measure but just in case you don't a 1/4 inch is 2 of the hash marks. We are gonna sew over the zipper so really we're gonna try to pull up all this outer as best as we can don't worry too much about this but we're gonna try our best okay this is the trickiest part of the whole bag I like to have like a Purple Thang or a Stiletto I'm just telling you right now this is the trickiest part of the whole project See that? Seriously that's the hardest part of the whole bag. so let's go and do the other side ok so now it's time to do our box out so I'm gonna show you how to do one and then it's the exact same process for 1,2,3,4 corners of your outer part of your pouch and then you're gonna do the exact same thing for 1, 2, 3, 4 of your lining. If you are making the mini version when you get to the last couple a box outs it's real tricky to get it through the machine so just know that that is normal and expected so that's why I don't recommend doing that mini size if you're like a beginner do a few of the medium-sized first so that you get the hang of it. We need our little ruler again and we need to measure 1 3/4 inches from our seam to make a little box mark I'm gonna use my Clover pen again but you can use a pencil or a pen or whatever you have and I want to reiterate that it's from this seam okay because then when you go to pinch your fabric together it's not gonna work right if you do it from the edge so you want to do it from the seam so I'm measuring down 1 3/4 inch and these numbers are different depending on the size you make and then when you make your marks then double check yourself and make sure you did it right cuz look my initial line was there and it's supposed to be over here okay so you want it to be 1 3/4 and then 1 3/4. Right up to that corner, don't cut your lining make sure that's out of your way so again this is the same on all of those corners open it up and we're gonna pull it so that this is a straight seam I I like to sew my seam going toward the lining this is where you do want to back stitch so we're gonna backstitch here I'm gonna I'm gonna up my seam from a 1/4 because that's what I had it set on back to 3/8 of an inch so what we just did boxing it out is this seam so that is what indicates how tall it's gonna be so when you are doing these box pouches that is the measurement that you can mess around with a lot to get different results and different kind of size bags whether you want like a taller bag or a squatty bag that is that measurement that you mess with do that exact same thing on another three sides for your outer bag and then the lining. Remember we got our hole here so that's how we're gonna flip it right side out more done so go ahead and box out your bag we're we're almost done we're in the homestretch. Here's how it's looking, it kind of looks like a big ball of a mess I want to show you just how I do the last one because that's the trickiest one. really want you to make sure that you're double-checking before you're cutting into things and before you're sewing that you're only doing it on the thing you want to because sometimes things kind of get underneath you and I don't want you cutting anything that you've already sewn together and if you do one of these and you feel like this part was a little fussy for you just shorten that a box a bit and then that'll make it a little bit easier for next time sometimes it's easier if you open up the zipper all the way because then there's nothing stiff inside and also I want to remind you when you're doing your lining this is the inside seam like the the wrong side seam of your lining which is inside your bag so as long as this seam is secure and will uphold you know opening it and closing it and putting things in here it doesn't have to be the prettiest thing okay all right moment of truth let's open it up before we sew this clothed, let's put pop our fingers in here and we're gonna kind of work on those corners and box it out I like to look at my pull tabs, my zipper and just make sure that if there's anything that needs to be fixed now is the time to do it because once we sew the lining closed it's gonna be much more difficult and because we gave that a press this is all just nicely laying flat together anyways. I like to mark with a pin where to start and stop you can hand stitch it if you don't want to see that seam but that seems too hard to me let's get this done, right? trim everything up push your finger into those corners because that will make the lining kind of stay put. There we go! Our box pouch is complete there's our little medium ones okay how was that? not too bad right? let me know how it went and let me know in the comments thumbs up share this video with a friend that really tells YouTube that my videos are valuable and that they are worthwhile for them to show them to you when you come on to YouTube so it really is helpful to help keep this channel going and for me to be able to provide more free tutorials for you guys thanks so much for watching I will see you in the next video bye

Channel: Melanie Ham

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Length: 22min 37sec (1357 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 14 2019