Rainbow Zipper Pouch Tutorial

I love my new zipper pouch!  Anything bright and rainbow colored is especially popular around here, and who couldn't use a new pouch?

The pouch works perfectly as a break-away clutch to put inside a larger tote.  It's so bright and colorful, you'll always be able too spot it!  (I have a feeling I'll be making a 2nd one of these when my little missy comes home from Nana's house...)

I always wanted to make a zipper pouch and since one of my sponsors (Zipper Lane) sent me a bunch of zippers I thought I would make my interpretation of a "zipper pouch".

(Zipper Lane sells wholesale priced YKK zippers, you can get 100 7 inch zippers for $28. Perfect for big projects, you just need to plan ahead since they ship from India and it takes a little bit longer...)

Materials needed:

• Several zippers (I used 13 7 inch zippers)
• Sewing machine
• zipper foot (not mandatory, but it helps)
• Sharp needle
• Hand sewing needle and thread
• iron
• extra fabric or bias tape if you would like to add a hand strap
• fray check (optional)

Instructions:

1.  Unzip your zippers and begin sewing the zippers together. (right sides together) Carefully line up the metal zipper edge piece.

wonder clips, but I figured not many people have them so I had to find another way...)  The best way I found is with a needle and thread.

3.  Sew a couple of stitches right above the ends of the zipper as shown below:

4.  If you want to add a hand strap, cut a piece of bias tape to the desired length and sew along the edge.

Fold the bias tape in half and slide it inside the pouch, lining up the edges as shown below.  Pin in place. 

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