Hanging skein bag

Exterior skein bag embroidery

• Trace a 1cm contour (0.4 inches) from the edge to indicate the return, with a baste, on the linen.
• Identify the centre by folding the linen into two lengthways, and mark with a baste, delimitating 2 rectangles.

• Embroider a design in the top rectangle.
  • This side will be the front of the closed bag.
  • The design must fit into a 6cm (2.36 inches) high zone, 3cm (1.18 inches) from the middle marker.

• Embroider a second design on the bottom rectangle.
  • This side will be the back of the closed bag.
  • The design must fit back to back with the previous one.
  • The design must fit into a 6cm (2.36 inches) high zone, 3cm (1.18 inches) from the middle marker.

(The grid used here has been edited by “A Mon Ami Pierre”: Alphabet Brodeuse (Ref. JD259) and Accessoires Quaker (Ref. JD243), to which the sentence “De petits fils à petits points le temps file et la passion point” has been added.

• Embroider the two pieces of gallon for the handles, thread on thread.

Creating the interior of the skein bag

• For the linerboard pockets:
  • Fell the 4 pieces of striped cotton - 6 cm x 22 cm (2.36 inches x 8.66 inches) for the linerboard.
  • Fold back the edges by 1cm (0.4 inches), from bottom to top, to obtain 4cm (1.57 inches) high strips.

!- constantly mark your folds with an iron.

• For the big pocket:
  • Fell the piece of striped cotton – 18 cm x 22 cm (7.09 inches x 8.66 inches).
  • Fold back the edges by 2cm (0.8 inches) at the top to obtain a 16cm (6.3 inches) high piece
• Fold back the edges around the cloth in order to obtain a rectangle of the same size as the linen (notwithstanding the folds): 19.5 x 49.5 cm (7.68 inches x 19.49 inches) and mark with the iron.

• Unfold the plain cloth and place all the pockets as per the diagram.

• Baste
  • one stitch on each large side to fix the pockets into place.
  • and some horizontal stitches at the bottom of the linerboard pockets.
• Delimit the linerboard compartments.

• Sew with a sewing machine.
• Re-fold in the borders, insisting with the iron, to obtain a piece of 19.5cm x 49.5cm (5.68 inches x 19.5 inches). Make sure of the dimensions by referring to the embroidered cloth on which the basted markers should be retained up to the end.

• Ungarnish the angles if need be.

Creating the outside of the skein bag

• Notch the edge of the two pieces of striped cotton (10 cm x 22 cm , 3.73 inches x 8.66 inches) for the upper borders (if you don’t have any clipping scissors, fold the edge in by 1cm (0.37 inches) though only on the large sides)

• Place them straddling the two extremities of the cloth.

!- Don’t forget to fold the edges back by 1cm on both the top and bottom!

• Baste.

• Place the handles on the inside.

• Baste.

• Sew with the machine 4mm (0.16 inches) from the top edge.

Final assembly of the skein bag

• Place the pocket-filled inside back to back with the embroidered cloth.

• Baste.

• Assemble by hand with invisible stitching, with a running stitch, all around, and starting from the large sides.

• Use the baste threads around the linen cloth as reference points.

• Warning: You need to stitch regularly so that the doubling doesn’t skew.

• Iron it all to squash the stitches.

• You’re mini skein bag is finished!