Thanks for all the lovely comments on our Emergency Zippered Pouch. We had a number of requests for a tutorial so you can make your own. They really are a handy size and perfect to put a few first aid supplies in your handbag.
Best of all, they only take an hour to make! They would make a nice gift with a gift card, cash or some other emergency supply inside!
Finished pouch is: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (7 x 11.5 cm)
Materials:
- 4 charm squares (5 x 5 inches), two each for pouch outer and lining
- small piece of flannel for wadding
- scrap of white linen
- scrap of red homespun
- scrap of ribbon
- split ring
- 4 inch zipper
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| Materials |
Cut fabrics:
White Linen – cut four squares, 1 x 1 inch
Red Homespun – cut 2 squares, 1 x 1 inch; cut rectangle 1 x 2 inch.
Outer fabric – cut 2 rectangles, 5 x 3 inches.
Lining fabric – cut 2 rectangles, 5 x 3 inches
Flannel – cut 2 rectangles, 5 x 3 inches
Ribbon – cut one piece, 2 inches in length.
Sew Red Cross Patch:
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| Red Cross Patch Pieces |
Referring to the photograph for placement, stitch a white square onto opposite sides of a red square. Press seams towards the red square.
Stitch a red/white unit to either side of the red rectangle. Press.
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| Press under seams |
Install Zipper
With the right sides of the lining piece facing, pin together and mark the rounded corners. Stitch the lining sides and bottom together. Trim and clip corners. Press under 1/4 inch along the top edge.
For more photographs of the Emergency Pouch – check out What’s Your Emergency?
You can find more of our free tutorials here, and we also have a range of pdf sewing and quilting patterns in our etsy store.
I’m so happy you made a tutorial for this! I was loving it when it went up on the blog last week, and now I can make one for myself! AWESOME! x
Great tutorial, actually the best I’ve seen in a long time very well set out!! I’ve avoided zips for a long time now but you make them look soo easy. Thanks ladies.
great tutorial…love it
Oh they are so cute…
Thanks for the great tute. I think I will make one of these for a little something extra to put in a friend’s birthday card next month.
Thank you s muchh for creaing this tutorial!! I love itandIm definitely goin to make some of these for myself and my daughter too! YAY! I cant wait!
You are always so generous with your tutorials! This is really an adorable pouch, and such a great idea for organizing first aid supplies. Thanks for sharing such a cute project with your fans!
Adorable! I must make one
I love useful and cute ! many thanks for the tut.
Do you by any chance know the name of the cream color dot fabric ?
Lot this! Thanks for the tutorial.
Do you make them to sell? I do not sew and would love a few.
You must have read my mind. I was just imaging this very thing but with a special little tweak. I will definitely need to use this tutorial when I create my emergency pouch because I haven’t even sewn a zipper yet. I will surely link to this wonderful post. I’m so glad I found this! Great job!
Very cute pouches! (love the name of your blog!) TAsh (www.littleladybird.com.au)
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Vielen Dank für die schöne Anleitung! Ich habe ein etwas grösseres Täschchen genäht und in hier:
http://kb-design-blog.blogspot.com/2012/04/notfall-set-taschchen.html
in meinem Blog gezeigt.
Liebe Grüsse
Brigitte
this is so cute it hurts!
great tute
i cannot wait to make one!!!
thank you so much
Great work and tutorial even for the ones that know little about sewing …!
Thank-you for this tutorial it will be handy for many different items.I am glad i saw your site on sew can she tutorials.You definitely {?} have a new follower.Thank-you again. Becky
Hi Lisa and Sarah,
I just found your lovely blog and since now I’m your fan!!!! Thanks so much for sharing this really cute emergency pouch tutorial. I’m just crazy for sewing some .
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A friendly hug from Portugal
Ana Lopes
I need a new coin pouch. This will work great. thanks for sharing.
I love this tutorial…the little emergency bag couldn’t be cuter. I found you from sew mama sew I’m excited to see all of your great projects
This is great. I always get frustrated because the boxes that come with bandits break so easily and are hard to open and close. This is both cute and easily assessable.
love this little purse, i had a go at my own version, but it turned out a bit wonky! pics here http://abimakes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/tiny-zipped-pouch.html
Hey that’s very nice. It would be a perfect gift to my friends who were medical aides.
-Gwyn Stiles
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I’m making this for a friend; it’s almost finished and it looks adorbs! Will post photos on my blog after her birthday.
Cute, cute, cute! I never can figure out how to make what’s in my head. You did that! Need this for my cell phone and stadium manual to hook onto my belt at work for the Texas Ranger Baseball Club. With a slight shape and size adjustment, stiffer fabric in team colors with a sleeve on the back for my belt it will be perfect!
Love it! Top save time I made my cross out of two pieces of 1/2 inch red ribbon and made it just big enough for an epi-pen.
This is SO cute, and being a nursing student I absolutely have to make this! One question: how did you make the pouch lining? I would have assumed you’d made it the same way you made the outside of the pouch, but in the picture they are different shapes so I’m confused. I’m a total beginner so bear with me if this is obvious!
Hi AC – the lining is made the same way. Then you fold down 1/4 inch around the top opening of the lining, then place it inside the pouch and hand stitch it close to the inside of the zipper. Hope this helps to clarify it for you! Good luck with you nursing studies!