Flamingo Toes

Little Sewing Kit

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Well we’re down to the wire here – one week left!!! I am looking forward to getting things finished up soon and hanging out with the kids and baking this week.
We also have lots of family arriving this week so I should possibly also clean my house. Or I could just wrap every surface in garland to cover up dust and call it good. ;)

If you are still working on gifts or needing ideas, I have a super easy one to share with you. This was originally posted at The Scrap Shoppe a few weeks ago, but here it is again in case you missed it.
As a bonus, I also have new, additional images for you to download and print out!

I’m sharing my tutorial for this darling Sewing Kit. A perfect stocking stuffer or gift!

My inspiration is this little sewing kit from the Land of Nod.

This one is so fun and easy and has so many options!
I’ve have really enjoyed doing some projects printing on fabric – this is perfect for that.

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own kit.

• Fabric for printing – white or light color
• Freezer Paper
• Fabric for Sewing bag
• Ribbon
• Scissors, Needles and Thread for kit
• Box for sewing kit
• Stuffing
• Downloads for printing (at the end of the post)

Begin by cutting out your fabric and freezer paper – you want them to be 8 1/2″ x 11″.

Iron the shiny side of the freezer paper to the fabric.

Print one page at a time. Place your fabric in the printer so that when it feeds through, the printer will print directly onto the fabric. The freezer paper is just there to keep it stabilized.

Sometimes you will get little ink marks along the top or sides of the fabric. It’s a good idea to have a little extra fabric in case you need to reprint something.

 Cut out all your bird and wing pieces. Leave a little white around the dashed lines.
Peel off the freezer paper.

Now your fabric pieces are all ready for your little ones to sew together!

To make the bag to hold all their supplies in, cut a rectangle of fabric 13″ x 28″.
(Ignore the fact that I neglected to iron this – apparently through the entire post. Nice. :)

Cut another set of fabric and freezer paper and print out the sewing kit image.

Trim around the image. Fold your rectangle in half with the cut ends together. Position your image in place on the bag and machine sew on.

Hem the sides at each end for about 3″. Sew a casing into both top edges, wide enough for your ribbon. Sew a seam at the bottom and top of the casing.

 Fold the bag in half again, right sides together, and sew the two side seams. Sew the small part above the casing together as well.

Turn your bag right side out and feed a ribbon through each casing. Knot the ends of the ribbon.

 Gather all your supplies for the kit. I’ve showed you here how the Momma bird is sewn together.
You’ll need to coach your little ones  on how to sew along the edges, stuff the birdie, and sew the opening closed.

 Get a small box to hold embroidery floss, needles and tiny scissors. I used a soap box and the scissors came from a drugstore sewing kit. Both were only $1.

I wrapped several colors of embroidery floss around little floss cards and I also sewed a small rectangle of fabric for a needle holder.
Depending on the age of the child – you’ll want to decide how sharp of a needle you want to give, and of course provide supervision.

 You can give them some stuffing in a ziploc bag, and everything fits nicely in the Sewing bag! So cute – plus it is easy to take along and it keeps everything nice and tidy.

For these birdies, I remade the images based on the Land of Nod set, but you could find any simple clip art image and print it onto fabric for them to make into a stuffed toy.
You could also do the same thing with coloring page images, and add fabric markers to the set – so they can color the fabric and then sew it up!

As a no -sew option – you could get a box and mod podge it with fabric and the Sewing Kit label – then put all the sewing supplies inside. Super easy!

Here are the downloads:

Click here for Sewing Kit Bag Print

Click here for Bird Print – (Includes front and back of large bird, wings, and 2 small birds)

Click here for a NEW Puppy Print! (Includes front and back of puppy)

Click here for a NEW Pig Print! (Includes front and back of pig)

I hope you enjoy the kit – and as always, I’d love to see any pictures of your versions!!

*As always, patterns and images are for personal use only. Do not sell or redistribute the images and/or patterns. Thanks!

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Comments

  1. This is an adorable idea. I love the thought of giving someone their own pre-printed softies to stitch. Thanks for sharing your downloads, they’re (again) adorable.

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  6. I saw this on the scrap shoppe, but I LOVE the new images! I just may have to bust out one more quick little gift! Or at least make it to keep my daughter busy over break!
    Thank you for all the time that went into this tutorial- it’s wonderful!
    xoxo,
    Amy

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  12. Oh my gosh ~ Another adorable project. I think you should move next door to me so I am closer to all your awesomeness. Maybe some of that would wear off on me. :)

    This is just super cute. Please don’t think this is whining but I’d love to see a kitty too although I LOVE those birdies and that pig is just too cute. Thank you so much Bev.
    ~ signed ~ by Not one creative bone in my body and one who appreciates those who do. ;)

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  18. I love this idea… if only I still had more time before christmas. This will have to be a birthday gift for my aspiring seamstress. Thanks for sharing.

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  23. Hi,
    I found you over at Suger Beez link party today and ended up here. I did not know that you could use freezer paper to help print on fabric. Genius!!! I also just became your newest follower. Stop over at my blog and follow , if you like my stuff, too. I will definitely be stopping here all the time now. LOVE it!!!!

    Miranda
    http://www.justdrinkacoke.blogspot.com

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  28. Oh Be this is so cute!

    I have a new blog, Fun Family Crafts, a site similar in nature to Craftgawker and Spotlight, but different in that it’s a library of craft tutorials geared only at kids. I would love it if you’d stop by and submit this to be featured! (I link to you, I don’t post your tutorial on the site) Feel free to submit as many kid friendly craft tutorials as you like! http://funfamilycrafts.com/

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  30. Wow what a lot of awesome projects to make. Thanks so much for those adorable downloads. My husband and I are honorary grandparents to neighbor boy (2 1/2) so I will make the puppy for him. They’ll be moving soon and hopefully the puppy will help remind him of us, we’ll sure miss his Mom and him. Your site is so awesome. Keeps me crafting.

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