Here we are at Day 4 of the Nightingale Zipper Case Sew Along!
Today we are making our zipper pouches. It’s a little crazy to me that I’ve held entire sew alongs that were a week long just to make a zipper pouch–and here we are making one in just a day. Haha! Don’t worry if you can’t entirely complete the pouch today. This info and the videos on my Instagram and Facebook accounts will stay there when you’re ready to sew.
If you’ve made any of my zipper pouches (particularly the Good Luck Pouch!), parts of making this pouch will feel very familiar. A few notes about making the zipper pouch:
As with the other zippers in this pattern, the zipper for the pouch is cut slightly larger than necessary. Personally, I feel like having four or five extra inches on the zipper length really help with the installation. I’m able to get the zipper sewn on more easily and it looks better, too!
When adding the A3 Bindings on the ends of the zipper pouch (make sure you have the pouch turned inside out first), you don’t need to encase the zipper in the binding. I like to put the binding as close as possible, but not over the zipper teeth, as it makes for a really bulky seam. Since we’ll be cutting a boxy corner into the ends of the zipper, there’s no need to bind the zipper teeth in this step anyway. You can see in the photo below how the binding doesn’t cover the zipper teeth. The bulk of the two layers of zipper teeth stacked on top of each other plus the binding is pretty thick and, in this case, unnecessary to sew over.
After cutting the boxy corners, you’re instructed to leave the pouch turned inside out, then add the A4 Binding pieces onto the TOP boxy corners ONLY!! You want to leave the bottom edges raw and open. Then when you turn the pouch right side out, you can close up the bottom boxy corner openings with a 1/8″ seam, but still don’t add any bindings to those bottom two raw edges.
That’s it for today! Check out Instagram or Facebook a little later today for the daily video.
Links from today’s post
Clover Wonder Clips
OLFA rotary cutter (I have one for fabric and one for paper/zippers)
Zipper by the yard (looks metal, but has plastic teeth!)
Black Scissors -LDH Brand
Thanks for sewing along!