Well hello! Yes, I'm still alive. So much has happened over the past few weeks. My husband and I traveled to Indiana, Illinois, back to Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, back to Kentucky, Indiana again and finally home to Illinois! Whew!
But, I'm back now and I finally have time to sew again!
So this weeks project is another gift for my friend who had a baby recently. I originally wanted to make a whole diaper bag but because I've been gone so much and will be leaving again soon I didn't have time! I decided to make something a little smaller. After some pintrest surfing I found the perfect little gift! A diaper clutch. I found the tutorial for this on this blog . I followed it pretty closely, the only thing i did differently was I made a elastic strap instead of the cotton webbing strap in the tutorial. So if my post isn't clear enough you can refer back to the original tutorial.
What I learned from this project: I learned how to "box corners"! Yay! I have always thought that making those cute little corners required a special skill but in reality, they are super easy! When she said to pinch the corners and sew I was confused and didn't know why she was telling me to do that. After I did I realized that I had just boxed the corners! Super cute and easy! I was excited.
This project is made from both linen and cotton fabrics. I love linen, it give such a sweet texture to whatever you are making.
I love the cute ladybug fabric I used for this. It was a fat quarter I had picked up a while back thinking it was cute but didn't have a project in mind. Perfect! And the purple linen I used was a yard sale find! Score!
Okay so first gather all the supplies. Fabric (linen and cotton), fusible fleece, velcro, and elastic (or whatever you want your strap made of).
Using the original blog post for reference, cut the fabric.
Pin and sew together your outside panels like so. (Above and below)
Then it should look like this.
Iron your panels flat and fuse the fleece to the back side of each of them.
Now sew on the fuzzy side of the velcro to the panel you want to be the front of the pouch.
Pin and sew the 2 panels together to make the exterior of the pouch. Pin the panels together right sides facing and sew the 2 sides and bottom leaving the top open.
Now you get to box the corners! Simply pinch the corners, and sew about an inch below the corner. Do this with both corners and it should look something like this. Then clip the corners like they are in the below photo. Turn right side out and set aside for later.
Now it's time to sew the interior of the pouch. Pin and sew the 2 panels of linen together along the 2 long sides, when you get to the bottom leave about a 3 inch gap in the middle. This is to turn it right side out later. Leave the top open like the exterior.
The 3 inch gap.
Box the corners just like before!
I had the idea to make a cute scrunchy strap out of elastic. So I measured about 8 inches of elastic and about 10 inches of linen to cover it when stretched out. Lay out as seen in the photo. This part was a little tricky but turned out cute. Stretch the elastic with both hands while folding the fabric over it and sewing at the same time...this is easier said than done.
It ended up looking like this. Not perfect but still cute!
Grab the exterior that you had set aside for later, it's later! Stitch the strap to the middle of the backside. (See photo.)
Now slip the exterior inside the interior with the right sides facing, (exterior should be right side out and the interior should be wrong side out.) and sew along the top stitching the exterior and interior together.
See!
Now feed the exterior through the gap you left in the bottom of the interior to turn them right sides out! Refer to the photos below.
Once you have them turned right sides out you can sew up the gap in the bottom of the interior and stuff it inside the exterior.
Then top stitch around the exterior to secure the inside to the outside.
Sew on the velcro to the strap and you're done!
Aren't those boxed corners just so cute!
Enjoy!
