I've been trying to work out the engineering for an ITH purse with the zip in the top for a couple of years. This one is my most successful so far - done in two hoopings.
The third picture is of the inside of the zip, and the fourth is of the whole purse when it came out of the hoop. I then needed to stitch across the corners to create the "box" and stitch round the lining.
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140717I love your bag. I need some advice. I need to do a couple of adult soccer shirts with 7 inch numbers and letters do you know who carries that size of font?
Thank you,
Rhoda Bailey
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by spendlove
29 Jun 2016
Sorry, I have no idea.
If you ask in the community area more people will see your question.
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13243Way to go. What a great little bag. Nothing can stop you.
158717You have accomplished what you set out to do.. That in itself is worthy of praise. I like this and you have done well/Lillian
14579166025417813034Perfect. Love the way you dealt with the ends.
109774B R I L L I A N T!!! Well done Sue, you always come up with a great finished product. Love Chris
234500I am so impressed with your analytical mind and your patience and perseverance. Please keep these projects coming. The bag is wonderful
169064Nice work with the tabs at the end of the zip. Sometimes you just have to do some sewing whether you like it or not. This looks very pretty!
I bought a Husqvarna diskette (#171) called "Pretty Purses in the hoop" years ago. ITH was rather new then and the methods rather simple. The purses were made in the 150x360 hoop (at that time their largest). Either with a zip or a flap. You had to stitch the lining and outside closed on the sewing machine - flap and zip were done ITH.
Not the ITH method non-sewing embroiderers want nowadays but it worked perfectly.
It was done in one hooping, which restricted the size to 150x180 max. for zipped ones and to 150x150 or so if there was a flap.
But they looked just the thing at the time and I made dozens.
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by spendlove
26 Jun 2016
They look really nice. I like the challenge of trying to do as much in the hoop as possible and I did manage to do the tabs on the ends of the zip. I would have needed two hoopings for my usual method to have quilting on both sides.
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