Thank you for the tutorial. Your instructions are always so clear and understandable. I first found you when I was looking for a cosmetic case tutorial and that is also a great video.
Hi Holly, I'm always excited when you show us a tutorial. The zipper pouch turned out great, the Lella Boutique fabric is so pretty and the gummy bear zipper charm was a nice added touch. Take care.
Hi Holly, love your tutorials, hope you are having a great day and feeling well. Going to pick up my new Janome today, so excited. Looking forward to making more and more things. Hugs to you and Hubs and of course Dandelion!
Another fantastic tutorial. I have never thought to sew 2/3 the way and then start at the end and come back rather than trying to pull that zipper past the zipper head. Learned something new, Holly. Have a great day. Left Boston waiting in Minneapolis for our flight home to Boise, Idaho.
Hello Holly. Thank you for sharing the pattern and for doing the tutorial, I'm going to have to make a few now! Your scissor protector/case is very pretty. Have a great day!!
Good morning Holly ☕️💜 and thank you for the tutorial!! I want to make these for my 3 quilting friends I go to retreat with! I know the scissors they have (just like mine 😅)!! You did this beautifully!! 🤗
Good morning and happy Tutorial Tuesday! Oh, you used the same pattern I do! Isn't it fantastic? So fun & easy to make, and uses up hardly any fabric. Not only do the cases protect the blades, since each one I've made (five so far) is in a different fabric it's also easy-peasey lemon squeezy to find the pair that I need. Even though I forgot to do the quilting on three of them, they still turned out quite well if I do say so myself. Thank you for showing how you made the pattern larger. When I made the one for my pinking shears, I pinned the pattern to the fabric, then used a ruler & water soluble pen to add a cutting line on the fabric 1/4" away from the edge of the template. Making the template itself bigger as you did would have been a lot faster & easier, especially since I ended up re-making the extra-large one and had to do the ruler-and-marker thing twice (my sister pointed out that I should have used pink fabric for the pinking shears, and gosh-darn it she was right. The original shears case now contains the household general-use scissors instead & my pinking shears are in an adorable pigs-in-tutus print). Now see, I always go off the edge of the fabric when putting in the quilt lines, and end up with big loops/tails of thread when/where I turn to go in the opposite direction. Topstitching within the seam allowance to get to the next line makes *so much sense.* An excellent tip indeed, which I'll be doing from now on. One thing I like to do when adding zipper tabs is to remove the slide completely, so that the tape is closed all the way. Then I open one end about 2", reattach the slide on that end, and position it in the center. That way the tape is closed at both ends and there's no struggle to keep the two sides of the tape lined up when adding the tab. Also when moving the slide past the zipper foot, sometimes I'll rotate the fabric 90 degrees so that it only has to get by narrow front of the prong rather than the entire side of the foot. Since the needle is down, it's easy to rotate the fabric back in place afterwards without it getting all askew. That being said, I like how you simply ended the seam, turned the project around, and finished it from the other edge. I'm going to have to try that one for myself & see which way works better for me :-) Your case turned out beautifully! Lovely fabrics for sure, cute zipper pull, and just all-around nicely sewn. Thank you for sharing with us!
