How to Sew a Lined Zipper Pouch

Hello, happy Thursday! Let's go through the steps below to make a lined zipper pouch. I am using cotton linen as the outer fabric and the plain lining fabric as the inner fabric in this project. Is it looks nice?


Materials:
1. Two pieces of  11" x 7" Outer fabric 
2. Two pieces of 11" x 7" Lining fabric
3. One piece of  2" x 9" Outer fabric
4. One piece of 2" x 3" Outer fabric
5. One piece of 11" zipper

These are the fabric pieces and zipper that we will need to sew a zipper fabric pouch. The 11" x 7" pieces are including 1/2 inch seam allowance at each edge.

The first step is to cover the tail of the zipper by using the 2" x 3" outer fabric piece. Fold it in half crosswise and press to create a crease. Open up the fabric with the right side facing up, fold the two short sides to the center crease one by one and fold again the center crease to create a cover. Tuck the tail of the zipper inside and topstitching the cover in place. Then, trim the excess fabric on the raw edges of the cover.

The second step, place the 11" x 7" lining and outer fabric right sides together with the top edges aligned properly. Sandwich the zipper along the top edges. Place the tail of the zipper about 1mm or 2mm inwards from the vertical seam line so you won't sew through the tail when you join the body pieces together in the next step and the tail can stay neater once you turn it out. And you will find that it is placed slightly away from the top edges of the fabric, I do so because I want the seam line to be sat on a distance of 1/5inch (5mm) away from the zipper teeth and I can easily stitch the zipper on by following the seam line.

Once you have pinned the pieces properly, change the presser foot to the zipper foot if you are using the sewing machine. Sewing from the tail of the zipper by following the seam line. Keep sewing all the way down the zipper until you are about one inch from the end (or about 1/2 inch from the seam line). Keep your needle down in the fabric and then lift the zipper foot. Now, unzip the zipper until the pull tab moved to the behind of the foot. Pull the zipper tape where the needle still down towards the seam allowance and continue your sewing to the end. Trim off the excess zipper tape. Flip the two pieces of fabrics wrong sides together and topstitch the fabric edge on the zipper. Repeat the steps to finish the opposite part.

Once you have finished sewing the two parts, it will look like this.

Sew a strip with the 2" x 9" fabric. Unzip the zipper to the halfway. Place all the matching pieces right sides together.  Fold the strip in half to create a handle for the pouch. Then, insert the handle between the outer fabric pieces where it is near to the zipper tail. Pin properly. Sew all the way around the fabric, leaving an opening at the bottom of the lining for turning.

Now, it is time to create a box bottom for the pouch. Squish the purse corner so the side seam lay directly over the bottom seam. Sew a 1" straight line across the corner and trim the excess fabric at the corner. Do the same for the other corners. Now, turn the pouch right side out and close the opening with slip-stitch. Done.

Look at the inner bag, the seams are invisible.

The outer pouch looks like this.