What Size To Cut For 8" Zipper Pouch

(Alarm: information technology'southward nearly to go mathy upwardly in here!)

Only, before we go in that location, have I mentioned how much I enjoy sewing custom orders? I love the challenge of figuring out a new type of project that I haven't tackled earlier. I get to add together some new skills to my sewing toolbox, and I get to (hopefully) make someone happy at the same time... win-win, in my books.

This time, a friend asked me to sew a attachment pouch to hold her essential oil droppers and roller bottles. She gave me the dimensions of her bottles, asked only that the pouch be pretty and close with either a zipper or a fold, and include some sort of insert to keep the glass bottles separated and protected when she throws them in her pocketbook.

I found excellent tutorials for fully-lined boxy zipper pouches at Pretty Modernistic and Pinkish Stitches. I flipped dorsum and forth between them while sewing this 1, just because I establish it useful to accept different photos and descriptions of the steps as I went along. The only trouble I had was with figuring out how to construct the bag so that it concluded up the size I wanted it to exist (the tutorials were for slightly bigger pouches than I needed). After doing lots of math and sketching and reading, I came across the Magic Formula for Indigestible Zip Pouches posted deep in the comments of Pretty Modern'southward tutorial. So, without further ado, the "magic" formula for making a boxy attachment pouch any size is:

Is that confusing plenty? Ha. The graphic is a scrap of a mess, but I wanted to share it since information technology took me the meliorate role of an hour to track down the formula and then figure out how to use it to get the size of pouch I was later. Now, hopefully, you won't have to (equally long as it doesn't take you an hour to figure out what I'm talking nearly!). Here'due south how I did my calculations:

I wanted my finished pouch to measure out 7"(50) x iii"(W) 10 4"(H), and I'd use a seam assart of 1/ii".

So, I cut my two outer and two lining pieces 12" x 8", which I calculated equally follows:

Length

= L + H + 2 x seam allowance

= 7" + iv" + (two x 1/2")

= 12"

Width

= H + Due west + two x seam allowance

= iv" + 3" + (2 ten 1/2")

= 8"

Box Corners

= 1/2 H

= 1/2 (iv")

= 2" upwards from corner signal

Once you accept your pieces cut out, you lot just have to follow one of many groovy tutorials out at that place for sewing a lined boxy zipper pouch, remembering to box the corners using the measurement you worked out for your size of pouch.

The "magic formula" worked like a charm for me. My finished pouch measures approximately 7" long x iii" broad 10 4" loftier, but what I was aiming for. I used a fiddling piece of leather equally a attachment pull emphasis, which I love alongside the Cotton wool + Steel material I used for the outside and lining of the bag. I also made iii little inserts to hold the essential oil bottles, which should work well (and look cute, likewise).

I listed it in my Etsy shop for her to buy - my first Etsy listing, and my first auction! I'k aiming to get a few more things listed in the coming weeks, so hopefully information technology's just the first of many. Next on the learning list - production photography...

What Size To Cut For 8" Zipper Pouch,

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