NEW! Glowing Ghosts Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial and Last Day of Our Big Birthday SALE at ShopNZP!

NEW! Glowing Ghosts Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial and Last Day of Our Big Birthday SALE at ShopNZP!

Celebrate Halloween Sewing and sew our NEW! Glowing Ghosts 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. Deanna, from Team NZP, chose Glowing Ghosts on black background for the outer wine tote fabric, and Dancing Skeletons on orange for the lining fabric! WARNING: When we turned out the lights … the ghosts began to glow in the dark!

Glowing Ghosts Wine Tote Supplies

• McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman
• 1/2 yd. NEW! Hocus Pocus Glowing White Ghosts on Black Fabric
• 1/2 yd. NEW! Hocus Pocus Dancing White Skeletons on Orange 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
• Iron

Glowing Ghosts Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial!

Finished Size Approximately 4″ x 6″ x 14″

All seam allowance are 5/8″, unless otherwise stated.

Our NEW! Glowing Ghosts 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 Hocus Pocus Fat Quarters, or 1/2 yd. each of two different fabrics. We chose Glowing Ghosts on black background, and Dancing Skeletons on orange background!

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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 Glowing White Ghosts on Black Fabric.
• Cut two 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Dancing White Skeletons on Orange 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 from Dancing White Skeletons on Orange Fabric.
• Cut two wine tote outer pieces from Glowing White Ghosts on Black Fabric.

• 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 Glowing Ghosts Wine Tote holds one or two standard wine bottles, and also makes a great gift bag – with a built-in handle!

• When the lights go out … the ghosts glow in the dark!

Sew our Coordinating Spooky Spiderweb Table Runner! with Team NZP’s FREE! Spiderweb Stitching Guide Printable PDF!

Sew a Set of our Coordinating Halloween Applique Coasters and download the FREE! Spooky Halloween Applique Printable!

Sew Mary Mulari’s Reversible Crisscross Apron from one yard each of two coordinating NEW! Hocus Pocus Halloween Fabrics! We chose Witches Feet on Cream and Skeletons on Orange!

Reversible Crisscross Apron Pattern: Front

Reversible Crisscross Apron: Back

Glowing Ghosts Wine Tote Supplies

• McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman
• 1/2 yd. NEW! Hocus Pocus Glowing White Ghosts on Black Fabric
• 1/2 yd. NEW! Hocus Pocus Dancing White Skeletons on Orange 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
• Iron

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Create a Spooky Spiderweb Table Runner our with FREE! Spiderweb Stitching Printable PDF!

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Make our Glowing Ghosts Halloween Wine Tote!

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For a chance to be the random winner of one of a Clover’s Clip’ N Glide Bodkin from Clover, please leave a comment below sharing your favorite holiday sewing projects.

Join the Nancy Zieman Productions 2020 Table Runner Sewing Challenge October 1–29, 2020!

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. 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!

Happy Halloween Sewing!

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