Felt Box

A Handy Hold All

Make several of these in different sizes and group together on your crafting table for odds and ends or on your dresser for costume jewelry. Mine is being used to hold just my button threads.

These catch-alls have many uses around the house or office. The wool blend fabric is a very soft texture, so it is a joy to work with.

Make any size you want by adjusting the pattern.

Felt Box Materials

• ½ yard of wool fabric or wool blend (this is enough to make 4 of this size)
• ½ yard of coordinated cotton fabric (enough to do 4)
• ½ yard of medium weight Fusible Pellon
• 6 strands of cotton embroidery floss to coordinate or contrast the wool color
• Embroidery needle with an eye large enough to handle 6 strands
• Dritz Fray Check
• Pins
• Sewing machine or needle and matching thread for hand sewing
• 1 lace appliqué - optional
• Tiny pearls or rhinestones to embellish the appliqué - optional
• Iron
• Pattern template

Assembling the Felt Box

Draw your own template by following the dimensions noted above or follow the directions below to copy and use ours.

Open a new word processing program document in landscape orientation.

Click on the template above and copy. Paste the template into the new document.

Move the cursor over the lower right corner until you can grab the corner and stretch the template as far as possible. It will be a bit smaller than the dimensions given because our pattern is 12 inches long.

Print.

Cut one pattern of the wool and the pellon. Cut one of the lining fabric leaving an extra 2 inches on the sides and 1 inch along the top.

Hand stitch the appliqué to the front of the wool piece and embellish as desired.

Fold the wool piece in half matching up the sides of the box. Using a blanket stitch and the embroidery floss and needle, stitch up the sides.

After knotting the thread at the end, place a dab of Fray Check to secure the knot.

Bring up the bottom of the box to the side and blanket stitch the seam. Do the same on the other side of the box.

Lay the lining fabric out flat with the wrong side facing up. Place the pellon piece with the bumpy side down on the fabric and with a warm iron press the pellon in place.

Hand or machine-stitch the lining as before, only stitching with the right sides together this time.

Press and trim the side and bottom seams.

Trim the seams to ½".

Push the lining piece down inside the wool box. Fold the upper 1 inch of the lining to the outside edge of the box tucking under ¼" for a finished edge.

Press the lining around the top of the box. Hand stitch the lining in place around the outside of the box.