Halloween Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial
Celebrate Halloween Sewing and sew our fun Wine Tote! In just a couple hours of sewing, you’ll have a fun and festive wine tote to add to your Halloween table decor. Shop our End of Summer Sale and Save up to 40% Off at ShopNZP.com!
Halloween Wine Tote Supplies
- McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman
- 1/2 yd. Outer Wine Tote Fabric
- 1/2 yd. Inner Wine Tote Fabric
- 1 yd. Pellon Fusible ShirTailor Interfacing
- Eze View Press Cloth & Fine Mist Spray Bottle
- Clover’s Heart Shaped Pins or Clover’s Wonder Pins
- Pattern Making Paper
- Pattern Shape Weights – Set of 8
- Sewer’s Fix It Tape
- Team Nancy Zieman’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin by Clover
- Clover’s Stilletto/Awl
- Marking Pen
- Tailor’s Clapper
- June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
- Open Toe Presser Foot
- The Big Jig
- Schmetz Universal Sewing Machine Needle, Sz. 80
- 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Pinking Blade, Mat & Ruler
- Standard Sewing Thread
- Oliso Iron
Halloween Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial!
Finished Size Approximately 4″ x 6″ x 14″
All seam allowance are 5/8″, unless otherwise stated.
Our Halloween Wine Tote, by The Nancy Zieman Productions Team, may be sewn in as little as two or three hours – and is made from just two Halloween Fat Quarters, or 1/2 yd. each of two different fabrics.
Prepare Fabrics
Prepare all fabrics by pressing and starching with June Tailor’s Starch Savvy. Press and starch, press and starch.
Cut Fabrics & Interfacing
- Cut two 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Outer Wine Tote Fabric.
- Cut two 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Inner Wine Tote Fabric.
- Cut four 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Pellon Fusible ShirTailor Interfacing.
- Fuse ShirTailor Interfacing rectangles to wrong side of fabric rectangles, using Eze View Press Cloth & Fine Mist Spray Bottle – filled with water.
- Cut out the Wine Tote Pattern Piece from the McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman.
- ll’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman.
- ll’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman.
- Cut one 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangle from Pattern Making Paper.
- Fold Pattern Making Paper rectangle in half – meeting 17″ long edges.
- Position Wine Tote Pattern Piece along fold of Pattern Making Paper – using Pins or Shape Weights to hold pattern in place.
- Cut away Pattern Making Paper, along curved edge.
- Unfold pattern, and tape Wine Tote Pattern Piece to Pattern Making Paper – using Sewer’s Fix It Tape.
- Position wine tote pattern onto fabric rectangles, using Pins or Shape Weights to hold pattern in place.
- Cut two wine tote lining pieces.
- Cut two wine tote outer pieces.
- Pin or Wonder Clip lining fabrics, right sides together, at top narrow edge.
- Pin or Wonder Clip outer fabrics, right sides together, at top narrow edge.
- Attach an Open Toe Presser Foot to sewing machine, and insert a new Schmetz Universal Sewing Machine Needle, Sz. 80.
- Stitch seams, along top narrow edges.
- Press seams open, using a Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seams.
- Pin or Wonder Clip outer wine tote section to lining fabric section, right sides together, along curved edges.
- Stitch outer wine tote section to lining fabric section – along curved edges.
- Using 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Pinking Blade, Mat & Ruler trim seam allowances to approximately 1/4″ – along curved edges.
Extend the life of the cutting mat, and cut on the “reverse side” of the mat – when rotary cutting with a pinking blade!
- Press seams open over a Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seams.
- Attache Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin to lower corner of outer wine tote section, and turn right sides out.
- Press.
- Pin or Wonder Clip front and back sections together at sides: Pin right sides of outer fabric to outer fabric. Then pin right sides of lining fabric to lining fabric.
- Press seams open, using a Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seams.
- Turn wrong sides out. Press.
- Meet lower edges. Pin or Wonder Clip all lower edge layers together – along lower edge.
- Using sewing machine, or serger, stitch all layers together – along lower edge.
Create Lower Gussets
- Fold lower corners of front and back, meeting right sides together and matching lower seam to side seams.
- Mark a line 1-1/2″ inside corner, as shown.
- Stitch along marked lines – using a Stilletto/Awl to assist feeding seams under presser foot.
Using an Open Toe Presser Foot makes it easy to stitch directly on the marked line!
- Optional: Create curved lower gusset seams by tracing a salad plate, marking curve at previously stitched line, as shown.
- Stitch along curves lines.
Use The Big Jig – to keep presser foot level – when sewing multiple layers!
- Trim away excess seam allowances.
- Serge or zigzag seam allowances.
- Turn right side out, and the wine tote is complete! Optional: Topstich around curved seams.
Our Halloween Wine Tote holds one or two standard wine bottles, and also makes a great gift bag – with a built-in handle!
Halloween Wine Tote Supplies
- McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman
- 1/2 yd. Outer Wine Tote Fabric
- 1/2 yd. Inner Wine Tote Fabric
- 1 yd. Pellon Fusible ShirTailor Interfacing
- Eze View Press Cloth & Fine Mist Spray Bottle
- Clover’s Heart Shaped Pins or Clover’s Wonder Pins
- Pattern Making Paper
- Pattern Shape Weights – Set of 8
- Sewer’s Fix It Tape
- Team Nancy Zieman’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin by Clover
- Clover’s Stilletto/Awl
- Marking Pen
- Tailor’s Clapper
- June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
- Open Toe Presser Foot
- The Big Jig
- Schmetz Universal Sewing Machine Needle, Sz. 80
- 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Pinking Blade, Mat & Ruler
- Standard Sewing Thread
- Oliso Iron
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