One of our favorite pattern companies, By Annie, has come out with a new pattern called “A Place For Everything”. You’ll love this spacious, stylish organizer with lots of zippered pockets to hold everything you need. Use it to store your sewing machine/serger feet and accessories, tools, notions and more! This case features a handle at the top for easy carrying. A double-slide zipper closure provides safe, secure storage and easy access to all your supplies. Removable pocket pages with pocket arrangements in four styles feature zippered pockets to hold all your supplies, electronic gear or other treasures. The clear vinyl pockets provide an easy view of everything in the bag. Pick some pretty coordinating fabrics for this project and you’ll have a wonderful carry-all to show off when you bring it to classes! This will be a two day class at a cost of $20. Please let us know if you would like us to order you a pattern, otherwise you may order a pattern online at
www.byannie.com for a cost of $9.95.
There is also a finishing kit available for this project that includes the mesh fabric, vinyl, Velcro, a 40” double-slide zipper for the outside of the case and a package of zippers-by-the-yard for the inside pockets. I purchased the finishing kit and I highly recommend it! Spending the time searching for all of those items separately is time I would rather be sewing! Hope you can join us at Schiller’s!
Supplies:
- “A Place for Everything” pattern from By Annie
- 1 ¼ yard main fabric for the body of bag and the pocket pages lining
- 1 ¼ yard fabric for the lining of the bag
- 1 yard of contrasting fabric for the binding of the bag and pages,carrying handle and zipper pulls
- 36” x 58” piece of Soft and Stable batting (let us know if you would like us to have this in the store ready for class)
- 3 ½” x 6 1/2” piece of heavyweight card board or foam core board
- “A place for Everything” finishing kit from By Annie or purchase separately:
- A 14” x 54” piece of heavyweight vinyl
- A 14” x 18” piece of mesh fabric
- A 38” or longer double-slide luggage style zipper
- Anywhere from 8 to 12 (12”) zippers (depending on how many vinyl pockets you want per page) non-metal 2 yards of ¾” sew in Velcro
- Sewing machine in good working order
- Sewing machine feet to bring: walking foot, 1/4” foot, teflon o roller foot for sewing the vinyl, all-purpose foot, stitch-in-the ditch foot, zipper foot
- Size 100/16 jeans denim needle
- Size 80/12 universal needle
- Thread and bobbins wound to match fabrics
- Fabric glue stick
- Ruler, marking pen or chalk, scissors, pins, seam ripper, etc.
Cutting:
- Using 1 yard of the main fabric, 1 yard of the lining fabric and 1 yard of the Soft and Stable batting, make a sandwich with the right sides of the fabric facing out and the batting in between.
- Quilt this sandwich as desired with stippling or by drawing grid lines 2” apart on a 45 or 60 degree angle. See diagram A.
From the quilted sandwich, cut: See diagram B.
- (1) 7” x 39” strip for the zipper side strips
- (1) 28” X 16” rectangle for the front and back of bag and the center side strip
- (1) 28” x 23” rectangle for the pocket pages
From remaining main fabric cut:
- (2) 4 ½” x 2” pieces for zipper side strip bindings
- (1) 4 ½” x 9 ¼” piece for the stabilizer cover
From contrast fabric cut:
- (1) 24” x 24” square for binding
- (3) 2” x 13 ½” pieces for inner mesh pocket bindings
- (1) 6” x 11” piece for the carrying handle
- (2) 1” x 12” pieces for the zipper pulls
From remaining Soft and Stable cut:
- (1) 11” x 1 3/8” piece for the handle
From heavyweight vinyl cut:
- (4) 5 5/8” x 14” pieces
- (6) 3 ¾” x 14” pieces
From mesh fabric cut:
From the ¾” Velcro cut:
- (1) 3” strip
- (2) 8” strips (hook or rough portion only)
- (4) 12” strips
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