Make a Valentines Ear Bud Pouch- Part 1

Do you need a small Valentines Day gift suitable for young & young at heart?
You can create one of these heart shaped mini pouches, they’re fast, easy & so useful. These pouches are fantastic for the storage of ear buds (earplugs), jewellery, lip balm, coins &/or pop some chocolates in it for treats on the go. I used my Bernina 350 sewing machine & found myself addicted to making these!
Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part series of blog posts.  Make sure you visit again tomorrow for part 2. 

Make many for young & young at heart!

For today’s post we will be making the dark green one as shown.

ooh that chocolate!

What Will Be Needed

• Pattern for heart (directions to follow)
• Scraps of 2 different complementary fabrics (lining & front/back of pouch) 2 pieces- 6” x 13”
• Medium weight fusible interfacing -8 x 4”
• ¾” O-ring
• 4 ½” zipper to coordinate with fabric (can be larger & cut down)
• Bernina zipper foot #4 & ¼” foot #37
• Used for this project- Bernina 350 sewing machine
• 4 x 4” piece of paper
• Paper & sewing scissors
• Marker or pen
• Thread to match
• Sewing clip optional
• Fabric glue stick optional
• Chocolates optional (but helpful :)

Supplies Needed

Cutting

• Draw out the heart pattern by folding a 4 x 4” piece of paper in ½ and referring to the pictures below, draw & cut out the heart pattern.

Drafting the pattern

Cutting out the pattern

• Cut 2 hearts from the medium weight fusible interfacing using the heart pattern.
• Cut 1 piece of fabric 5.5” x 5.25”–front of pouch, 1 piece-5.5 x 5.25-lining, 1 piece 4.75 x 4.5-front of pouch & 1 piece 4.75 x 4.5-lining.
• If your zipper is longer than 4 ½” you can cut it & zigzag a stop at the bottom of the zipper so you do not loose your zipper pull. You will need to find a #1 foot or open toe foot for this.
• Cut an O-ring tab out of the front of pouch fabric 2 x 3”.
• Mark a line on one of the interfacing hearts 2” down from the top horizontally & then 2 more lines on either side of the 2” line, ¼” out from this line as shown.

Measuring 2" down from the top

Measuring 1/4" on either side of the 2" line

• Cut the interfacing heart on the ¼” lines that were drawn as shown. Discard this center slice of interfacing.

Dicarding the cut out interfacing

Cutting complete, prepped & ready for sewing. Getting excited!

 
My cutting is complete! I’m ready & excited for tomorrows post when we get to the sewing with a #37- ¼” foot, #4 zipper foot & my Bernina 350 sewing machine. Hope you can set aside time to visit tomorrow.❤️