But I saw you finished your Camilla silicone so that was great progress!
I look forward to seeing her in Kansas! I wanted to get one but just a bit tight for me right now.
I have to go sell stuff first! LOL!
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There wasn’t much to do to finish here so I didn’t even count that as progress!
I hope I make it to your booth early enough to buy a bag!
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You will have to tell me who you are when I see you! I am terrible knowing who’s who.
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So this is how it goes with self taught sewing. I have never sewn a zipper in anything in my life. There is a gal I follow on YouTube named Chelsea of “She Sews Seams.” After watching many of her videos, I decided to try my hand at sewing in zippers yesterday. I tried a couple different methods and have figured out what does and does not work for me. Two bags look fairly decent and the last one I had issues with my zipper slipping, so it is very crooked inside and out. That bag is still functional, just not as pretty and well done. I learned from it though what I want to do differently, and I think I have a handle on this now. Rather than trying to sew the zipper sandwiched between the outer bag and inner bag lining the way she teaches, I am finding that I do better to sew my zipper down first, then go back and sew the lining over it with finished seams. As they say, I learned a lot about what not to do!
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LOVE that you did zippers on them!!! I think they look good!!!
I love the zipper bags! You did wonderful!
Kudos to you for learning! I am glad that you found what work the best.
Zippers are very hard to sew for me 
Did you pin and baste it before stitching? That helps immensely for keeping it in place while you sew.
Those are so cute
the tutorial I was following did not do it that way but as I tried different things I did figure out that indeed basting it first is going to be the most successful way for me. The one where I did it that way turned out the best.
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I love the lemons!!! So cheery!!