Taylor Made: Crayon Roll - a Guest Tutorial

Hi Guys! A few months ago my friend emailed me with pictures of a little sewing project she did. She is very talented but she doesn't have a blog so she asked if she could share her tutorial with you all! Of course she can!! She is doing a ton of DIY stuff for her wedding, including the Lingerie Bag (one of my very first tutorials) for her bridesmaids. She is having a destination wedding, in only a few weeks so these portable Crayon Rolls are going to be perfect kid favors! I even have them on the to craft list for next week. Thanks AnnaLeigh!

Hi Taylor Made Readers, this is AnnaLeigh :) I saw this idea for a crayon roll on Etsy. They were selling party favors for a children’s party. I thought they were so cute and easy to make I decided to create them for myself and have them available along with a little activity book I found for the children at my wedding. The ones on Etsy were for only 5 crayons but as a kid I know I would want all 8, not just 5. So you can make the crayon roll with as many pockets as you want. This project was a great stash buster. I didn’t buy a single thing for this project, everything came from a stash. Ok let’s get started. :)

Supplies:

Fabric (I used 3 different fabrics, you can mix and match or however you want to do it)

Ribbon-approx 17” (the Etsy crayon rolls used an elastic hair band but I had ribbon and didn’t want to buy hair bands just for this. If you do use ribbon, I wouldn’t use satin, it won’t stay tied; it needs some sort of friction. If you have the option, I would use the elastic because kids are very capable with tying knots in the ribbon etc and I would hate for you have to cut open your beautiful creation but I went ahead with the ribbon because I’m not using them for my kids and I won’t have to be dealing with it :)

Thread

Sewing machine

Rotary cutter and measurers

Scissors

At the ironing board and cutting board:

1) Press all fabric.

2) Decide which fabric will go where and cut 3 pieces total:

a) pocket piece 8.5” x 5.5”

b) outside piece 8.5” x 5”

c) inside piece 8.5” x 5”

*If you want to do more or less crayons, just add or take away an inch from the length for each crayon. For example, if you only want to do 5 crayons the 8.5” length would go down to 5.5”*

3) fold the pocket piece (a) in half length wise and press.

At the sewing machine:

1) Pin the pocket piece (a) to the lower half of the inside piece (c) raw edges aligned and the fold of the pocket piece (a) toward the middle. Baste pieces together with about a 1/8” seam.

After you baste, it should look like this:

2) Now we are going to sew the crayon pockets. On the pocket piece (a), I started from the raw edge and sewed to the fold. Be sure to backstitch your pockets for strength. Kids will be kids. The two outside pockets are going to be 1¼” and the rest will be 1”.

3) On the completed inside/pocket piece (either the right or left side is fine, I did this on the right side), fold the ribbon in half and pin it about a ¼” from the edge on the wrong side of the fabric.

4) Baste with a 1/8” seam.

5) Fold the ribbon over to have it run across the front of the fabric and pin it (you can also baste again if you’d like).

6) Now take your outside piece (b) and place it on top of the inside/pocket combination, right sides facing each other. Align the raw edges and pin together. (Make sure the ribbon in tucked inside)

7) Being sure the leave a 1.5-2” opening (marked by my pins), sew a ¼” seam around the project. Be sure not to sew the ribbon into your seam.

¼” seam:

8) Flip your project right side out through the hole you left. With a dull pencil or chop stick, poke your corners out until you are satisfied. Press flat.

9) Sew a 1/8” seam all the way around your project to make it a little more professional and also to close the hole you had left.