 done it again. Claire from what is now called Stitch Buzz, formerly known Luna Graphics Co. You know her products from the many videos that I've done. Today is the quick pocket template and this is going to make such a big difference when you guys are trying to make welt pockets. And I know welts are one of those things as garment sewers that we're like I don't know if I can do that and if I screw it up it can like kind of you know mess with the entire garment you know that one little pocket not looking perfect can kind of make it look a little bit homemade and the construction just not as perfect as everything else that we've had a ton of practice at. But Claire has come up with this really cool product to help make heads or tails of just how to construct them and how to ensure they turn out beautiful every single time. Let's cut to the tutorial sew along sew with me quilt pocket demonstration. So first things first we've got to cut out our materials and all of that is explained right here in this lovely instruction booklet. We're gonna go through all the steps one by one. So the first step is to cut out your fabric and it says simply right here that you need to cut a template size so one rectangle you can do a little quick pocket or a big quick pocket four and a half inches versus five and a half inches. I am going to illustrate with the five and a half inch one just because it's bigger and it'll show up better on camera. But I need to make I need to cut out fabric that is this size times two one for each side of your welt and then I need to cut a pocket bag and depending on how deep you want your pocket bag to be like how far in you want your hands to go. Those are all illustrated in this beautiful little diagram. So I am going to just make the smallest one because I'm making like a faux illustrative welt. This isn't actually a real project so I'm just gonna make the smallest one and then I also need some interfacing that is the size of this as well. So let me get to cutting all of that out. So I went ahead and cut out what will be our garment whether this be at the back of a pair of pants or the front of a like bomber jacket or any other kind of jacket. This is our garment. This is our welt pocket and this is our pocket bag. Isn't she gonna be beautiful? I'll press that out here in a second. Okay so following along with the instructions there is a variation on the pocket bag so that after you're done sewing your welt pocket the lining will show. So if you want that as an added detail you can certainly do that here but we are gonna move along with this version. Alright so now we need to decide the location of the pockets template opening on our actual garment which is the black with the teacups. And the way that she has you place the pocket windows is to decide where you want your welt pockets. A lot of time this is gonna be marked on your sewing patterns as well so don't fret about this too much. If your pattern was designed with the welt pocket already that's already on there. If not then you can place your pocket. You can do it obviously parallel to the hem. You can do it at an angle you know if you're doing like a bomber jacket or something. For illustrated purposes we're just gonna make this nice and simple. We're gonna do it in the center of our two garments. So iron a crease in the center of where you want your pocket to be. So if you want your pocket here iron a crease right along the middle here. If you want your pocket here iron a crease along the bias so on and so forth. So we have our crease now you can barely see it but it's it's there. It doesn't need to be like permanently pressed. We're just looking for a reference guide to where to place this. So the pocket template has little notches. One is there and one is there and there's a blue line that goes right through the center of the bumblebee and you are gonna line that up with your crease that you just made wherever you want your pocket. You need at least an inch along the top here so that you have enough sewing room. So let's put ours here and now you are going to trace around the center little window. Okay and once you have your inner box traced now you need to grab some pins and we are gonna place the pins in each of these four little corners here of the template. Actually let's put them here that would be a little bit easier to line up. Alright so we're gonna stick them in the halfway marks and this is to give us a guide to where this template goes on the wrong side of your fabric like so. So now we've got four little anchoring points and we've got a little box. So we're gonna flip this all over and again you can see our anchoring points. You can see the center crease so line everything back up again best you can. Maybe straight pins without a head would be easier. I have those but didn't think about it for this. Okay anyways so now we want to trace this box again. Alright and you can see we've got our little box there. Okay next we need to set this aside and get the template the hole marked on the pocket bag as well. Okay and then you want to line up your pocket template with the top edge of the wrong side of the pocket bag and when you do that you're gonna draw in and I'm switching to a marker so you guys can see that better hopefully. Draw that box in like so. Alright so now we've got a box on the right side of our garment, a box on the wrong side of our garment, and a box on the wrong side of the pocket bag lining. Okay next we've got to get this interfacing which we cut out earlier applied to the wrong side of the garment so you simply just center it over the box that you made in the previous steps and iron it on according to the manufacturer's instructions. Now we need to match the windows of the little boxes that we made so the so the they're right sides together and I find the easy way to do that is to put a pin through this corner matching it up with its corresponding corner underneath and slide the pin in until it can't go anymore and then kind of like tack that down and then go to the opposite corner take your pin put it through the corner match it up with the corner of the box underneath slide it in flatten it all out and anchor it down and then you can double check the other two boxes just to make sure everything is lined up right but it should be now that you've done the first two. All right now you've got your two pieces with the box completely lined up in the center. Next you're gonna go to your machine and you were gonna sew around this box entirely. Okay so we've got our box here and to really test how accurately I did everything we can flip this over and see that it pretty much lines up exactly with the box that's under the interfacing so I did a decent job there happy about that. Okay your quick pocket template also comes with this little doodad that goes in the middle of the template like so and this has markings on it as well can you see those dots and slashes and that is so that you can mark your cutting lines. So you take this little guy you line it up with the stitching that you've just done and you put a dot in the dot and a line in the slash like so isn't that so cool it's just incredibly thoughtful. Okay so there's that and now this is going to be your cutting line and you know what you take you have the little little triangle that gets made little triangle that gets made and then you are gonna cut through all of this like so. So let's cut and normally if I'm using like actual fashion fabric this is the part where I'm having a near heart attack because you do cut through your fabric and it just feels wrong it feels like there is no way that this is actually what I'm supposed to be doing but you are and you see how it works out in the end but you want to try and cut really close to those corners the closest you can cut to that stitching the better your pocket bag will be even if you wanted to grab some like embroidery scissors or something super super sharp that would be a good idea to help you with that but you can see that we have cut through the triangles as well as the line down the middle now we are gonna push all of this through the garment so that it all appears on the wrong side like so and this is where you can really tell if you did a good job cutting because you'll see if there's any like folding or buckling this is where it will appear I mean you can press out a little bit of it but if it's really bad go back in and snip closer to those stitching lines okay now we are going to pull this back and you can see this little itty bitty seam allowance that we have here we are actually gonna sew we're gonna under stitch essentially we're under stitching the seam allowance to the long sides of the window with the zipper foot so the seam allowances get sewn to the lining that way they all roll to the wrong side naturally and you don't have any of that ever showing so I'm gonna go do that real quick so now this is the right side of our garment we have a huge gaping hole in it and then on the back we have our pocket bag that has been under stitched you will be able to see that stitching but when we close up the pocket then from the inside of your garment you won't be able to see this you won't be able to see any of that any more but we have to put our welts in obviously you could do this in a contrasting color would be really fun contrasting fabric maybe a metallic something whatever but traditionally they're all gonna be the same I'm using a separate fabric because I want you guys to be able to see the differences of the different pieces and what exactly it is that I'm doing all right so the first step to deal with the welt pockets is to baste them together right sides together so for each side of your garment for each pocket that you're making you need two of the welts which were cut to be the size of our template remember okay so we're gonna baste down the very very center of our welts so we're gonna baste this at one and a quarter inches you can also feel free to line these up then place your center notches that are on your template the blue lines that are on your template you can line those up across the length of your welt and then draw in a little line and that is what you can use to as a guide for your basting okay and once you've got your basting in you are gonna fold these you have like four sections now and you're gonna fold these so that the wrong sides are together and this to me was one of the more brilliant parts of this tutorial because inevitably if you don't do it this way your center welts seam it it gets a little bit wonky so I love this little trick for making sure that that center of your pocket is nice and straight okay so she and the instructions is gonna have you center this welt the little seam that you just made in the center of this opening pin it all down flip it over and then temporarily baste it like with hand stitching or with steam a seam I on the other hand think it's easier to go ahead and lay down your steam a seam because you know the steam a seam is gonna be on either edge of the opening right then you want to peel away the backing like so both sides okay and then you want to center your welts and it's going to line up with the top of the pocket bag because that's where we put the hole for the pocket bag remember so I just lined it up with that again and now I'm going to go to the iron and press this down and make sure that the steam a seam stays down all right and you can see once you do that you still got your welts centered and if you've done all your measuring correctly from the beginning then that should be no problem doing it the way I said versus how it is in the instruction booklet okay speaking of the instruction booklet she provides three different ways for you to finish off your wealth which I just think is very comprehensive and really is going to cover any kind of wealth pocket that you could possibly possibly need so you have the invisible stitches you have the top stitching and you have the stitch in the ditch which is also going to allow you to insert a zipper if you want to zipper inside your wealth pocket as well so you're going to pick the method that you want to do and follow the few instructions that are there I am just going to do the invisible stitches because that is what I do most often and I think that's what you guys are most often going to do so I will show you how to do this one but the other two options are really easy to do as well and this is how it's done it's super super simple okay so you're going to pull all of this back you've got your welts attached to your pocket bag that's the steam assume holding that in place and you pull this back to reveal you've already got two lines of stitching one is the stitching from step five which was the box that you did around then the next one is your under stitching and then the the very very edge where you've only got this little little bit let me show you with a pen this little bit right here this edge right here is where you were going to sew the pocket bag and the welts to your main fabric and you were going to start on a long edge and go all the way around like this pulling the fabric back and then pulling the fabric back again you are going to reveal your little triangles and you were going to sew right along the edge of this triangle right here to hold the triangle part down and then you'll sew the bottom part of all of this and then you'll come around and do your final triangle on the other side this is not all done I want to say before I go to the sewing machine this is not all done in one rectangle you're going to do one side and then the triangle and then another side and the triangle you can do both sides and then both triangles whatever order you want them to do can't be done it's not one continuous box I just want to be clear about that okay so next you're gonna take your seam ripper and you're gonna remove your basting stitches like I explained earlier just be very careful you've only basted them in so they should come out pretty easily all right great and you would obviously take the time and care to to pull out all those little threads but for the sake of time I'm going to move right along and so the last step is for us to take our pocket bag this little guy that's hanging down currently we don't have a pocket at all we've still got a hole so that's that doesn't serve us that well but once we do this now all of a sudden we have a pocket so you are gonna fold this up right sides together and you were going to stitch along all three sides and if you were jacket or pants or whatever is online obviously feel free to search these edges I'm just gonna sew them because if this is just like a fake garment but you can definitely search them if you want them to look pretty on the inside all right I went ahead and gave it a really good press as well and you can see we've got an adorable little well pocket which if we wanted to stick anything into it it would stay oh I've got to I've got to like figure out a way to use this right obviously every time I try and find fabrics that are like they don't go together somehow miraculously they kind of look cute together um anyways here is the back side again nice and tidy if you wanted to search your seams it would be even more so but I mean it's just kind of genius and so I told you guys it's really really cool right I don't know how Claire's brain works and how she's able to simplify these things and utilizing these acrylic tools make it so much easier than the regular way but but she does and it's awesome so hopefully you guys will run out and grab one of these quick pocket templates it comes again with the instruction booklet and then two templates one four and a half inch and one five and a half inch so you have your options there and get to making well pockets you can add them to jackets to the back of pants that's a very common place like in ready to wear you can add them to like a shirt if you want to do them on your lapel you can really put them anywhere that a regular pocket a regular packed pocket would go and they're gonna look beautiful with this template it's awesome so check the description box for a link and a coupon code for all of Claire's templates and rulers my code is good site-wide no minimum so head on over there and check it all out and that's gonna do it for me today but I will see you all soon thanks for watching bye