First a picture of my latest 3.
They don't look so bad just laying there on the table in the beautiful sunshine. But upon closer inspection, well UGH!
I haven't been able to get the tab ends quite right. The zipper head in #2 broke off because I wasn't following the instructions closely and forgot to have the zipper in the open position before sewing the whole thing together and fiddled with it trying to open it, thus breaking off the zipper head, so now a not so attractive safety pin is attached in it's place. :-(
Number 3 was the best- even though I once again forgot to open the zipper before sewing, it cooperated with little resistance and opened nicely. The tab ends were not so bad. The problem came when I realized I forgot to top stitch around the zipper, and the lining got stuck in the zipper when trying to open and close it. I didn't know at first that's what had happened and tried to rub a little candle wax on the zipper to coax it. Duh! Bath and Body works candles are highly scented and more than just a little oily. Oily wax + recycled old metal zipper = black mess. Yuck!
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