A New Beginning -2 Side with the zipper

So let us begin.

In this pic you can see that I have placed the basic cloth with the canvas stuck to it on the wrong side.I have kept the lining cloth on the right side of the cloth and stitched along the upper edge.

So now I shall turn the lining cloth toward the other side and put a stitch along the edge for a better finish.I also put a stitch along the other three sides to hold the cloth,canvas and lining in place.

Now take the red cloth and make a single fold and stitch along the edge to give it a neat look.

Now measure 5" from the top of the bag and mark a line for the full width of the bag on the right side.

Fold the red cloth in half along the width,match up the folded line with the line marked on the right side and stitch a small rectangular box as you can see in the picture below.This will be the slit for the small zipper.

Now take the small zipper and close the ends with the lining cloth.

Take the side of the bag we have stitched and cut across in the middle of the rectangular box we have stitched.Cut along the whole width os the rectangular box leaving a small gap on the two ends.You can make a diagonal cut to the stitches at the ends .

Now we insert the red cloth towards the wrong side of the bag and put a stitch along the edge to keep it from moving.

This is how it looks from the right side.

Now comes the tricky part ,we have to place the zipper in the slit and stich alon the edge of the piping to fix the zipper.You can pin it from outside to do the job perfectly.

To finish the pocket for the zipper take the pece of lining cloth we have for the pocket and fix it on the wron side covering the red cloth and the zipper leaving us a zippered pocket on one side.

It was easy wasn't it???