Today I have some cute little zippered pouches to share with you. If you think you have seen something like this before on the blog, you’re right! I made these as gifts back in 2017. 🙂
The Open Wide Zippered Pouch is a free tutorial from Anna Graham of the blog noodlehead. It comes with options for three different sizes. I chose to make two of the small size bags and reverse which fabrics were on the inside and outside, so I could have the best of all worlds with this pair of bags. I got my fabric (Rifle Paper Co. Menagerie Rosa in Hunter and Violet Metallic quilting cotton) and zippers from Pintuck & Purl. I used Fusible Featherweight interfacing from Pellon (because I had it on hand for garment-sewing) that I got from Joann Fabrics.
The small size bags start out as 10″ x 7″ rectangles of fabric, making the finished size slightly smaller. These are great for holding pens and pencils or as travel bags to hold all your odds and ends.
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The tutorial itself is easy to follow and gives you a nice finished product where all the raw edges (including the zipper’s raw edges) are enclosed. My stitching on the zipper tab got a little wobbly, but I didn’t feel like ripping it out to do again, so I decided it was good enough.
This is a great, useful scrap buster and is good for gifts, including gifts to yourself. 😉
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