With all my duties done and my scrapbooking up to date, I was determined to do something in the sewing room today! I left early for the fabric store to buy a zipper - the last thing I needed to make Amy Alan's Exposed Zipper Bag from her Beginner Serging Craftsy class. I had already picked out two fat quarters from my stash and I had exactly the right sized piece of fusible fleece left over from the Leah Day wholecloth project.
It's pretty simple to assemble and serge the bag but since this was the first thing I ever sewed 'for real' on my serger, it took me a long time. I only had a bit of trouble getting the stitches to lie on the fabric - the loops went off the edge and it felt like I couldn't get the zipper tape closer to the needles. The pouch turned out really cute anyway and I managed to at least make the same mistake on both sides, leading to a very evenly stitched zipper, with maybe too much zipper tape exposed.
I wonder if I could use an extra layer of interfacing between the outer and lining fabric as I find the bag not very sturdy. Perhaps that would make the layers too thick to go through the serger blade. It does work perfectly to hold all my hand-binding supplies and I'm pretty happy with my first project from the class. I will definitely try making another one - maybe with some corrections from Amy. Still, I'm impressed that the zipper zips and the bag is actually a box shape!
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