{"id":70959,"date":"2026-05-21T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70959"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:56:08","slug":"making-the-zip-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/making-the-zip-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Zip It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned, I decided to make this bag instead of the Aneela Hooey bag when visiting Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Zip It Up #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got quite a lot done, but I had enough fabric to sew this one and one other. I had gathered enough of the selected fabrics to make three Book and Tool Folios. I had enough of some, but not all to make the second Zip It Up. I want the recipients to enjoy the fabrics. I found that I needed two full half yards to make the case body. Though I had enough fabric to start the third one, I decided I would make one and, assuming all went well, make the second two in assembly line fashion. <\/p>\n

I looked at Mary’s version and chose to make this bag with two vinyl pockets instead of a mesh pocket and a vinyl pocket. I thought they were more useful for non-sewing activities than one mesh pocket and one vinyl pocket.<\/p>\n

I cut the first vinyl pieces out wrong, so those will become the new windows for future I Spy pouches. I am glad I brought a brand new roll of glitter vinyl<\/a>. Mary has a lifetime supply of clear vinyl, which was a good backup in case I ran out.<\/p>\n

I made good progress despite the need to quilt the fabric. \ud83d\ude41 As I progressed on the project, I decided I wanted to cover the top of the vinyl pockets below the zipper with ribbon, so I brought the pieces home. Since I was ready to assemble the bag, I needed to stop, add the ribbon and then proceed. Another project to finish at home. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned, I decided to make this bag instead of the Aneela Hooey bag when visiting Mary. I got quite a lot done, but I had enough fabric to sew this one and one other. I had gathered enough of the selected fabrics to make three Book and Tool Folios. I had enough of some, … Continue reading “Making the Zip It Up”<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[558],"tags":[513,316,353,255],"class_list":["post-70959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-byannie-pattern","tag-gifts","tag-process","tag-project-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959","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=70959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71078,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions\/71078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}