Welcome to the Good Luck Pouch Sew Along Day 4!
Today, we’re sewing the sides of our Good Luck pouches closed, adding on the Side Bindings, and then cutting the boxy corners.
A few notes about today:
Before sewing up the sides of your pouch, make sure it is inside out. Fold the panel in half with the zipper at the top. When you sew on the edges where the zipper is, the layers can be pretty thick–especially if your zipper has bulkier zipper teeth. If you can’t get your presser foot up and over the zipper teeth, just sew as close to the zipper teeth as you can. We’ll be cutting the corners of the zippers off anyway.
In these photos, the zipper I’m using looks metal, but it’s nylon (plastic teeth). I almost always use nylon zippers because you can sew over them and cut them with utility scissors or an old rotary cutter.
The Side Bindings might be slightly larger or smaller than your side edge, just center them on the side edge. Again, we’ll be cutting those corners, so the Side Binding doesn’t need to fit perfectly.
Using a ruler, mark the lines for the boxy corners according to the size you are making. The marked lines will be covered up with binding, so no need to worry about making sure the lines are completely erased after.
Following the marked lines, carefully cut the corners of the pouch. Sharp fabric scissors work best for this step, as you’ll be cutting through multiple layers of fabric and batting/foam stabilizer. However, when cutting on the line across the zipper, I recommend using utility scissors instead. We don’t want our precious fabric scissors to get dull! 🙂
Those are the tips for today! You can find the Day 4 Sew Along video on my Instagram account HERE.
Links to products from today’s assignment:
Wonder Clips
OLFA 6.5″ x 6.5″ square
LDH black Scissors
Frixion Heat Erasable Pen
Thanks for sewing along!
Kristina
Leslie Modrow says:
I’m using a plastic zipper but still breaking machine needles when I sew over the zipper. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for your help!
Leslie
centerstreetquilts says:
Hi Leslie,
I’m sorry, that’s so frustrating! It could be your machine or the needles that you’re using–some machines are more prone to breaking needles. I would suggest using the handwheel when you go over the zipper teeth. As you get close to the zipper, don’t use the foot pedal and instead turn the handwheel to gently guide the needle through the are where the zipper teeth are. Then when you get past the zipper, you can resume using the foot pedal. Hopefully that will help!