Fabric Storage Pots
Make this perfect trio of fabric storage pots and brighten any room in your home. You can use them to tidy up your spools of thread in your craft room, or even just pop a plant in there for that extra flash of colour. Whatever you use them for, this is the perfect project to use up that pile of fabric remnants you have hanging around!
We used circular items around the home to create 3 different size bases and made the lining deeper so that you have a pretty flash of colour at the rim. You can fold them over at the top too to reduce the height if preferred.
You can make smaller ones to hold the Make up Remover Pads too.
Fabric requirements:
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0.4 metre Cotton drill
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0.5 metre Fabric lining. Or less if using 3 different colours
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0.5 metre Fusible or sew in medium/ heavy interfacing
Finished sizes:
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Large pot (20cm)
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Medium pot (16cm)
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Small pot (13cm)
Seam allowance is 1cm
Step One
Outer pot (cotton drill): Sew the short ends of your rectangle together with the right sides together to form a cylinder shape. Press the seams open. Do the same for your inner pot (lining)
Step Two
By folding in half and half again, find the quarters of the circular base and mark. Do the same to the cylinder using the seam as the CB. Pin the base to the cylinder with right sides together matching up the quarter marks. Sew around the base seam.
Step Three
Clip into the seam allowance all the way around the base to release any tension (this will help it to sit better).
Step Four
Tuck one pot inside the other one making sure the right sides are together and pin. Sew them together ensuring that you leave a 10cm gap for turning through.
Step Five
Turn everything through to the right side and press the seam allowance and tuck it into the gap. Slip stitch the gap closed with a needle and thread.
Or if you prefer you can edge stitch is closed using the sewing machine.
Step Six
Tuck the lining inside and arrange the turned edge.
