Erica's Sewing Machine Mat // TUTORIAL!

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel, I'm Erica with confessions of a homeschooler and today I have a

sewing

tutorial

for you. I'm going to show you how to make this really fun

sewing

machine

mat. You can customize the size of the pockets. to lay out whatever tools you want to have on hand this project actually only takes about an hour let's go ahead and get started okay the supplies for our project are pretty simple you'll need some batting for the main part of the mat. and then something for the pockets you'll also need some fabric for the lining and backing you'll need some fabric for the front pocket lining and then you'll need some fun little prints for the different front pockets we're going to make this one a great Buster type project - Scrap Buster because most of these as you can see are relatively small and then you also need some fabric to bind and then I have labeled all of mine with these cute little alpha bugs that I don't have than doing that, it's easier for me to keep everything organized and these numbers or letters will also correlate to the PDF pattern you can download below.

They will be in the description box below this video. They will have all the exact cuts. measurements and everything you need to make this project let's go ahead and get started right so we're going to start with a patchwork pocket and these are going to be the G pieces in your pattern so you're going to need nine of these two inch by two little ones. inch squares and you're going to sew them together in patchwork, so sew this row together, then this row together, then this row together and then sew rows one and two together and rows two and three together and you'll have a nice little patchwork square.

To do this, I like to take my second row here and place it right side down on my first row and then I'll take this to my sewing

machine

and we'll sew a quarter inch all the way up to this edge and not break the threads on the middle, we'll bring it back here, open them up and then add these, okay, here we are and I still have the little threads connecting them. I never cut them and I just took it to my ironing board and pressed the top row to the right, the middle row to the left and then the bottom row to the right and that will help nest our seam so let's take this top row and fold it down. to the middle row and then right here you can see I have one seam going this way and another seam going that way and you can just join them together like this and I'll make nice, neat points where the repackaged work panels meet.

I'm going to take this to my sewing machine and sew a quarter inch down this side, then I'm going to open it up and then fold this over, nest my seams again and sew. a quarter inch down this side and then we'll have a full panel, so here's our panel. I just took it and pressed it down nice and flat. I also trimmed it down to five by five and then we're going to put this one aside and work on the next one, so here are all my little pieces and I'm going to take my two DS pieces and then we're going to take these little ones and these are PC, I think, and we're I'm going to put one on the top right and left corners of our D piece fabrics and I'm going to put these right sides together and then I'm going to sew from corner to corner like this and from corner to corner like this in both.

You can also draw a line on the back of your PC cloths, these are quite small so you can also just improvise them if you want. Oops, I made that one, you're going the wrong way, here we go, let's also take our fabric squares F, turn them over and draw a diagonal line from corner to corner on them also on this one too and I won't sell them yet, we'll come back and we're going to add them, but essentially we're going to place them at the bottom of our d rectangles here and then we're going to stitch those lines as well, we're going to cut a quarter inch off of our stitch lines and we're going to press all these little white pieces together to reveal our heart shape.

Alright, I pressed those tips open, the next thing I'm going to do is just lay our pieces right sides out here and then sew a quarter inch right in the center and then when we open it up, we'll have a heart. I'm just going to press that seam to the other side so it fits nicely here. I went ahead and pressed it and I'm going to go ahead and set aside our heart block, okay, the next pocket we're going to make. The work is our kind of three piece pocket here, so I have all my little pieces labeled for us.

The first thing we're going to do is just take piece i and piece H. I'm just going to put them in. right sides together, it doesn't really matter which side you put H on. I went to the right side, we'll sew it 1/4 inch here and then press it open, so that's the piece I just went ahead and pressed it, that's enough simple, now we're going to work on our J piece and I have two pieces here, one is for the outside and one is for the lining, so we're going to place our lining right side down and we're going to put our piece of batting on top of that and then we're going to put the other piece right side up and you can use a fusible fleece here and just press it so it stays together or you can just put some spray on it.

Based on here so that it stays in place while we put together our pocket here, the next thing we're going to do is take our binding strip from piece K and all I've done with our piece is just fold it over. we put half of the wrong sides together and press it and we're going to take the raw edges of that and just place it against the raw edges of our little pocket. Here I'm going to run a stitch along this edge to secure all three. my layers plus my binding and I'll make it about a quarter of an inch, so we have this little piece, we're just going to press our binding up and fold it over to the other side and then we're just going to run a stitch all over this other side here just to attach it, so here's our first piece and then here's our little pocket pocket that we created and we're going to go ahead and line it up like this and you'll be able to I fixed this in place, so here's our little parcel pocket that we just created, here is our heart and here is our mosaic panel and then I lowered a square N or n L and M and we're basically going to sew all of these together so I'm just going to sew the end of this pocket and then I'm going to add the heart and the L to the M and we will add our pocket to create a long strip.

Okay, here's our finished panel and I just pressed it down so it's nice and flat and then I really just changed the placement of these two just because I felt like it made my heart stand out a little more, so it'll depend on what color fabric you use , but I thought this looked a little better, it won't change the width. of your project, if you move things around now, we're going to take the pocket lining and this was piece C, we're going to place it right side down, we're going to take our batting for the top of that and just place it nice there, this was the piece R and then we'll put our entire pocket on top of that and then you can use some wonder clips or some spray adhesive.

I have some of this 5:05 spray adhesive. I'm just going to use a little bit to keep this from moving on me. I didn't even use much of anything, but I'll keep him still long enough so that when I get close he won't go anywhere. will also add a little bit on the back, okay, and then just make sure that when you put this little side pocket on, I forgot to mention this, just make sure that this pocket is here, but you can open it and close it nice, next we're going to Take our binding strip and I just folded it in half lengthwise with the wrong sides together just like I did with our other little binding strip and pressed it and now we're going to take the raw edge of that binding strip so that the strip that opens and place put it here along the raw edge of our pocket and then just like we did with this one, we're going to sew this edge down to secure it, flip it over to the back and sew again and then it'll look like this . pocket here, so this is what our panel should look like, we have some fun pockets on the front, this guy is still open and then we have the pocket lining on the back with our nice trim on the top, here we are.

I'm going to go ahead and set this aside, the hard part is over and now we're going to take our pieces A and B, which are the front and back of our mat, and I'm going to sandwich this with another piece of batting, like this that I'm going to remove one of these pieces and try to zoom it out here so you can see what's happening and don't worry about this here, this is just a seam. I didn't have enough fabric so I had to see my piece together so I could make it the right size, so we're going to go ahead and lay one of our pieces right side down, take our piece of batting and place it on top and then we'll a take our other outside piece and place it on top right side up and then I'm going to use, you can again use pins or spray spray here, it's totally up to you.

I'm going to take my spray again 5:05 here. I'll just take it off and add a little bit of spray to hold it in place and then I'll take it to my machine and just quilt it a little bit just for decoration. I'm going to turn it over and do the same thing on the back, just add a little bit here. I'm not going to add a lot of spray, just enough to keep it in place. Okay, so I'll just take this little bit. some sandwich here to my machine and I'm going to quilt a little bit.

Of course, you can do whatever you want. I'll probably just make some straight lines following these diagonals, but you can free motion quilt or whatever you want. Do it here, if you don't like quoting anything, you can use a piece of fusible fleece and just fuse it with your fabric and then you won't have to quilt anything, so I'm done quilting my piece here. and I just followed these diagonals, so it's nothing very fancy, but it's all glued together. The next thing we're going to do is take our little patchwork pocket here and we're going to line up the raw edges here at the bottom. from our panel and you can use some wonderful Clips here or you can use pins or whatever.

I always like to put some wonderful clips in just to keep it in place so it doesn't move on me okay and this is where you can decide I don't want to block that one down here is where you can decide where you want your pockets so I'm going to open this up and I'm going to sew right on this seam and I'm going to backstitch right here at the top and that's going to create two pockets from this panel. I'm going to sew this seam in this scene. In fact, I'm going to sew in all the places where I have these little pet panels, you could actually just sew. from here to here and have a big panel, you couldn't do it at all and just have a huge panel, you know, you can make small thin panels that are useful for pins and seam rippers, things like that, it's totally up to you how many little pockets you want throughout this I'm going to go ahead and just follow my sewing lines and make one in all the places that I have, you know, attached as a larger piece here okay, here we are, this is what it looks like and now we have All of these little individual pockets here are super cute and this one is still flapping here in the breeze, don't worry about that, we're going to take care of it in just a minute, we're going to go ahead and set our panel aside now and let's go. to prepare our binding and by the way this is piece P, if I say any of the wrong letters, ignore me and do what is written in the PDF download pattern because sometimes I take the wrong letter, so here are both . my pieces and these are just two and a half away from the fabric pieces and we're just going to take them and I'm going to make a straight binding.

There's a lot of different ways to do this guys, but we're I'm going to take these to lay them next to each other and then I'm going to sew them down here a quarter of an inch to make a big long strip and then I'm going to take this to my ironing board and again like we did it. With the other binding, I'm going to press it lengthwise like this so that the right sides show that the wrong sides are pressed together. Alright guys, here is our binding completely prepared. The next thing we have to do is join our project and then we are there.

It's going to be done, so I'm going to start, I think probably up here, actually, because there will be less volume, there's a lot of volume down here and I'm going to take my binding and line the open or raw. border against the top of my project here and somewhere in the middle is where I'm going to start now. I'm going to place my piece of fabric right here, but I'm not actually going to start sewing until it's closer to here and See why when we're going to join those ends together, so make yourself a nice tail here and start sewing maybe a few inches from the corner, we're going to sew a quarter inch and then I'll show you how to handle them. corners well,like I said, my tail is free up here about halfway and I'm going to start down here in the corner and I'm going to go ahead and do a back stitch right here and then we're going to sew both together. and we'll stop when we get 1/4 inch away from where this edge is okay, so there we'll leave the needle in the down position, lift the presser foot and turn it. about 45 degrees doesn't have to be perfect and then I'm just going to sew back a little bit to lock it in place and cut our thread.

Now we're going to take out our project here and rotate it and then I'm just going to put my finger right here and I'm going to take my binding strip and I'm going to fold it over and pull it so that you have kind of a diagonal seam here and this raw edge now lines up with this edge. unfinished to leave my finger there. and then I'm going to pull it down towards me, okay, and what that's going to create is this little triangle right here that's going to be our miter to the corner and we're going to go ahead and keep sewing.

We'll do the same thing when we get to the next corner, just make sure it lines up nicely, so this is our last edge where we'll meet our other piece here, so I just stitched a few inches. I did a back stitch and then I'll show you how to join these two edges together. Okay, so here are our open edges and we need to be able to join them together and there are a couple of different ways to do this. I'm just going to make a straight stitch. join because it's easier and this is a small project but you can do it however you feel most comfortable.

You're going to lay this piece down nice and flat, smooth it out, and then lay this piece down. on top of that and you want them to overlap about a quarter of an inch and it's probably a little hard for you to see, but I can see that my 1/4 inch mark is right there, okay and you just want them. just make sure everything is nice and flush when you mark your quarter inch. I can see my kind of finger pressure mark there. I'm going to go ahead and take my ruler, place it right on the pressure mark on my finger and trim off this excess.

Okay, let's put that aside and now you can see that they overlap by about a quarter of an inch. Now we're going to take these two pieces and we're going to make sure that they don't twist or anything and just to put them together like this and then you can open them up, basically, just putting them right sides together, just like we did with the soda joint initially and then we're just going to take this to our machine and we're just going to sew one. a quarter of an inch down, these two are sure these pieces and like I said, just make sure they're not twisted or anything like that and you should be good to go.

I think it's helpful if you fold your project this way when you carry it. Place it on the machine, it releases the tension on these parts as they are a little tight. You can also place a pin here if you want so they don't move when you get to the machine. Well, I went ahead and just sewed so fast. I didn't think you guys saw it. I'm not fancy at all, but now when we open this up, okay, here's a little bit of a wider view so you can see, so here's our binding if you didn't twist anything.

It should look like this. I just finger pressed my seam open there and then now we can take this all back to our machine and just finish sewing along this open edge and my stitch line stopped right here so I'm just going to back up about an inch or so, make a back stitch and then move forward. Now we're going to turn our project over and we're going to take that binding out on the other side and just like we did with our pocket, I'm just going to turn it over this back here, it doesn't really matter where you start and secure that edge and you can also sew this by hand.

I have a hand stitch binding

tutorial

. Okay, when you get to the first corner down here, you'll go. to just push your finger to get that corner out is like this to start, just flip it up and then we're going to fold the bottom strip, put your finger in there and then fold the side strip to make this little mitered edge on the right. OOP here and when I get to that edge I will usually do a back stitch, leave the needle in the down position, raise the presser foot, turn your project and then you can continue sewing.

Okay guys, that's it for this project, the last thing we need. All you have to do is simply fill this guy with goodies and start sewing. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you did make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe that way. I know I should keep making these fun projects for you. Thank you very much for joining. Me today and I'll see you next time.