Halloween Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial

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. Plus SAVE up to 30% on Halloween Fabrics, Panels, and Fat Quarter Packs in store at the Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio and online 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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