Sew Together LIVE! Season 1 Episode 12: How to Make a Zipper Pencil Case with Cuddle®

How to Make a Zippered Pencil Case Using Cuddle®

Teresa Coates, Cuddle® Ambassador

Skill Builders: Here are some of the skills you'll learn in this episode. We’ll talk about: 

• Easy zipper installation with a clever twist
• Adding embroidery or appliqué
• Mixing Cuddle® with other fabrics 
• How to customize it for holding more than pencils
• Fussy Cutting with Cuddle®
• Using Interfacing 
• Making a Turning Gap
• Adding a tag

Project info:

• Link to pattern:  Pinch Me Pouch
• Fabrics: C3 and DC
• Main fabric sewn LIVE: Emerald City Digital Cuddle® and Stripe Digital Cuddle® Purple

Other patterns shown on this episode: 

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Ingredients: 

• Scraps of Cuddle® 3 no smaller than 9” x 9”  (outside) 
• Scraps of Cuddle® 3, laminated cotton or cotton; no smaller than 9” x 9” (lining)
• 9” x 18” fusible woven interfacing, like Pellon SF 101
• 10”+ zipper with plastic teeth 
• 2” length of 1/2” ribbon
• Double-sided basting tape (ByAnnie)
• Stiletto (ByAnnie)
• Fabric Clips (Clover)
• Long, flower head pins (Clover)
• Polyester thread (Mettler) 
• 90/14 Stretch needle (SCHMETZ) 
• Rotary cutter (OLFA) 
• 8”x 12” ruler, optional
• 6” x 12” ruler