Upcycled Lovelies – Tissue pouches and Sunglasses cases
How about a basket of springy cheer in the form of these tissue pouches and sunglasses cases? Both of these makes are fantastic scrap buster projects and also nice beginner sewing projects to use just a small amount of fabric and test your skills (and your sewing machine!)
The tissue pouches are made from fabric remnants from previous projects; this supersoft knit fabric pouch is mostly upcycled clothing – made from one of my daughter’s outgrown tops…
I love the print on this fabric and the little sequins!
These spotty and flowery fabric ones incorporate one of her cotton tops which was so pretty but only worn a handful of times, as it was sleeveless and rather a chilly summer that year!
This is a rather addictive craft as it’s quick and easy and great practice for sewing straight lines on your machine, something I’ve had to work at myself! There are some great tutorials and patterns online but my favourite is this one from Notes from the Patch
The sunglasses cases are made using flex-frames – I spent ages googling to find out the name of these pinch-open pouch closures!!
Flex frames – picture courtesy of artfire.com
Again there are stacks of great tutorials online – I used this one from Fabric Yard (where you can also buy sewing supplies) as it’s got great step-by-step pictures and instructions. By the way, this tutorial says to spray baste the wadding to the fabric – I used a light smattering of fabric glue which seemed to do the trick. Always use what you have to hand, I say!
The glasses cases are also good practice for quilting – a technique that’s quite new to me. It was a fun way to try out different styles of quilting on a small area of fabric before trying a bigger project.
Most of the glasses cases pictured here were made with repurposed fabric from clothing – there are pieces from two men’s shirts, a little girl’s dress and a couple of tops in use here, plus some gorgeous stripy turquoise fabric from a sample book.
What are your favourite scrap-buster sewing projects? I’d love to see your ideas too 🙂
ShabbyShe 
How pretty these are! And the sunglasses cases would soon come in very handy 🙂
Amalia
xo
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Thanks Amalia – lovely weather here today, hopefully sunglasses on from now on! x
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They’re both imaginative ways to use up small pieces of fabric. I made several tissue cases as Christmas presents and they went down well. I’ve never used flex-frames though, so might have to have a go at that with my scraps.
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Thanks, I agree they are sweet for gifts, maybe for the teachers in July! x
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They are lovely and a great gift idea too, thanks for linking. 🙂 x
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Thanks Linda, I always enjoy a browse at your link parties 🙂
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Wonderful and so to have on hand for for Allergy season
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