Tuesday Tutorial - Rag Quilted Tissue Box Cover

Rag Quilted Box Tissue Cover
This fits a 9 in. x 4 3/4 in. x 3 in. tissue box.

 

Supplies

Fabric - 1/3 yard

Batting -  1/4 yard

Matching Thread

Instructions

Cut 2 top pieces from fabric, 6 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.

      Cut 4 long side pieces from fabric 4 1/2 x 10 1/2 in

       Cut 4 short side pieces from fabric 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.

     Cut 1 top piece from batting 5 1/4 x 9 1/2 in
     Cut 2 long side pieces from batting 3 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
     Cut 2 short side pieces from batting 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in

With wrong sides together lay the two top fabric pieces down with the batting piece on top.  Draw an opening in the middle of the batting,  3/4 in wide x 4 1/2 in long.

Stitch on the marked line.   Cut the opening down the middle to within 1/4 inch from the ends.  Cut into the corners up to the corner seam line.  Be careful not to cut into your seam.

Trim the excess batting away.  Pull one top piece through the opening and turn the top piece right side out.

Topstitch around the opening and then machine quilt where indicated by the blue lines.

Put your side pieces together by sandwiching a piece of batting between the two fabric pieces.  Machine quilt all four side pieces in the pattern indicated by the blue lines.

With wrong sides together,  the seam line will be on the outside,  stitch both long sides to the top piece in a 3/4 inch seam allowance.  Clip the seam in 1/4 inch increments being careful not to cut into your seam line.

Repeat for the two short side pieces.

Now you will sew all four side seams together in the same way.  Clip all the seams.

Finally,  stitch all around the bottom edge in a 3/4 inch seam allowance,  clip this bottom seam for fringe and  you are done.

Bette Shaw
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