While browsing a favorite blog, How About Orange, I saw this post about a self-zipping coin purse. The project originates in this tutorial from Craft Passion, and those are the instructions I used. I'm not sure what made me think I could actually create this geometric wonder -- it even looks complicated in the tutorial, and those folks knew what they were doing! -- but once I made up my mind, I was off to buy a zipper and coordinating ribbon. (My purse went unlined -- after a few attempts at hand-sewing lining along the ribbon on the inside, I wasn't happy with the results and I couldn't keep the lining from interfering with the zipper action.) Unfortunately, I forgot to get a picture of the purse unzipped, but trust me, it does unzip all the way around and around and around.
I bought a pair of earrings at a local Fair Trade shop and tucked them inside this little purse to send to a friend in Texas for her birthday.
(Admittedly, I didn't discourage Jack's curiosity during my little photo shoot. I needed something to show scale, so why not the cat?)
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