{"id":60804,"date":"2023-11-16T07:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=60804"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:35:01","slug":"thinking-about-zippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/thinking-about-zippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Zippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned, I am making another Kit Supply Tote. For some reason, I am thinking a lot about this bag. Sometimes, making the pattern a second time gives me new insights.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, I worked on the zippers in addition to the pockets.<\/p>\n

The bag requires one separating zipper. I am getting more experience with them after the UCAB<\/a> and my own Kit Supply Tote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Zipper<\/a>
Zipper tape at 90 degrees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some designers have makers fold back the zipper tape at a 90 degree angle. I have always found this problematic. Over the weekend, looking at the pattern, I realized that I didn’t have to totally secure the piece so it would never come out. I only had to secure it enough to keep it in place until I sewed the zipper in. I sewed a few stitches just where the open edge of the 90 degree folded piece. I had no problems with the zipper tape sticking under the presser foot and developing a thread blob.  <\/p>\n

What a revelation!<\/p>\n

Now, I just need to install them into the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned, I am making another Kit Supply Tote. For some reason, I am thinking a lot about this bag. Sometimes, making the pattern a second time gives me new insights. Over the weekend, I worked on the zippers in addition to the pockets. The bag requires one separating zipper. I am getting more experience … Continue reading “Thinking about Zippers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[353,255,341,357],"class_list":["post-60804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-process","tag-project-bag","tag-supplies","tag-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60869,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60804\/revisions\/60869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}