Quilt 149: Mini Zipper Bag

Well... as you probably guessed, I haven't done any quilting in quite a while.  Yes... it's been a long dry spell.  But I made a little something today - a mini zipper bag to carry my Tarot cards in.

I found a great tutorial on YouTube for super-easy lined zipper bags:  Here's the Tutorial

At last April's quilt convention, I bought a couple of 1/4 yard strips of lovely brocade fabrics, with the intention of making Tarot bags/pouches - but never got around to doing anything until today.  I want my bags to be quilted, so I grabbed some scraps of homespun and scraps of batting - and quilted them together using a simple wavy-lines stitch pattern on the Bernina Q-Matic:

 I'm pleased that in the photo above you can see that the way the light hits that brocade, you get different colours and highlights of blue, turquoise and purple.

For the lining, I have a sheer purple fabric.  And below you can see the dimensions I'm using:

Zip zip zip!  The hardest part of this project was putting the zipper back together as the woman in the tutorial video shows.. but I finally got it and in a snap my bag was finished!

LOVE IT! There's just enough room for my cards and one of my small silk Tarot cloths.

I'm going to make a few more of these, maybe even sell them!