This little pouch is a great way to dress up any gift! Fill it with holiday cookies or a teachers gift...the possibilities are endless! The best part, it's really quick and easy to make!
Materials:
one fat quarter
thread
ribbon
sewing machine
scissors or rotary cutter
safety pin
Instructions
1.
Cut you fabric. For this one I cut
one rectangle 8” wide by 18” long for non directional fabric. For directional fabric cut two 8” wide
by 9” long, making sure the print is facing the same way on both cuts. (you can
make your pouch any size you like, just make sure your length is about double
your width.)
2. Fold your fabric in half width wise with wrong sides together
and mark 1.5” from the top on either side.
3. Stitch each side from your mark to the bottom of the pouch,
using a 1/8” seam allowance.
So that you have this:
5. Now, we need to make the gusset bottom. Turn your pouch wrong sides together
and line up side seams on top of each other so that the bottom of the pouch
forms two triangles. Mark 1” from
the tip of each triangle.
6. Stitch along your marking for each side of the pouch bottom.
Trim your seam to 1/8” .
7. Turn your pouch right sides together and stitch each bottom
seam again using a ¼” seam allowance.
8. Iron each of the top 1.5” of the sides seam allowance wrong
sides together about ¼”.
10. Stitch the top casing all the way around as close to the edge
of the fold as you can get.
11. Woohoo, the sewing is done! Now, we just need to run the ribbon drawstring. Attach a safety pin to the end of your
ribbon and feed it through the casing of the pouch.
12. Trim the ribbon to desired length and knot each end so that it
doesn’t fray.
That’s it! Your done! I will definitely be giving cookies to our neighbors in this. How would you use them? I'd love to know.
until next time
-jessie
