Triangle pouch project

These triangle pouches make great gifts and are ideal for storing little things like sewing clips in.

Free foundation piecing projects

Find lots of free foundation paper pieced patterns in this post. From Star wars to butterflies, TV characters to detailed traditional quilt blocks.

Project Pouch Tutorial

Project Bag Tutorial This large project pouch will easily hold the fabric and pattern for your next project, or your works in progress. Why not make several because let’s face it we never just work on one project at a time! I’ve designed the pouch to showcase some of your favourite scraps, but if you wanted to you could just use a single fabric front and back and show off a large-scale print instead. Materials 1/2m of fabric for the exterior. I used a grey linen. 1/2m of lining fabric. I used a grey blender. A selection of scraps…

Maker’s Box

This spacious fabric storage box will hold your sewing tools, fabric and haberdashery plus it also fits our Maker’s Workbook into the side too to help you keep track of your projects. I managed to fit over 10 metres of fabric into my Maker’s Box. The Vlieseline Style-Vil gives it really good body which means it can hold it’s shape even when empty. It has padded handles to make it easy to carry even when full, this fabric storage basket is ideal for sewing room storage or taking sewing projects and supplies out with you. Materials required 1 metre…

SpoolPod Pouch Tutorial

SpoolPod Case Tutorial This quick to make pouch is big enough to hold 4 SpoolPods at a time, and because it’s clear you can easily spot the spools inside. You can even fit your Maker’s Workbook or Garment Planning Notepad in it too.  Don’t be daunted by sewing vinyl, it’s not as scary as you think, I’ve included some tips below.   Materials: 1 fat quarter of fabric 1 fat quarter of medium iron on interfacing 1 fat quarter of vinyl (I used Premium Clear Vinyl from Search Press) 14 inch chunky zip (or longer cut to size which…

Expanding your Maker’s Workbook

Do you ever wish there were a few more pages in your Maker’s Workbook?  Do you want to write about more than 25 projects?  Do you have a large stash and require more stash pages? Good news!  We’ve just made some of the workbook pages downloadable so you can print extras and add them to your workbook.  Find all our downloads here. If you’re wondering how to store these extra pages, we have a solution.  Below is a simple tutorial for adding a pocket to the back cover of your workbook which you can store the extra pages in.…