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Tutorial: Vintage sewing basket liner

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Tutorial: Vintage sewing basket liner

Tutorial: Vintage sewing basket liner

Mary Beth from RetroMonkeys shares a vintage project at the Pattern Patter blog for making a sewing basket liner.  The liner turns a covered basket into a vintage style sewing basket.  It has pockets all the way around to organize your notions and a padded backing on the lid that serves as a pincushion, and leaves a large enough space inside to hold a small project.   A basket with a cover is fairly easy to find at craft or thrift stores.  The pattern will fit a basket that measures 19 1/2″ x 12″ x 12″, but you can easily adapt it to fit a basket of any size.  The pattern originally appeared in a 1947 Good Housekeeping Needlework Encyclopedia.

Click below to get the free vintage project:

Free Pattern Friday – Sewing Basket, by RetroMonkeys

[photo from Good Housekeeping, digitized by RetroMonkeys]

Have you read?

Easy Cosmetics Bag Sewing Pattern

The bag is simple, uses very little fabric (about 2/3rds of a fat quarter), has no fussy inside pockets (although you can add your own if you like), and takes me well less than 30 minutes to print the pattern, cut out and sew. But quick and simple doesn’t mean it’s not awesome!

It’s the sort of bag that is versatile enough to be used for lots of applications, not just cosmetics and toiletries. Keep all your pens and pencils in order, use it for a small first aid kit for the car, keep it in your desk at work for a few headache pills and other personal supplies.

Make some for yourself, for gifts or to sell.