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Claire from Moth & Sparrow shares a free pattern for making a trio of super cute baby hats with animal faces appliqued on them. She includes patterns for making an owl, a raccoon, and a fox. These are SOOOO cute!!! The patterns are sized for a 6 month old baby, but you could adjust it up or down as needed. Get the free pattern.
[photo from Moth & Sparrow]
[via Tricia from Leafy Treetop Spot. Check out the little animal hats she made using these patterns!]
I love a good patchwork project but I’m not always wanting to take on making a whole quilt. Sometimes I want to just make some patchwork squares and turn it into something pretty. That could be lots of things besides quilts. Like this adorable patchwork fold over pouch! Quilted clothing and accessories have become super trendy lately. Melissa at Polka Dot Chair created this project and she has a tutorial showing how you can sew this pretty patchwork pouch.
If larger patchwork blocks on a quilt are pretty, these smaller scale patchwork blocks in this pouch are sending me over the moon. They’re just so sweet! And because they’re made from half square triangles, they’re actually pretty quick to sew together. Her tutorial includes how to create 8 of these half square triangles at a time.
This is a great project for using up your scraps! This project uses a ½ yard of a solid fabric and then a total of ½ yard of scraps of various prints. As long as your scraps are big enough to cut a 5 ¾” square then you can use them. And pairing the scraps with a solid color in all of your blocks helps keep the look both scrappy but also cohesive.
And while the small pinwheel blocks are perfect for this project, I think you could also substitute other quilt blocks – or even some orphan blocks left over from quilt projects.
When you’ve got all your blocks made, it’s easy to sew them into a fold over pouch. It’s basically a larger version of a simple zipper pouch. If you’ve ever sewn a zipper pouch before, you know how satisfying they are to sew. Quick, easy, and always useful! And in this case, a stylish patchwork pouch!
Go to Polka Dot Chair to see how to sew this adorable patchwork pinwheel fold over pouch.
[photo credit: Polka Dot Chair]
I love the Animal Hats but how do I download the pattern pieces? Im new at this. 🙂
Follow the link from this post to the author’s blog. In the first paragraph, the words “the owl”, “the fox”, and “the raccoon” are actually links to PDF files for the pattern. You can either click the link to load the pattern in your browser, or right-click and select Save File As… to save the PDF files to your computer. Hope that helps! –Anne
Lindos!!!!
Muchas gracias.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Very cute! Thanks!