Maker's Home  (2017)  has been quietly waiting for a place to shine. Little fat quarters on a shelf in my closet (out of the sunlight, of course). I am making more of those zipper pouches. My mother-in-law saw some I posted on Facebook and put in a request. Here's one I made the other day using the new Bright World fabrics . They have just come into quilt shops this month: Zipper pouch using Bright World. 9" high x 9.5" wide I honestly measured over and over, but it still is too small for her iPad! Oh, well. She will find a lovely use for this, won't she? Isn't the lining fabric in white and gray perfect? That's why I pulled out Maker's Home. She loves pink and turquoise and we all love flowers.  Here is  Maker's Home  by Natalie Barnes. Yes, these are from 2017 but they are beautiful for today! Maker's Home This pouch is bigger than the pink one and it fits the size of her iPad (which is the size of mine). What do you think? It's 8" h...

Not quilts, but they're made of fabric! I am volunteer teaching at my local library here in Herndon, VA. The man who manages the "Maker's Space" is out of his element, but he's learning! (No sewing experience whatsoever!) He wanted to have a zipper pouch class and I dug into my zipper stash and made some bags. And more bags. And even more! Various zipper pouches I decided I did NOT like putting the zipper in the top (as shown by the brown flower bag at top and light cream w/green on left). I don't like how they fit into the corners and really struggled. Did I think that this would be easy for the "zipper virgins" in class if I, a veteran of sewing for 60 years, couldn't do it? I also didn't like the online tutorials! Way too confusing, way to wordy, and a few were like performances and not instruction! I decided to put the zippers in the front, about 2" down from the top. Very easy! I pulled some fabrics to go with a lone 6" orange ...