Personalized Zippered Pouches

I made these pouches last week for an Etsy customer. These were for her children's teachers. I thought it was such a sweet gift!

Above All Fabric

Melanie at Above All Fabric asked me to make some zippered pouches to show off her new zippers that she is carrying in her shop! I stitched them up today and couldn't be happier with the results!

The following fabrics were used:

• Lagoon Collection by Michael Miller Fabrics: Far Out Floral & Retro Mushrooms
• Tweet Tweet Collection by Michael Miller Fabrics: Citron Belinda

Melanie has an informative post about sewing with zippers in store for her blog next week. You won't want to miss it!


Two large pouches

A view of the weird quilting I did on this one.

Medium-sized pouches, about 3.5" x 8"

A coin purse

French Seams & Zippered Pouches

I make small zippered pouches/coin purses/whatever you want to call them. I have not been happy with the way the interior ends up. So...I took a look at one of my Vera Bradley (yes, I still have VB things even though my stuff is a lot cuter and I can make something for myself) coin purses and AHA! French Seams! So I studied it for 2 minutes, and I was able to replicate the way they are put together. Easy enough. I will definitely be using this technique from now on because I was soooo happy with the result.

Enjoy the photos! This pouch is a specific size (5" x 7") that my mom requested. I think she's using it for receipts. Oh, and it matches her purse that I made for her!

Contest Winner!

You lucky, girls, you! Whenever I host a giveaway, I usually post about the giveaway on many other giveaway blogs. Well, I was busy and lazy this weekend so I didn't. That left my giveaway with 10 entries, which included multiples from a couple of entrants. My laziness=better chances for you!

And the winner of the coin purse giveaway is Robin Stallings!

She was chosen at random by the random number generator at random.org:


Congratulations, Robin!

Giveaway Time!!!

It's time for a giveaway. Enough said, right? This one is a small zippered change purse. OR you can put whatever you want in it. I use mine to hold my debit/credit cards. Scroll below the pictures to see the rules.

Rules:
1. You must leave a comment below for one entry.
2. You must follow me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/aprilforshee) for an additional two entries. Please leave a separate comment saying that you follow me on Twitter.
3. Include your email address in your comment so I can tell you when you win.
4. Contest open to US and Canada only and closes on Monday, August 16 at 5pm EST.

Happy Winning!

New Make Up Bag!

I just listed this gorgeous makeup bag/zippered pouch! It is made from Amy Butler's Nigella Wood Fern collection and is READY TO SHIP!!! It is fully lined with a coordinating Kona cotton solid. It is interlined with thick fleece interfacing and stands on its own!

It measures approximately 8" wide, 7" tall and 3" wide at the bottom.

You can find this in my shop in the READY MADE/READY TO SHIP section! (Don't forget you can also contact me directly to purchase it!) To see all of my zippered pouches, click HERE.

Zippered Pouches and a Garden Apron!

I apologize in advance for the bad photography. I was in a hurry! Of course I will take some better shots on a later date.

Here's what I did today:


and a Garden Apron! I has three gusseted pockets perfect for gloves and tools. It's made out of IKEA canvas fabric and Kona cotton! I love it! These will be $19.50 plus tax and shipping, where applicable.

Zippered Pouches

I have been making a few zippered pouches with boxy bottoms and they turn out so wonderfully every time! So cute! I used strips of scraps for the one shown below, even some selvedge! The selvedge is the self-finished edge of the fabric and usually has the designer/company's name and dots of the different colors used in the fabric.

The pouches all have a layer of fleece and a layer of stabilizer, making them very sturdy. I have 5-inch and 7-inch zippers available. Scrappy Strips Zippered Pouch (like the photo) $15, Regular Zippered Pouch $11.