How Quilt a Pocket Flap on a Zipper Backpack

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we are going to quilt the top flap and I will be placing our Velcro closure at the same time. So put the pocket together you can check on this side. So you would have a little bit more of a quarter inch of the pocket flap coming outside of the pocket itself. Hold it like that, now we are going to put/cut a piece of Velcro that will fit under the flap and attach to the pocket. So I'm just going to eye it like that and we would cut our Velcro like that. Open up the Velcro and we would slide that onto the pocket section the front of the pocket section and underneath the flap section. Like this. You can pin that in place like that and now when we quilt our pocket flap we are going to be sewing the Velcro in place at the same time. You want to be very careful not let the needle hit the pin so you may even want to pin it on this side. So you can see the pin and hold it in place. Okay I'm going to start by sewing the quarter inch all the way around as a boarder and then I'm going to crazy quilt vertically like this. It will give it a interested texture cause we have horizontal lines on the pocket it self. Then we would have vertical lines on the flap. The vertical lines will catch the Velcro and hold that on as well. Now I have gone all the way around now I'm just going to crazy quilt vertically on my pocket flap. When you come up you can feel it that it is sewing through the Velcro there. Then feel from the other side coming down the other side, I'm going to remove my pin and then continue on. We have sewn our Velcro on like that. Now for the pocket front you can just sew around. Remove the pin. Now our pocket front and our pocket flap are finished and they would have a nice Velcro closure."