Make a Merry & Bright Advent Calendar with Fabric Folded Pockets and No-Binding Technique

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Make a Merry & Bright Advent Calendar with Fabric Folded Pockets and No-Binding Technique

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How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Make a Merry & Bright Advent Calendar with a convenient pre-printed fabric panel by Dani Mogstad for Riley Blake Designs! Sew this quick and easy Advent Calendar with fabric folded pockets and our no-binding technique! Plus add holiday shimmer when stitching your Advent Calendar with Metallic Threads!

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Advent Calendar Sewing Supplies

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Make a Merry & Bright Advent Calendar Sewing Tutorial

Approximate Finished Size: 18″w x 17″ tall.

All seam allowances are 1/2″.

Prepare Fabrics

Quilter's Starch Savvy Available at ShopNZP.com

Note From Team Nancy Zieman ProductionsPrepare all fabrics for Advent Calendar sewing and assembly by pressing and starching with June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy.

Press Interfacing to Panel Back

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Cut Fabrics

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

 

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

 

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Create Advent Calendar Front

 How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blogç

  • To create pocket rows, fold top Merry Christmas heading to wrong side –wrong sides together – folding along printed line above pockets 1 through 6. Press.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Fold top Merry Christmas heading –right side up with right sides together – meeting printed line above pockets 1 through 6; to printed line below heading. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Clip all pocket layers together, along side seams, using Wonder Clips.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Continue creating pocket rows: Fold top heading to wrong side –wrong sides together – folding along printed line above pockets 7 through 12. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Fold top heading –right side up with right sides together – meeting printed line above pockets 7 through 8; to printed line below pockets 1 through 6. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.
  • Clip all pocket layers together, along side seams, using Wonder Clips.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Continue creating pocket rows: Fold top heading to wrong side –wrong sides together – folding along printed line above pockets 13 through 18. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Fold top heading –right side up with right sides together – meeting printed line above pockets 13 through 18; to printed line below pockets 7 through 13. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.
  • Clip all pocket layers together, along side seams, using Wonder Clips.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Continue creating pocket rows: Fold top heading to wrong side –wrong sides together – folding along printed line above pockets 19 through 24. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Fold top heading –right side up with right sides together – meeting printed line above pockets 19 through 24; to printed line below pockets 13 through 18. Press with Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seam.
  • Clip all pocket layers together, along side seams, using Wonder Clips.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

New Clover Wonder Pins available at ShopNZP.com

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Note From Team Nancy at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Add holiday shimmer and stitch vertical pocket lines with Metallic Threads and Schmetz Chrome Jeans/Denim Needle, size 100!

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

 

Note From Team Nancy at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

Add additional holiday shimmer and double-stitch or triple-stitch multiple rows of vertical pocket lines with Metallic Threads!

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Baste side seams to hold pocket layers in place, using a Stiletto/Awl to help in guiding pockets under presser foot.

Create Advent Calendar Back with Rod Pocket Hanger

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Press 1/4″ to wrong side – along short ends of  6″ x 17″ rectangle of  Green Cotton Solid Fabric – for rod pocket.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Press under a second 1/4″ along short ends – creating a double folded edge.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Press rod pocket, wrong sides together, meeting long edges.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Using a Chaco Liner, mark a line 1/2″ above folded line – on wrong side of rod pocket.

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  • Stitch along marked line.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Fold rod pocket right sides together. Pin through all layers along top edge.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Baste rod pocking to baking, along top edge only, with 1/4″ seam.

 

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

 

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Fuse a 6″ length of 3/8″ Fusible Web Tape along lower edge on right side of backing fabric – between marked lines.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Clip all layers together, around all four outer edges, using Wonder Clips.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Position Seam Guide on bed of machine – at 1/2″ seam allowance.
  • Stitch along printed seam line along top edge and bottom edge, leaving 6″ opening at bottom – for turning.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • “Wrap” seams –along stitching– folding seams towards project. Stitch side seams catching top and bottom seam allowances within seams.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Trim, or grade, seam allowances at corners.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Turn Advent Calendar right sides out, through lower opening.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Remove paper backing from Fusible Web Tape, and press seam closed along lower edge

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

 

Stitch an Attached Date Marker

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Cut out printed Santa motif from selvage (or any one printed motif of your choosing), cutting any shape you’d like and allowing for approx. 3/8″ seam allowances – around all outside edges.
  • Cut out one or two craft felt shapes – the same size and shape as printed motif cutout.

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How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Edgestitch around all shape edges, inserting one end of a 30″ length of ribbon – into top of motif – before stitching top seam.

Note From Team Nancy at The Nancy Zieman Productions BlogUse a Point 2 Point Turner to assist with tucking ribbon into top opening of date marker, prior to stitching seam.

 

 

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Hand stitch opposite ribbon end to back of Advent Calendar.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Tuck Date Marker Motif into pocket – to track December days leading up to Christmas Eve.

How to Sew an Advent Calendar with the Merry and Bright Panel at The Nancy Zieman Productions Blog

  • Or, tuck a special treat, or daily devotional, into each pocket!

 

Advent Calendar Sewing Supplies

 

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You’re invited to join, anytime, by stitching a table runner in any color palette, featuring any sewing, quilting, or machine embroidery techniques. Finished Challenge Table Runners must fit on a kitchen or dining table—use your imagination! Enter one table runner that has been sewn within the last year and has not been entered into a previous Nancy Zieman Productions Table Runner Sewing Challenge. Finished Table Runner photos due this Thursday, October 1, 2020 ! Find all challenge details in our October 1, 2020 blog posting. You could win a prize from one of our generous 2020 Table Runner Sewing Challenge Sponsors!

 

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For a chance to be the random winner of a Clover’s Pen-Style Chaco Liner from Clover, please share comment below about our Advent Calendar Tutorial or about your Holiday sewing plans!

Clover will give away one random Clover’s Pen-Style Chaco Linerto one US resident in the 48 contiguous states. Winner must reply within 30 days to the official giveaway announcement email message – sent from Nancy Zieman Productions.

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Her comment is: The wine tote would make a great gift & I can envision it in Christmas fabric to give as a gift. Right now, I making wool felt ornaments of mittens adored with various things like snowmen, holly leaves and the like.

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9 Comments

  • Julie
    October 20, 2020

    What a genius design for an easy-to-make Advent Calendar! – a perfect gift and another wonderful project to give from NZP! Please keep the ideas and projects coming, I look forward to receiving the emails and opening them up. It’s like Christmas each time another idea shows up in my mailbox!

  • beth daniels
    October 20, 2020

    I love the advent calendar. it is so enticing.

  • Susan Du
    October 20, 2020

    Super cute panel for some holiday fun. Loved the Advent Calendars as a kid and what a great way to get a young person interested in sewing by doing this project together.

  • Joyce Migliore
    October 20, 2020

    Love the advent calendar. I like that you can put the candy coins in it or just use the marker for countdown!

  • CM
    October 20, 2020

    This advent calendar is a great twist with pockets made by folding the fabric instead of a bunch of raw edges. Great tutorial explaining each step with pictures reinforcing the written instructions. It’s all so clear the way the tutorial shows it. Thank you.

  • Kathryn Englebretsen
    October 20, 2020

    The advent calendar is charming but we don’t have children. I am naking a new tree skirt this season.

  • Carolyn T
    October 20, 2020

    The Advent themed fabric panel is wonderful and so are the details in your tutorial. I love everything pockets!

  • Clovis
    October 20, 2020

    Never made an Advent Calendar before.

  • Darci
    October 21, 2020

    Very cute-the link for the panel goes to a different fabric though.

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