Hexagon Fabric Containers

Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. My name is Nikki Lafoy and in this video, I'm going to show you how to make these hexagon shaped fabric containers. So there's always something that you can put in a in a fabric container. Um These hexagons shaped fabric containers are super easy to make and I have a PDF for you to download with the full instructions, supplies list and the seven inch Hexagon template that you'll need to make this size of fabric container. So you can find that link in the description of this video or in the comment section. Download that and follow along with me here or you can save it for later. So the fabric requirements for these little containers are is very minimal. So you can and raid your fabric stash and find the smallish chunks of these beautiful fabrics that you know the the little bits that are left over from other projects that that need a specific small project for. So it is a great Stash Buster project and it comes together really, really quickly and like I said, I can always find something to put in these fabric containers. I don't know if I really need more, but they're so fun to make and they're beautiful and there'll always be a use for them. Whether that's in your sewing room with spools of thread and clips, or if you're using it to store your rings, jewelry, whatever, they're just super useful. So let's jump right in. And also if you're watching live and if you have any questions, comments concerns if you want to let me know what you're going to keep in your Hexagon fabric containers, let me know where you're watching from, type that into the comment section and I'll see those and of course, get any questions answered for you. So let's take a look. So here is my Hexagon template. So you'll have that in your PDF download and it's seven inches and that's from the, the lowest point to the, the opposite, highest point. So that's seven inches. And this project is really, really easy to um to change up the size of this. Actually, you can see the size difference. This, this one is made with a, a seven inch Hexagon and this one actually made with an eight inch. So it's just slightly larger. So you can make them in a bunch of different sizes for different uses. So from your Hexagon template, you want to cut out your interfacing, don't cut out your fabric from the template, cut out your interfacing. And for interfacing actually should have mentioned that we do, we need a little bit of interfacing and you can use lightweight, medium weight. This is, uh, Pelon 809 Decor Bond. So that gives the sides makes them nice and sturdy. Um, but you can use a lighter weight. I actually used fusible fleece in this one. So it's a little bit softer, but it still holds up really nicely. So, cut your hexagon from your interfacing and fuse that on to the wrong side of one of your, your fabric pieces. And you just want to make sure that when you fuse that on, you have a little bit around the outside here, at least 3/8 of an inch because that's what we're gonna be using for our general seam allowances. So make sure you have a little bit of space and then we're going to align our fabrics with right sides together. And I like to use two different fabrics. You can use the same, of course, that's up to you. So I'm going to align these and I'm just going to pin my fabrics together kind of right along the edge of the interfacing. Well, we have guests watching from Denmark and from the Netherlands, thanks for tuning in. So I'm just pinning that around the edge just to keep it stable. And then I'm going to cut this out roughly 3/8 of an inch from the edge of the interfacing. This does not have to be super exact because when we sew we're going to sew right along the edge of the interfacing. Anyway, that's going to be our line. So we're just kind of doing a general cut right now. And then when we sew this, we're going to sew, like I said, along the edge of the interfacing and we want to leave an opening centered on one side of our hexagon, roughly two inches. And I like to leave that opening along the edge that's on the straight grain. And you'll be able to tell um what side is not on the straight grain. You can kind of look at the fibers or you can give it a little tug and if it stretches a little bit, that is not your straight grain. So I'm going to put my pins perpendicular to remind me to leave that opening. Otherwise I might just sew the whole thing. It's like highway hypnosis. When you get started sewing, you just keep going. So I have to put pins in to remind myself to stop. So we're going to start sewing at one side of the opening, back stitch and so around pivoting at all of these corners and then backstitch again at the other side of our opening. So with the needle down right in that corner, lift the presser foot and pivot around. Hello to Carol from the UK. Thanks for watching and Corinne from Raleigh, North Carolina. I'm gonna take one more stitch there, pivot around my last corner. And then as I approach my other pin. I'm going to back stitch to lock that. All right. So there's my Hexagon and we want to clip all of our corners to get rid of that bulk. So when we turn this right side out, we don't have the bulk of that fabric in our corners and we're going to trim down our seam allowances by about half on all of our edges except for this one that has the opening on it. We want to leave that one alone. So we're going to trim that down clip across the corners. All right, trim my threads a little bit. All right. Now, before we turn this right side out, I like to do a little trick and I'm just going to finger press my, the seam allowance is on my opening here. Press them up, just kind of a finger press along the edge of the interfacing and it's not a necessary step. It's just helpful. So that when we turn this to the right side that helps us get a nice straight even line across that opening when we turn our turn our seam allowances into the inside. So just a little finger press, you can even take it to the iron and press it. And then we're going to turn this right side out and I like quilting cotton fabrics for this. There's a million different prints and patterns and it's good and stable. You can grab your point turner, get that in the opening to get your corners out. If you don't have a point turner tool, you can use chopsticks, knitting needles, you can use a pencil just to kind of poke out those corners. And then because I already kind of turned in and pressed, finger, pressed the seam allowances to the inside, they just kind of naturally want to hide themselves inside. So there's our Hexagon. I'm going to pull my iron in and we're going to give that a quick press around all of our edges so that our edges are nice and crisp. Esther asks, I want to do it with clear plastic inside. How do I do it? So you will not see your in interfacing. So if you wanted to do this with like a clear plastic vinyl, I think you just, you would see the interfacing but interfacing, it's just, it's white. So you would just see that on the inside. You could try it if you're using vinyl. Actually, you could try it without interfacing. The vinyl might offer enough stability and stiffness, but I haven't tried it. So I can't say for sure. All right now to close up our opening here, we're going to do some top stitching, we're going to top stitch all around the perimeter. So I'm going to start on the side that has my opening. And I actually, I don't really like to start in a corner just because I feel like it's kind of hard to meet up with at the end. So I'm top stitching and I'm going just like an eighth of an inch inch from the edge. And then same thing as when we were stitching, we want to stop with our needle down in the fabric at the corners and pivot. And as I'm approaching this corner, I, I think if I take another stitch, it'll be too far. So I'm going to bump my stitch length down a little bit. Take a stitch, I it back up and pivot and then I'm going to stitch over the stitching, beginning a couple of stitches back stitch. And there's our Hexagon Christine suggests maybe you could do three layers, the plastic over the fabric. So going back to that question, we had about doing it with clear plastic or vinyl. So we're getting some suggestions from other viewers. That is a great idea. And for putting a photo inside, that's awesome. I love that idea. OK. So we have our Hexagon all stitched beautifully. So we're going to put a line of stitching inside where the, the sides are going to turn up. So we're going to measure an inch and a quarter from the edge on all sides. So in the supplies list, you'll see, I mentioned a chalk, chalk pencil or removal fabric marker for this. So I'm going to use my, my purple disappearing ink and this is another spot where you can change it up a little bit So for this one, my slightly larger inch Hexagon, I drew this line 1.5 inches in. So it made the walls just a little bit deeper and these lines will disappear from my fabric after a while. So we're going an inch and a quarter from all the edges and then we're going to stitch over our marked line pivoting at the corners just like we have been doing. I went a little too far on that one and a back stitch to get to my pivot point and then back stitch at the end, cut my thread. So there's my, my concentric hexagon. So the last step is to create our pleats at all of the, the corners that's going to make the walls of our fabric container. So we're going to start folding. So I'm matching up my edges here, folding at the corner and we're going to stitch out a 38 inch dart. So grab your, your fabric marker again and we're going to measure out 3/8 of an inch at this upper edge and then draw the line down so that it meets your stitched concentric hexagon. And I like to use clips to hold those. So you're going to mark all of your corners the same way. So I'm gonna bring this over to the machine and we're going to back stitch at the top here and back stitch at the end as well to lock that in. So there's one, I'll do another one. So folding that making sure these are matched. We'll go 3/8 of an inch at the upper part. There's another dart. So we're going to do that all the way around and it pulls up those sides. So you get a fabric container. So keep going around and you will have yourself a little container that you can store your, whatever, store your clips or your thread spools. Let me check the chat here to make sure I didn't miss any questions. We have viewers from sunny North Florida, from Canada, from Washington. So thank you everybody for joining. If you have any other questions, type those in now, otherwise that's all there is to it. And you have your beautiful little fabric containers that you can organize your sewing room or your bathroom or wherever and they're so useful and you can use up all of your little scraps with just a couple of supplies and I just, I love them. I think they're super cute mess around with the size of it, make larger, make smaller. Um draw that concentric Hexagon, you know, uh further in, further out to make the sides taller or shorter. So there's a lot that you can do with just a Hexagon template, some fabric scraps and a little bit of interfacing. So thank you. Thank you Patricia uh saying it's so cute. So thank you everyone again for watching. I hope you enjoy this video and make sure you download that PDF that has the full instructions and supplies list and your Hexagon template. So, thanks for watching and I hope you love your Hexagon fabric containers. Thanks.