Temari Ball Bag - Craft Leftovers

Temari Ball Bag
Craft Leftovers
I saw a new book on Temari at the public library. Dang it. I just had to bring it home. Then I
just had to read it. And you see where this is going, I just had to try it! I collected up all my
temari ball making supplies and soon realized that I would need something to put them in.
I’m normally okay with zip lock bags, but for whatever reason, I wanted a temari ball bag that
would have all my essentials for the ball I was working on. The other driving factor is that a
temari ball is just the kind of favorite thing that my ferrets love to steal and hide and re-hide
until they have really done a number on it. So a zipper was needed too.
Ingredients:
Two 9” x 9” pieces of fabric for liner
Two 9” x 9” pieces of fabric for outside
18” x 2” piece of liner fabric
18” x 2” piece of outside fabric
1” bias tape maker
8” zipper (shortened 9” zipper)
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Directions:
Use the one inch bias tape maker to make the straps from the 2” x 18” pieces of fabric. Sew together with
right sides together by straight stitching along the long sides of the fabric. Figure 1.
Sew a 1/2” hem along the top of all 9” x 9” fabric pieces.
Sew liner pieces right sides together along the 2 sides
and bottom. Repeat for the outer fabric.
Figure 1.
Make a flat bottom for your temari bag by matching
the side seam to the bottom seam and then flattening
to form a triangle. At the point where the triangle is 3”
wide, fold and press. Stitch fold to hold in place. Figure 2.
Repeat for the other corner as well as the corner of you
other fabric.
Turn outer fabric right side out.
Pin zipper and strap in place between the liner and
outer fabric. Figure 3.
Figure 2.
Open up zipper and sew into bag by sewing around the
full hem of the bag. Sew a second round of stitching for
good measure.
Load up with your temari supplies and you are ready to
enjoy your temari crafting anywhere, anytime!
Figure 3.
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