Little tutorial offered by Ambre, who came to do an internship with us to sew you a pretty quilted fabric vanity case!
We used the free PDF Tuto pattern from the Les Patronnes website.
Materials needed:
- Main fabric: 40cm by 140cm (pre-washed): Matelassé Garance Rose
- Lining: 40 cm by 140 cm (pre-washed) or 50 cm by 140 cm if using lining fabric for the bias
- Zipper foot
- 100% Polyester matching thread
- Piping: 2 x 55 cm: Silver piping / Bias: 2 x 55cm to buy by the meter or to make with your lining fabric
Steps to follow
1/ Cut out the fabric and the lining using the patterns (don’t forget the notches!)
2/ Integrate the zipper foot
3/ Superimpose No. 4 right side against right side lining and fabrics by integrating the zipper in “Sandwich” and pin!
4/ Assemble at 1cm
5/ Integrate the classic crowbar
6/ Topstitch
7/ Repeat the operation for No. 5
8/ Place right side against right side No. 3 Body and back lining (place the notches at the zipper level!
9/ Assemble at 1cm
10/ Repeat the operation with the other end to make a ring.
11/ Superimpose No. 2 lining and fabric right side against right side, pin
12/ Turn the handle over
13/ Place the handle on top, place No. 1 according to the notch marks.
14/ Prick at 0.5 cm
15/ Take No. 1 below, position the piping less than 1cm from the edge (depending on the width of the piping) and pin
15/ Using the zipper presser foot, assemble the wrong side of the fabric and the wrong side of the lining.
16/ Repeat for the top
17/ Leave the zipper open to be able to return
18/ Make gathers on the lengths of No. 1 right side.
19/ Pin to the body of the Vanity
20/ Assemble at 1 cm
21/ Create your own handmade bais using the lining fabric or buy one ready-made
22/ Prepare it with the iron
23/ Place the bias on the internal edges of the Vanity right side against right side and pin
24/ Prick at the same level as the previous punctures
25/ Fold down the bias
26/ Sew ribbing into the previous seam
27/ Return and iron!
If I had to do it again
- buy ready-made bias binding for a nicer finish
- the zipper would have deserved a more ivory color than white
- the piping was also too thin for this type of project and with the gathers tends to make little bundles in one area
Patience and beautiful sewing!
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