Yesterday I spent 30 minutes or so making pocket tissue cases. (I took them to my friend and her roommates in the hospital.)
This is a QUICK project with nice results that I have even made in Sunday school classes for Mother's Day... If you keep your wits about you and have an idea of what you are doing, it really is a simple, lovely gift. You have to be able to iron, but you only sew two seams...
You need a piece of fabric 21 1/2 inches long and 6 inches wide. (Give or take... I have pieced the fabric before.)
Sew both ends at 1/2 inches from the edges. Sorry, my tension was not great on my sewing machine when I was doing this.
Fold and iron the left-hand end to the right (meaning top) side of the fabric 1 3/4 inch from the edge.
Fold and iron the right-hand end to the
wrong side of the fabric 1 3/4 inch from the edge.
Right sides together on the one end, wrong sides together on the other end.
Now... ignoring the fold that you just made at the right-hand side (that last step) bring that edge (on the right in my picture) up to the edge on the left side of the strip. The two edges should touch. This is the tissue opening. The crease you just made on the right side just follows along and does nothing at this point.
Lift up the extra fabric on your right-hand side and bring it up and over to the left-hand side, not shifting the tissue opening and letting the fabric crease naturally at that ironed point that was doing nothing.
If you let the fabric crease while lining up the extra fabric with the left-hand
side (I'm pinching that fabric here) it will make a nice neat sandwich-like piece. It should measure about 7 inches. Iron it all down,
pin if you like at the four corners (I don't) and take it over to the
machine. Sew both open sides a 1/4 inch seam from the edges.
Now you have a unit that is wrong-side out with a pocket.
Turn the pocket right-side out... the long extra stuff first.
Then turn the short end right side out... and there you have a tissue opening with a longish flap on one side.
Get the corners pointy, iron it all down and the tissue case will also have a place for a handkerchief or supermarket cards or something.
The flap folds down to cover the opening after you've put in a pocket tissue.
Japanese pocket tissue sizes and other countries' pocket tissue sizes might be different... but maybe you can figure out the measurements to your own pocket tissue...
On the streets in Tokyo you are often handed packets of pocket tissue and it is nice to have a pretty case to keep them in.
ReplyDeleteThese cases are indeed neat with the flap and the extra pocket and you have used very attractive fabric.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Each of those cases is just as pretty as anybody could want.
ReplyDeleteVery, very nice!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your wonderful blog. It is SO good to be able to read you again. Thank you!! Aleta - Missouri
ReplyDeleteThank you for this great tutorial, Tanya! The extra pocket will be very useful.
ReplyDeleteI have some of that same fabric left over from a quilt border(in pink and light blue). Those do make nice gifts ... especially for the free packs Queenie talks about.
ReplyDeleteTanya, these are lovely, and great use of leftover fabrics...and I always enjoy your instructions/descriptions of projects...plain language that we all can understand...hugs, Pat in IN
ReplyDeleteYour fabric choices are so lovely Tanya, thank you for the tute, I like quick projects, these will make nice gifts for my sewing friends. Ani in NC
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you for repeating these instructions. This pattern makes the BEST little tissue packet -- so easy and so useful.
ReplyDeleteI love that your pocket tissue holder has the flap that covers the opening!! have never seen one that did that. Very clever. Thanks!
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