I love to embellish my pieces with stitching and beads. All of those threads and bead tubes, the needles and thimble jumble up on a tray. Cute little Blossom Bins organize your supplies and look great at the same time — AND they are super easy to make.
I’ve designed the Blossom Bin pattern in three sizes – from tiny to medium and large. The tiny is perfect for making sure you don’t lose your favorite thimble, or turn it into a cute little pin cushion (directions below).
These Blossom Bins are made with Kraft-Tex. To learn more about Kraft-Tex, read through our article that covers everything you’d like to know about Kraft-Tex. It’s referred to as ‘paper fabric’.
How to Make Blossom Bins
Blossom bins are perfect little containers to keep your pins, bobbins, beads or other small notions and accessories. They would be great for putting your rings and earrings at night.
The bins come in three (3) sizes. You could enlarge the pattern on your printer to make even larger sizes.
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I used Kraft-tex, but you could use any sturdy fabric that doesn't ravel. The benefit of using Kraft-tex is that it is quite sturdy and keeps it's stiffness, as well as being washable.
I stamped on the Kraft-tex, and made one of the smaller bins into a pin cushion! These are super easy to make, and you'll use them for all sorts of stuff in your creative adventures! I love keeping my thimble in one of the small ones so it has a 'home'.
Materials
- 5-inch by 12-inch piece of Kraft-Tex or other sturdy fabric that doesn't ravel
- Thread
Tools
- Fabric marking pen, I used a Frixion pen
- Sewing machine
- Iron
- Ironing board
Instructions
- Print the pattern, link above.
Lay out the pattern and trace the blossoms with a fabric marker. NOTE: Always check a marker first on a scrap or corner to make sure it removes as expected from your fabric. If you are new to Kraft-Tex, don't use pins - they will make holes.
- Finger press the petals to the center to form the bottom. It's easier to do it now while the blossom is flat.
- Now, go to your sewing machine. Using your 1/4-inch quilters foot, sew each of the petals together with wrong sides together.
- Do this will all of the flower petals, for all three (3) bins. You may need to fiber press the bottoms a little bit more to keep them in place to start. Here are the finished blossom bins! Perfect for those little things around your studio!
- The straight sided blossom bins were sewn up about 3/4 of the petal. I sewed the mostly open bins only about 1/2 way up the side and then curled the edges by rolling the Kraft-Tex around my fingers.
You can use the polka dot on the inside or the outside of the bin. The little containers look different based on how far up you sew the petals together, and if you roll the petals. Both serve different purposes. Have fun!
I wanted to make the plain Kraft-Tex into polka dots to make them more fun. Kraft-Tex takes to surface design really well.
How to stamp on Kraft-Tex
You can print and stamp Kraft-Tex with either textile or acrylic paints. I chose to use pencil eraser to stamp little dots all over the piece. I used Kraft-Tex Hand-dyed and Pre-washed in Linen color.
With a Gelli plate and brayer to lay down a light layer of paint, you can then stamp on your textile.
Here is the finished piece of Kraft-Tex with polka dots all over.
BONUS: Make a Blossom Bin Pin Cushion
Find a bottle cap that fits inside the Tiny Blossom Bin.
Take your tiny Blossom Bin pattern and cut a circle about 1/2″ larger than the pattern in a fabric for the center of your pin cushion.
Take a thread and do a running stitch around the edge of the circle.
Fill the bottle cap with cotton or ground nut shells and turn upside down into the circle of fabric.
Pull the gathering threads around the cap and tie off the threads to secure.
Place in the tiny Blossom Bin and have a cute little pin cushion for your stitching!
Now – time to stitch!
Now it’s time to put them all on a tray, go outside and enjoy listening to the birds and do some hand stitching!
Browse through more Kraft-Tex tips and projects on Create Whimsy.
