{"id":70632,"date":"2026-05-01T07:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70632"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:09:49","slug":"book-pouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/book-pouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Pouch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reminder popped up for the birthday of a librarian friend of mine. I still have some leftover bits of quilted book fabric from when I made covers for the leaves of our dining room table<\/a>. On the spur of the moment and despite all the other projects I have going on, I decided to make her a pouch. After some thought, I decided to use the Bristol pouch pattern<\/a> from Center Street Quilts.<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a>
Book pouch in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used the pattern as a guide rather than following the exact directions since I didn’t have the exact pieces or sizes. This would never stand the test of an experienced bagmaker and it isn’t a terrible pouch, but for a non-sewing person, it is ok.<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a>
Book Pouch – zipper tab technique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used it as a bit of a test for a couple of techniques. One was the zipper tab<\/a>, which is a technique that IG has been shoving at me through their “you really should follow this” algorithm. I was pleased with how it came out, though I had to rip and watch the video a few times and I think I have to measure the size of the future zipper tab more exactly next time. The video (reel) doesn’t have sizes.<\/p>\n

I also used a bit of a larger zipper (#5) that was extra rather than a dress zipper. It is a pretty zipper with rainbow teeth and looks good. <\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a>
Book Pouch top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Center Street patterns usually include binding inside seams and this pattern is no different. I found them to be really thick and probably should have tried to cut away some of the batting in the seam allowance.<\/p>\n

I’ll be done soon and can send it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reminder popped up for the birthday of a librarian friend of mine. I still have some leftover bits of quilted book fabric from when I made covers for the leaves of our dining room table. On the spur of the moment and despite all the other projects I have going on, I decided to … Continue reading “Book Pouch”<\/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":[558],"tags":[541,316,488],"class_list":["post-70632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-center-street-quilts-pattern","tag-gifts","tag-pouch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70632","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=70632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70686,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70632\/revisions\/70686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}