Making the easiest DIY zipper pulls ever by Robin Bogaert August 20, 2021 written by Robin Bogaert August 20, 2021 514 I hope you liked the Pretty Zippered Pencil Case I showed you how to make yesterday. Having a little something special ready and waiting for young students could motivate them to feel excited for the first day of school and may just make them feel a little more at ease and excited about beginning school. Today I’m showing you how to make the easiest zipper pull attachment with no machine sewing required that can go with the 3 cute back-to-school pencil cases I featured this week. These zipper pulls require very few supplies and include DMC Matte Cotton Yarn (or embroidery floss) and an Elan Snap-Clip. These zipper pulls add functionality and bright, cheerful color to pencil cases, bags, backpacks and more. 4 bright and easy zipper pulls materials 5 to 6 skeins of DMC Matte Cotton Yarn or embroidery floss Elan Snap-Clip ½” (the D-ring that comes with it is not required) crewel embroidery needle or yarn needle small scissors Check out my Easy Zipper Pulls YouTube video tutorial. Supplies needed to make the easiest zipper pull ever Step 1 Choose a cotton yarn or embroidery floss as the main color for the tassel mop and remove the paper sleeve. Note: You can use the whole skein or unravel ½ of the skein to use. If you don’t want to use up all of your gorgeous DMC Matte Cotton Yarn, using ½ the skein will work as well. Paper sleeves pulled off of a skein of floss for the main color in the tassel mop Step 2 Cut a 36” length from the remaining 6 colors of embroidery floss, as shown. I’m repeating my colors for a total of 6 rounds of color. 6 lengths of 6 colors of DMC Matte Cotton Yarn Step 3 Using the tassel mop color, tie one of the 6 colors around the center of the skein and wrap it around the skein tightly leaving a length of floss. Attach the snap clip and use the extra length of floss to wrap around the base of the snap clip several times to secure it. Leave extra floss to tie to the next color. First piece of DMC Matte Cotton Yarn wrapped around the center of the mop skein and securing the Elan Snap-Clip Building on the yarn wrap Step 4 Continue to tie and wrap other colors evenly on each side of the center wrap incorporating your tied ends into the wrapping until it looks like the picture below. Use your yarn needle to burry loose ends and tie off thread. Building on the yarn wrap with other colors Step 5 Bend your skein in half and using about 10” of the last color of floss, tie your wrapped loop, split the floss in half and use these split ends to tie it tight. Zipper pull bent and last color wraps the tassel mop together with the arms of the zipper pull Step 6 Cut the looped ends of your tassel so that they’re even. Cutting the loop ends so that the tassel mop is even Step 7 Attach the tassel to your zipper and admire. The final result with Elan Snap-Clip and DMC Matte Cotton Yarn Bright, pretty, practical zipper pulls add a fun accessory to the back-to-school pencil cases. If you are more of an auditory learner, you may wish to watch my YouTube Tutorial to make these zippers pulls. I hope you enjoyed this week’s pencil case tutorials and that you have built more zipper insertion, applique and quilting confidence. Be sure to try these zipper pulls from today’s tutorial for the young ones in your life to help brighten up their school year with just 2 specific sewing notions DMC Matte Cotton Yarn and Elan Snap-Clip. Have a great weekend and Happy Sewing. This is part 5 of 5 in this series Go back to part 4: Stay organized and sew up a Pretty Zippered Pencil Case Print this page or save as a PDF 0qs377accessoriesbagsbattingCOSTUMEMAKERSdmcelanfabric adhesiveFABRIC FUSEFairfieldfree patternsheatnbondnotionsthreadsuniqueUNIQUE sewingzipper pullzippers FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinRedditWhatsappTelegramEmail Robin Bogaert Robin Bogaert is a long arm quilter, creator and blogger at quiltingintheloft.com and has many years of quilting experience. Robin was the past owner of a quilt shop in Windsor, Ontario and now resides in Waterloo. Robin's roots in quilting are traditional, however she appreciates modern quilt design as well and considers the focus of work to be designing, teaching, trunk shows, free motion quilting, ruler work and thread painting. In addition to her passion for sharing all things quilting, Robin is busy with pattern design and sells her patterns on her website and with Craftsy.com. Robin was featured in the Summer 2016 and 2017 (Canada 150th) edition of Quilters’ Connection Magazine and is a new guest contributor at QUILTsocial.com. previous post Stay organized and sew up a Pretty Zippered Pencil Case next post Making a faux hand embroidered cushion cover with the Brother Luminaire XP YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... Quilting tools to help with everyday needs OLFA rotary cutter and rulers for quilters on... What’s in your Hemline Gold Multi-Use Craft Bag? 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