Potty Purse
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 4:11AM Designed by Linda Phillips, Alabama
Linda sent us this great project and had it stitched in blue with a fish embroidery design. Alix created one for the American Sews Quick Project. This is a great project to make for your bathroom or give as a gift. Place the loops on the bar that hold the toilet paper in your toilet paper holder to store extra rolls right where in you need it in an elegant way!
Sewing Supplies:
3/8 yard medium weight fabric
1 yard 2mm decorative cord
Sulky 40 weight Embroidery Thread
Sewing Thread
Sulky Tear-Easy Stabilizer
Chaco Liner
6” x 24” Ruler, Rotary Cutter, and Mat
1. Cut:
1 rectangle 30” x 8 ½” for outside
2 rectangles 15 ½” x 8 ½” for lining
28”of 2mm cord
2. On the 30” x 8 ½” rectangle measure down 9” from the one short end and mark the starting point of the embroidery design. Hoop the fabric with tear away stabilizer underneath. Bring up the design of your choice and thread with 40 weight Rayon thread on top and bobbin weight thread in the bobbin. Embroider. Press with wrong side up and set aside.
3. Select a straight stitch, snap on your ¼” piecing foot and thread with sewing thread top and bobbin. Place the two lining rectangles right sides together and sew one 8 ½” side with a ¼” seam allowance leaving a 4 inch opening at the center of the seam. Press seams open.
4. Place the embroidered piece and the lining right sides together and stitch with a ¼” seam all the way around the outside. Turn the piece right side out through the opening in the lining. Press. Stitch the opening or use a strip of Steam a Seam 2 fusible web to close it.
5. Measure ¾” from the end of the short edges. Overlap the short edges to the markings. From the right side, stitch along the edge through all layers. Turn to the wrong side and stitch along the edge through all layers. This will create a casing for the cord.
6. Overlap the ends of the cord to create a circle and stitch together to create a loop. Use a bodkin or safety pin to pull the circle of cord through the casing to create hanging loops on both ends.
7. Bartack the cord at both ends to hold it securely.
8. Select a favorite decorative stitch, thread with 40 wt Rayon thread on top in a complementary color and stitch around on both sides. Use your free arm so you don’t sew the front and back together!
9. Slide the loops onto the bar that holds the toilet paper in the holder and place two new rolls in the “potty purse
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