Quilt As You Go Zippity-Do-Done Lunch Box Sewing Tutorial
Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box Sewing Tutorial! Follow along as we stitch an Insulated Lunch Box featuring Zippity-Do-Done, the easy tuck-and-sew zipper solution! Plus SAVE 30% OFF our Exclusive Quilt As You Go Zippity-Do-Done Bundle Boxes at ShopNZP.com!
Watch Stitch it! Sisters Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box Program 310 with Deanna Springer and Guest Jill Repp from June Tailor and learn learn Jill’s easy sewing tips for sewing her Quilt As You Go Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box!
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Watch Stitch it! Sisters Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box Program 310 with Deanna Springer and guest Jill Repp from June Tailor. Follow along as they stitch a beautiful Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box.
Stitch it! Sisters Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box Sewing Tutorial
by the Stitch it! Sisters
Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-DoneInsulated Lunch BoxSupplies
Exclusive Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-DoneBundle Box by the Stitch it! Sisters
June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy
June Tailor’s Fabric Glue Stick
Schmetz Machine Quilting Needles Size 90
Clover’s 7-3/4″ Bordeaux Ultimate Shears
Clover’s Straight Tailors Awl Stiletto
Clover’s 3/4″ Bias Tape Maker (18mm)
Prepare your fabrics! Pre-shrink fabrics by steaming and pressing. Then, stabilize fabrics for the sewing process by pressing and starching fabrics with Quilter’s Starch Savvy.
- Following instructions included with Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Bundle Box, cut fabric squares and rectangles.
Optional: Use June Tailor’s June Tailor’s Fabric Glue Stick or Quilt Basting Spray to spray baste substrate to backing fabric!
Assemble Quilt As You Go: Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box
- Place outer fabric and lining fabric right sides together. Sandwich wrong side of lining fabric to unprinted side of one bag substrate. Make sure fabric completely covers printed area.
- Stitch around dotted line using a 2.5 stitch length through all three layers, be sure not to stitch top zipper edge. NOTE: Do not iron.
- Repeat step above with second bag substrate.
- Trim layers on solid cutting line.
- Using Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner, turn lunch bag right side out.
- Optional: Using Clover’s Ultimate Quilt ‘n Stitch Presser foot add straight line machine quilting to insulated lunch box.
Create Handle
- Fold 4″ fabric strips in half wrong sides together, press.
- Open fabric strip and fold raw edges of fabric to center, press.
- Insert cotton webbing into folded fabric strip.
- Stitch both sides of fabric handle long edges.
- Place handle 6″ in from outer edges, pin.
- Topstich handle ends to outer lunch box – stitching along handle sides and 3-1/2″ from top of lunch box.
- Insert upper front assembly into one long edge opening of Zippity-Do-Done. Edgestitch along long edge of Zippity-Do-Done–stitching through all layers.
- Optional: Baste assembly to Zippity-Do-Done using June Tailor’s Fabric Glue Stick.
- Optional: Add decorative stitching, ribbon trim, or fabric trim embellishment to Zippity-Do-Done.
- We used Clover’s 3/4″ Bias Tape Maker (18mm) and a crosswise fabric strip.
- Topstitch fabric trip to Zippity-Do-Done, baste stitch zipper ends.
- Open zipper a couple of inches.
- Fold lunch bag right sides together, align bottom lunch bag seam, stitch.
- Align Zippity-Do-Done with bottom seam.
- Stitch side seams.
- Stitch gusset seams.
- Turn Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box right side out.
- Your Zippity-Do-Done Insulated Lunch Box is complete!
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Happy Sewing!
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Shirley Carter
Those insulated lunch totes are so cute! I would certainly make one for myself and my grand daughter.
Susie Pangborn
I made one of these lunch totes and LOVE IT! I use it everyday to take my lunch to work – it’s the perfect size and was so easy to make!