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Use scrap cloth pieces and pretty prints to make a cool DIY fabric zipper pouch to carry your essentials in style.
Make a DIY fabric zipper pouch to carry in all your bags and purses. Fill them with makeup essentials, stationery, and so much more. Have carefree travel with pretty pouches and keep all your valuables safe, avoiding any spillage.
DIY Fabric Zipper Pouch Ideas You’ll Love
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Essentials You’ll Need
- Crochet hook
- Assorted leftover yarn
- Tapestry needle
- Stitch markers
- Measuring tape
- Colorful yarns
- Crochet Kit for Beginner
1. Zip Lock Pouch Swing Pattern
For your quick library trips, here is a funky yet classy fabric zipper pouch. You can fit all your stationery or even make matching book sleeves. How cool is that? Line it with a soft fleece for a better look.
2. Patchwork Sewing Pouch Pattern
Do you have a bunch of leftover fabrics in your basket? Then gather them up and sew them together to make a practical sewing project. Made from multiple pieces, you can cut them into triangles or squares. Make sure to keep all their sides equal!
3. Simple Rectangular Ziplock Purse
Let’s keep it simple and quick with an easy sewing pattern. Here is a simple pouch idea that requires basic sewing skills, thread, a needle, and a plastic zipper. Use your leftover fabric or start fresh for a newer look.
4. Travel-Friendly Zipper Pouch
Planning a trip soon? Make a set of half-moon pouches with side handles. You can use pretty printed fabric filled with lovely patterns all over. Wouldn’t it be useful to keep your valuables safe? Follow the instructions by Sewing Times.
5. Fabric Zipper Pouch Case Pattern
Look at how these pouches open to become a wide box! Isn’t that cool? You can easily store a lot of your mini-sized valuables in here. Minki Kim lined the complete pattern with fleece and soft fabric inside and out of these small boxes.
6. Cylindrical Fabric Case
You must have seen cylindrical tin cases, but have you seen a simple fabric and a plastic zipper design? In this roll-up case, you can access all your small stationery without emptying the whole box.
Get creative with this roll-up design and an easy sunglass case.
7. Fabric Zipper Pouch Pattern
Not all your essentials have to hide behind a thick fabric, and you don’t have to look for them among all your other things. Here is a small window by QuarterInch Mark for it.
Keep your essentials safe and accessible by sewing a toothbrush case along with this funky pattern.
8. Fabric Bow Zip Pouch
Planning to make something more feminine for yourself or as a gift? Then decorate a simple zip-lock fabric pouch with a cute bow on top! Now that’s a creative and practical present idea. Follow the instructions by The Craft Patch Blog to make this.
9. White Mini Pouches Set
Wouldn’t you love a matching set of mini pouches carrying all your valuables? For this gifting season, make some funky fish projects and these soft fabric pouches for a special present filled with mini heart appliqués. Polka Dot Chair used cotton canvas fabric for it.
10. Slanting Zipper Pouch Pattern
Running a little behind on making a present? Then pull out your beginner-level sewing skills to make a practical gift like a zipper pouch by Sewing Times. All you need are some pretty printed fabric pieces and a gold-colored zipper.
Here are some more pouch patterns for you!
11. Floral DIY Fabric Zipper Pouch
Not sure what to do with your leftover fabric stash? Make a useful zipper pouch for all your makeup products. That will make your quick touch-ups easier. You can use any kind of fabric and Dear Creatives‘ simple instructions to make a cool pouch pattern.
12. Kitty Face Fabric Pouch
If all your purses have fun patterns, then why have a normal zipper pouch? Fill your bags with amazing sewing patterns like this one by Hello Sewing. Pick up a soft fabric and make a kitty face design on it, then cut the upper and inner pieces and sew them together!
As we end this guide, gather all the cloth pieces you already have and start making a sewing pattern that you’ll actually use. Also, check out these no-sew designs that you can make.