 Hey guys, how are you today? So we are here with sewing one-on-one obviously and We are gonna make some little pencil bags today. Now. I know we've already done a pencil bag before this one's a little different so This is one of the Michaels recollections creative year planners that they've come out with recently of course I couldn't resist not long ago buying one and One of the things I love about it was the fun accessories they have that go along with this including this pre-punched Small zipper pocket that you could put oops. Sorry that you could put You know pencils or washi tape or something and I just you know I love the gold dots and Obviously, I love the white and gold because that's the one I bought They also though had This pencil bag and this pencil bag is really fun because Not only do you have a small pencil bag here a zipper pocket, but and it is lined by the way the one It is lined. It's not the seams aren't finished We're not gonna line ours But anyway, it also has a pocket here on the outside So you could put things inside the zipper part and you could also stick a couple pens on the outside The whole thing has elastic why? because You can put it Right on your journal cover like that. Who doesn't love that now? Not long ago when I was at the Japanese dollar store near me Daiso. I realized they have their own version it's a little bit smaller and Nair were this way and a little shorter. It's only a dollar fifty. They Michaels one was more But it would work and it also has the elastic to fit over the journal covers So I thought maybe for those of you, especially who want to make one for yourselves Or you can't afford to go buy one or you don't have a Japanese dollar store near you Why don't I show you how to make one? Both of them are nice. I Would love this one if I'm flying somewhere because it is smaller and it would force me to limit my supplies I'm bringing so I have less. I'm carrying through the airport that being said this one would be more convenient because it's bigger So I think we're going to make something like this And we're not going to go too far with this because I might need to take measurements I have different kinds of fabric here You're of course going to need a sewing machine. You're going to need a sewing machine with put my reading glasses on You're going to need a sewing machine with a denim needle You're going to need some fabric. You're going to need some zippers. These are And I have another one here Wasn't sure what color I wanted to use so I have this one and I think they're all This one I know is a seven inch because it's still in the package But yeah, these are all seven inch zippers. So I do recommend about a seven inch zipper You want some fabric that's going to be kind of on the thick side like denim These this is denim scraps from some pants I had to hem for myself because you know short girl problems. You can't find pants that are the right length and This is duck cloths. It's an outdoor type fabric and it's kind of thick like denim So it would work you also could just use can't plain canvas or their canvas This is just canvas and it comes in, you know, plain colors. You can get it printed Go to the fabric store and look for these kind of fabrics or get out some thicker like denim scraps or something And I think we're going to make one out of denim and the duck cloth today So the first thing we're going to do is cut some fabric Oh It's really heavy The duck cloth was only two dollars and fifty cents for this piece at Hobby Lobby and I got a quarter of a yard times the width of the fabric, which is about I don't know 30 It's about 45 inches. So that makes that makes a few pencil bags Or a small journal cover All right, so the first thing we want to do is move all our stuff and you oh, and you're gonna need some elastic Okay, so the Michaels one Let's see if I can grab this about bumping the camera oops Okay, so the Michaels one measures about seven and a half inches By about two and a half inches so we're gonna cut two We're gonna cut one rectangle That is eight inches by six inches Yeah, I'm not my ruler here with the edge of the fabric Grab a pencil Or other mark making tool if you have a water soluble You know fabric marking pencil you might want to use that okay We'll not use that one because that one has a broken lead Try a different one. Maybe I have one that will actually write. This is a Maypen helix Pencil love that company. Oh Yeah, that pencil works great Okay, so I'm gonna mark off two different places a few inches apart for six inches and then I can draw a line Then I'm gonna take this has this is the finished Edge of the manufactured edge of the fabric which is called the selvedge and I'm I know that's straight and true So I'm gonna line it up with the edge that I just cut and that will give me a Square-ish piece of fabric and tell me which of the short ends is Square and true in which one isn't and the one on my left is square and true one on my right is not So I'm gonna take my ruler and line it up with a square edge and Then mark off eight inches Again draw a line So now we have this piece of fabric and when we fold it in half We start to get the idea of The bag right now the way they did it is they have a fold down here and That's all well and good, but it makes putting the zipper in a tad on the difficult side Not impossible Just difficult well different. I won't say different. I shouldn't say difficult. It's different We're gonna try it, but if it's too hard for you feel free to cut two smaller pieces Then I just did leave yourself a little bit of seam allowance on the bottom and I will kind of I'll try to show you away or talk you through a way of putting the zipper in a different way But try this way first because I think you might like it now. We need a little piece for the outside pocket. So I'm gonna fold our main piece in half and bring my fabric back out and line it up here and Again with my pencil Mark out Another rectangle and it's a little bit too long But that's okay. I've got lots of this fabric to play with Now this is just plain old graphite pencil. So it should come out with water But I'm using very light pencil strokes so that if it shows I'm not too concerned And I'm keeping them to the edge so that one, you know, really when I sew the bag, it's not gonna show Okay, so you're gonna need these And I think we're gonna be good to go Let's try it. I haven't done a prototype yet. So we're gonna just wing it on camera and if I screw it up screw it up All right, I'm gonna change my thread to thread my thread my friend my friend To something that's a cream color because I have dark blue in here right now and that's too dark throw that away So first let's take out the bobbin Whoops which tried to roll away And then I'm gonna put either white or cream colored in the bobbin ideally your bobbin thread should match Your spool thread in the top here They should match. I don't know if I want to take time to wind a new bobbin So and it looks like the cream colored bobbin doesn't have too much thread on it But the white one has a ton so we'll go with the white when you put your bobbin in if you tug on the thread It should go clockwise FYI there's a little sewing tip Read your instructions on your machine So you know the proper procedures for threading your machine and which way the bobbin should go in thread is stuck Oh, it's stuck under the machine. Okay, put the blue one aside put the beige one in Cream color and re-thread my machine helps if I turn the light on Now your little inexpensive machines are great for practicing your mixed media stuff Like the genome that I have but one of my gripes about it is it doesn't have a light bulb. So You might need to put like a little spotlight if you have one of those so you can see what you're doing Alrighty now we're all good and ready. I can close that up. I am gonna need my zipper foot Okay, we're gonna need the zipper foot now the zipper foot is Looks a little different on each machine this is the one for my foth machine and This side little indentation is where the needle sits so that you can get the foot and the stitching right up close to the zipper teeth. I need to change this back to a Straight stitch because I was doing a zigzag earlier for my hemp pants hemming adventure. I Think on this one. I'm gonna use the white zipper Yeah, first we're gonna do the outside pocket So I don't want it the full length of the zipper pouch or the yeah the zipper pouch I want to have a couple inches shorter So I'm gonna whack off a Little less than what I want for the height of the pocket and then I'm going to hem that top edge I'm gonna roll it and Roll it again, and I'm just gonna finger press it like that and hold it and stitch it down Now if you need to you can press it or and or pin it if that works better for you But I'm just gonna finger press it push it down roll it twice so that raw edges hidden and then put it Right side down on the sewing machine I'm gonna line up that top folded edge of the new hem with up the edge of the presser foot and Then I'm just gonna Go back and forth at the beginning in the end You don't have to go fast go slow Okay, and for those of you who are wondering this is a real-time video. It's not a short one. I'm not gonna Fast forward through anything That doesn't serve you all went for a sewing tutorial. So now we have The start of our pocket right so I'm gonna take our outer fabric and I'm gonna finger press the folded edge So that I have a folded mark Where that center point is? Which is important now I'm going to line up right sides together The little outside pocket that we just made I'm lining it up here in this corner Along this bottom edge in this side and then I'm gonna flip it over You might want to pin it I'm doing it this and I'm thinking you know, I think you need a pen So I would recommend pinning it at least once so things don't slide around all right so flip it over so you can see that folded part and then stitch on The fold when you feel that top of that little pocket Go back and forth a couple times Now if you cut your pocket piece correctly, you had about a quarter of an inch That will hang over the fold with which to do this little seam that we just did if that makes you nervous Not having that much of a seam allowance then cut this piece a little wider a little taller So now if we take this and we flip it over now we have the beginnings of a pocket We're gonna have our pocket here Now it's time to put the zipper in this is the part that makes you all nervous I know so the first thing we're gonna do is change out our presser foot I'm gonna put in my zipper foot make sure that the needle is not gonna hit the foot I can adjust the spacing on my needle to be Farther to the right or the left if I need to on this machine And I can go just a little bit towards the right or just a little bit towards the left Not all machines. Are you going to be able to do that? But on this particular one I can So now I'm going to line up my zipper Leaving so I'm gonna center it here in the Along this long edge of the fabric and I'm gonna stick At least one pin in it probably two This is just a random bucket of pins by the way if anybody's wondering yes These are corsage pins that I pulled out. It's literally just a random bucket of vintage pins Some dressmaker's pins some corsage pins So now we're gonna sew Along this part of the zipper We're not gonna get too close to the teeth because if you get too close to the center of the zipper teeth And your zipper won't open you want to be about a quarter to an eighth of an inch away from the zipper teeth And I need to adjust my presser foot because my zipper teeth are gonna be on the wrong side of that I was on the right side to begin with. Oh my goodness. See you guys are seeing all the all the issues It's easier to just do this. It's right about where I want this stitching to go Now remember not to sew over your pins Just go slow. You don't have to go fast do go back and forth at the beginning in the end and Flip the zipper over Make sure that you've caught the pocket fabric in your seam Which I have Make sure your zipper still opens which it does Okay, and you want to open it at least part way because if you don't you aren't going to be able to get your bag open after we do Finish making the bag. It's true. So you want to do it have it this way now So generally when you use this kind of presser zipper foot You have to change it around when you do the other side of the zipper, which is kind of a pain in the neck There is a different kind of zipper foot that you don't have to do that with FYI. I knew there was another piece of string there somewhere. I just couldn't find it All right, so now we have something that looks like this Kind of looks like a hot mess, right? It's not really though So you can it's not done yet, but you can turn it right side out and You can see That now it's starting to look like the zipper pocket, right? So we need to open it back up again And we need to turn it back out the other way now it's time to put the elastic in elastic elastic so I'm going to use this other bag as a like a prototype for how long to cut the elastic and This one is about that long It doesn't help you. I know well done. It's about Six and a half inches seven inches. I would cut seven inches Of course, if you're working making this for a larger journal or planner You may need to cut your elastic a little longer, but you know it does stretch So I do like this little detail they here they have here on either end of the elastic So we have these little scraps, right? So we're going to take one of our scraps and we're going to wrap it around The a lap one of the ends of the elastic I'm actually just going to just whack off a piece here There we go. So we're I took a like any piece. That's like an inch and a half long and I'm just wrapping it around One end of the elastic I'm going to fold up the edge put the elastic in this center Bring one edge over take the other edge and fold it will fold the raw edge over and and pull it in there We go Make sure all those little ends are tucked in You don't have to do this you could sew the elastic right in I just think this is cute I'm going to go over it a few times and cut the threads and And then You're going to have this You have this hanging open. We want to stitch that closed So I'm going to make sure it's all folded in together And then just stitch that down and you notice I haven't changed the foot It is possible to leave them zipper foot in I Wouldn't recommend necessarily recommend it if you're not used to your machine So now we have that That's cute and just decide whatever side you like prettier. That's prettier and that's going to be the outside Whatever you do though when you do the other end of the elastic do it the same way So I'm going to cut off another hunk of fabric Do the other end so that's the stitch where we haven't wrapped the fabric now wrapped around the elastic And there's going to be some stress on that so you want to really go back and forth over at a couple of times fix that little hand pressed Folded in edge and I'm going to line it up. I don't think I held the thread very well and it got all tangly hold on That's this is what happens when you don't hold your threads at the beginning of your stitching He gets all these kind of crazy knots It also can happen if your machine's not threaded correctly, so if you have issues like this stop take a deep breath and Check things for me. I have all this craziness going on down here, so it's all insane Ha, I already have like a mountain of thread. Okay. Let's try that again. That was much better Okay, so now we have our elastic piece and we have our pocket So now we need to put our elastic piece Inside of our pocket so that It sticks out on one end and it's centered both length wise and With wise and then I'm going to pin it Again with a ginormous corsage pins because it's what I have so we're going to use it and then Over here. It doesn't have to be perfect for we so It looks pretty good So now when you stitch this we're going to stitch along this edge and stitch it closed again Make sure your zipper is open Pull your zipper teeth So they're up like this and then we're going to stitch down through everything And we're just it stitching on the little tab end of the zipper and I'm actually going to change my foot again because it'll be easy a little easier with the other presser foot on The regular one There we go And I'm just lining up the edge of the fabric with the edge of the Zipper foot and that's giving me about a quarter of an inch seam allowance and that's plenty Pin it out now when I get to the part where the elastic is going to be held in I'm going to go over that a couple of times I'm going to trim the edge that's sticking out I'm going to trim and add a little bit of an angle towards where I stitched Oops at a little bit of an angle towards where I stitched to cut off some of the bulk up here I'm going to trim at an angle going up from the edge of where I stitched right here To trim away a little bit of the bulk in the corner And then I'm going to just do a quick little zigzag along that edge just to provide some Stay stay stitching power so that the fabric doesn't like unravel all over the place Okay, now let's do the other side again lining up the edge of the fabric with the edge of the foot Whoops Back and forth pull the pin out for a string because you know there's strings now everywhere on my table All right cut off the threads All the loose crazy threads off. I'll try to show it now on camera. See this part sticking out cut that off See right here where you have all this sticking out and the stitching is right there So I'm going to have my scissors angled So that they're like a eighth of an inch away from the stitching but facing up and I'm going to cut a bunch of this bulk off I think that just went into my paint water And I'm going to do something similar over here and cut some of this corner off on this end But don't be careful. Don't cut your stitching. I think that went in my paint water. Oh well Now again, we're going to do the zigzag here The zigzag is optional. You don't have to do that. All right, so now we're ready to see how it looks So I'm going to start with the bottom corner and I'm going to push it out And then the upper one You might need a tool to help you poke all the corners out Now if you don't trim some of that zipper extra zipper away, then it won't poke out as nice as if you do Chop it off. We have a pencil pouch. That is super cute. I love it So if you use a stiffer fabric then even this or you Add interfacing to it, it'll be more like this one. See this one's a little bit floppy And that's just because there's nothing in it. I'm okay with that. I love this fabric, but look Cute Yeah, let's see how it fits on the journal So once you get it on the journal and you get pencils in it, it's going to be fine So isn't that cute and then you can stick Pencils here stuff inside the pouch. I love that. So there you go Should we make another one? Don't make pen away. So I think I'm going to make some more of these because they are super cute And you can use anything you can use extra denim. You can use fabric that you have laying around anything If you're using fabric like this denim, this is stretchy. So it's probably not The best choice that being said if you can get it to work It might be nice because it is stretchy You can probably if you can cut it the right way get it to stretch So you can get even more stuff in the pencil bag So I think I'm going to make some more of these but I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do in making your own Pencil bag to fit right on your journal or your planner. So I hope this is something that gives you some great ideas Don't forget then in my facebook group in the sister groups. We have the year of my uh Sorry my life of self-expression 2017 journaling program coming up that revolves around Really just being mindful of ourselves taking care of ourselves documenting our life and Taking it with us when we go places. I use mine as it not only a You know every day documentation kind of thing or every, you know month But I also take it with me when I go out of town and this kind of little pencil bag would be perfect on these planners We're going to have monthly lessons and hints and tips and tricks But you only get them if you're over in the facebook group So you have to join one of the facebook groups My group is in the description below and this little pocket would be great on your journals So give it some thought and uh, I hope you have a phone with it If you have any questions, let me know send me an email or a private message or make a comment below Think about supporting my channel by shopping in the atc shop and Or buying a signed copy of my book or pre-ordering some of the new stamps And uh, that's it for today. Go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys