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Article: Two new skills unlocked - Zippers and piping

Two new skills unlocked - Zippers and piping

Two new skills unlocked - Zippers and piping

I've finished another practice project! This one is a small zipper pouch, for toiletries or makeup, with a zipper top and piped edges. Piping is not only a pretty decorative touch, but it can help a soft-sided bag hold its shape. To add piping, you have to sew the bag inside out, then turn it right side out when it's all complete.

Ta Da!

Foil print zipper pouch

Foil print zipper pouch

Foil print zipper pouch

Foil print zipper pouch

Foil print zipper pouch

I created these beautiful foiled panels a year ago to use for one of my clutches. That's a whole other story, really. It took me weeks to figure out how to lay down the foil with such intricate detail in five different colors. And once I figured it out, it still took two full days to create them. Unfortunately, after all of that, there were a couple of tiny mistakes along the outside edges and I didn't feel they were perfect enough to make a clutch with, so I had to scrap them. But I loved them so much that I've been looking all year for a smaller project I could use them for in which those mistakes wouldn't show. And this bag was the perfect solution.

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