Welcome to Pandemic Apparel on today's episode, I'll be showing you how to make a pouch like
this and you can adjust the measurements on my website. I'll show you how to do that to
make a brush or pencil pouch. So let's get started. So here is the PDF that I have on
my website and I used to enlarge it 200%. The seam allowances are included, it's half an inch
and here is the pattern blown up. Along these edges it is half an inch but I'm going to fold
it under 5 eighths of an inch just to have it exposed zipper. So for this project you'll need
two pieces of fabric measuring 12 inches by 14 inches. This fabric is light so it did have
interfacing on both sides. A 12 inch zipper and a 18 inch piece of bias tape. So what I'm
going to do now is let's say this is my lining and this is my outer fabric. I'm going to fold them
to meet in the middle then I'm going to position my zipper on top and then put my outer fabric on
top. So the zipper is going to be sandwiched between the outer fabric and the lining fabric.
So you're going to pin in place and you're going to sew with a zipper foot. You may want you're
going to have to open the zipper to sew along the edges. So that's that. Here's one that I've
already done and I'm going to stop here and I'm going to do the the tab because it is difficult to
open the pouch if it doesn't have a tab. I found that out the hard way. So here is the piece of
fabric and I'll show you how I got that. It's just by cutting, having one of these. You'll
have four of them but you only need one and what you're going to do is you're going to fold it in
half, fold it in half like so, iron it and then you're going to fold under half an inch. If you
want it a little bit thinner you can just meet the ends of the fabric to the center, fold,
and top stitch. So here's one already done. It's already top stitched. We're going to open the
zipper, turn it inside out and I'm attaching the tab so when the zipper is closed the tab is going
to be on the side where the zipper is. So fold it in half, attach the tab to the center and put
the fabric here and pin in place like so. It's a half inch seam allowance so just sew half an
inch from the edge, trim down to a quarter of an inch and attach the bias tape. After you've
attached the bias tape you're going to wrap the bias tape around and top stitch. So here's one
already done. I've top stitched on both sides of the bias tape. Now to do the sides I'm going to
open it here like so and match the raw edges, pin sew half an inch from the edge and again attach
the bias tape. This time the bias tape on both ends I'm going to fold under half an inch and attach
the bias tape. Trim down of course a quarter of an inch, attach the bias tape, top stitch and do
that to all four sides. So I'll show you what it looks like on this one. It really makes for a
clean edge and you won't have any raw edges or anything and this should be I guess a really good
project for a beginner and intermediate sewer. Again you can make these patches for anything,
any size. So hopefully I'll have another episode for you next week and it'll probably be another
craft project. But after that I'm hoping to create a whole bunch of episodes that are for
like garments, things that you can wear and so hopefully this will get you inspired to start
sewing and then in the next coming episodes I'll have something for you to make so you can wear
it out or whatnot. So thanks for joining me on this episode and I'll see you next week.
