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Creativity Magazine - Issue 39 - May/Jun 2013
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1
With right sides together lay your zip along a piece of fabric the width of your zip and as long as the required circumference of the bag.
2
Using a zip foot stitch close to the zip.
3
Press the seam back and stitch along the top using a regular foot. When you get to the zipper pull leave the needle down in the fabric, lift the foot and maneuver the zip pull past the foot.
4
Fold the fabric around and place the right sides of the fabric together again. Stitch close to the zip using the zip-foot.
5
Press the fabric back and stitch along the top edge as before with the regular foot.
6
Fold the bag flat with the wrong sounds outwards and the zip in the centre.
7
With the zip open stitch straight across the bag just inside the zip stops at either end, being sure to go back and forth across the zip section a couple of times. Trim off the excess fabric.
8
Pinch the corners of the bag lining up the end seam with the side of the bag. Use a ruler to measure a 2” corner and draw across with a chalk pencil.
9
Sew along this line. Repeat for all four corners.
10
Cut off the excess fabric in the corners and turn to the right side to complete