Sewing Tutorial | Triangle Coin Purse With Zipper. After being inspired by the wrapped glutinous rice dumpling (粽子, Zòngzi) of a Chinese traditional festival, DuanWu Festival (端午節), I sewed some triangle coin purses recently. In fact, today is the actual date of DuanWu Festival which falls on every 5th day of 5th month of the Lunar calendar.
If you are new to this rice dumpling, scroll down to see the one my mom made… yummy delicious….. may be I should start a food blog for my mom with all her delicious cookings & recipes that I am lucky to eat & grew-up with. [To read more about DuanWu Festival, click here. To read more about Zongzi, click here. For the detail of how to sew a triangle coin purse with zipper closure, read more after this jump: This 3-D triangle purse is actually in the form of tetrahedron shape with 3 triangles on the sides and 1 triangle on the base, other name of tetrahedron is “triangular pyramid”. Materials: 1. Cut fabrics & batting according to the dimension above. Pin batting on the wrong side of the fabrics.
Handmade Therapy: Tea Wallet Tutorial. Alright! As promised here’s my little tea wallet tutorial. And don’t worry, even a beginner can sew this. I use my sewing machine but you only use a straight stitch so you could easily sew these by hand as well. You will need: Scissors 2 5×7 inch pieces of outer fabric (I recommend quilting cotton or home decor weight fabric) 2 5×7 inch pieces of fabric for inside pockets (quilting weight cotton is best) 1 5×7 inch piece of light weight fusible interfacing (not needed if you are using home decor weight fabric for outer fabric) coordinating thread 2-3 inch piece of thin elastic cord (or just cut a thin elastic hair tie in half!) Sewing machine or needle and thread pins iron and iron board Step 1: Cut 2 5×7 inch pieces of your outer fabric. Step 2: Cut out 2 5×7 pieces of your inner pocket fabric and 1 5×7 inch piece of interfacing.
Step 3: Fuse your interfacing to one piece of your outer fabric. Step 4: Grab your two inner fabric pieces and fold them each in half and press. and inside: Enjoy! Zippy Wallet Tutorial. The Zippy Wallet Tutorial is here! Bear with me, this is my first tutorial. Although I've probably followed and read a couple hundred tutorials, you never know. {Key chain tabs not included in instructions} Here's what you need: 1 piece of exterior fabric 5" x 9.5" (interfaced) 1 piece of lining fabric 5"x 11.5" (this is also the binding & lining for the exterior pocket) 2 pieces of fabric (same as lining) 3" x 1.75" for tab (interfaced) Must have: sewing machine coordinating thread 7" zipper (you could use a 6" zipper or larger, but this is what I had) interfacing snap, button, velcro (we'll discuss this later) It would be nice to have: clear ruler self healing mat rotary cutter Let's go!
Cut your exterior fabric into 3 pieces: 5" x 3.5", 5" x 3.5", 5" x 2.5" (for the exterior pocket) Cut your lining fabric into 4 pieces: 5" x 3.5", 5" x 3.5", 5" x 2.5" (lines the exterior pocket), 5" x 2" (make into binding for exterior pocket) Now onto the fun part! TUTORIAL: Lil Cutie Pouches. Ask and ye shall recieve! Here's the tutorial for the Lil Cutie Pouch. You need: 8 x 6.25 piece of exterior fabric (interfaced)8 x 6.25 piece of lining2 x 3 piece of fabric for key ring loopsplit key ring8" zipper This one's quick!
{1/4" seam allowances throughout} Cut your exterior & lining pieces in half (measuring 4 x 6.25 each, you'll have 4 pieces) Take your 2 x 3 piece of fabric, fold right sides together the long way, sew. Lay down the first exterior fabric right side up, place your zipper teeth side down with the zipper pull to the left. Flip wrong sides together. Flip right sides together (be sure to open your zipper about half way now). Sew around entire parimeter leaving a 2 to 3" opening in the lining for turning. When I'm sewing around the parimeter, I make sure to push the zipper towards the exterior fabric on both sides when sewing across the zipper (zoom in on the above picture if you need to).
Attach your metal key ring, you're good to go! Gathered clutch tutorial. A huge thanks to Dana and Disney for doing such a great job of rounding up all sorts of wonderful mother's day projects! Materials needed: 1/4 yard each of three coordinating fabrics (you'll definitely have scraps leftover)8" zipper (you can always purchase a longer zipper and shorten it, just follow the directions on the packagescraps of medium weight fusible interfacingCutting the pieces: For the main exterior, cut two pieces, one 5.5" tall by 9" wide, and one 5.5" tall by 13" wide (this will be the gathered front) Pieces of medium weight fusible interfacing for exterior pieces of clutch: (2) 5.5" tall by 9" wide For the front band, cut one piece 4" tall by 9" wide. Seriously, the most time consuming part for me is always picking out my fabrics and cutting them, the rest goes together pretty easy, so let's go!
Take the front band piece and fold it in half the long way (right sides together) and sew together using a 1/2" seam allowance. Grab the 13" wide main exterior piece.