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Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

Visit my Cricut home page and cut out all your parts. https://design.cricut.com/landing/profile/61885f9fce8cbd26112567e4 The sections in pink are external sections and the pieces in green are all internal sections.

You will also need heavy woven fusible stabilizer if you are making this from cotton . You will bond this to the lining section of the pouch.

Fabric external 10″ x 10″

Fabric internal 10″ x 10″

Binding 10″ x 10″

Fabric for loop1 5 ” x 5″

Binding 1.5″ x 3″

heavy woven fusible stabilizer 10″ x 10″ adhere to the internal

HTV vinyl for pressing to the external section of pouch. The design used is not designed by me its a cricut pattern

zipper at least 8″ long

Cut all the pieces off on your cricut maker the two shapes are fabric and the design is vinyl. The stablizer should be attached to the internal section.

Before adhering the design place the external and internal sections together wrong sides out and stitch lines down, this will attach the two units as one piece.

Adhere the design with your cricut press if you have one, the settings that cricut suggests are 315 degress F, preheat cotton for 5 secs the press the vinyl for 30 secs. Remove the liner once it’s cool to touch.

Create your loop like you would a strap for a belt. Find the center of your pouch and sew a scant quarter.

Place zipper face down and sew into pace at each end

Cut off excess zipper add binding

Cut all four parts of the zipper so the material at the end of the zipper is the same length and it tapers out to the inside corner

Pull one side up towards the zipper and sew all the way around.

Turn right sides out

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Using your Cricut maker for sewing – Sew a Boxy pouch

9th December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

You will also need heavy woven fusible stabilizer if you are making this from cotton . You will bond this to the lining section of the pouch.

What you need:

Fabric 7.5″ x 9.5″ external

Binding 1 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ x 2

Binding 1 1/2″ x 5″ x 2

Binding 1 1/2″ x 3″ x 4

heavy woven fusible stabilizer 7.5″ x 9.5″ adhere to the internal

HTV vinyl for pressing to the external section of pouch

#5 zipper at least 9″ long

Cut all the pieces off on your cricut maker the two rectangles are fabric and the design is vinyl.

Adhere the design with your cricut press if you have one the settings that cricut suggests is

Holographic Iron on, base material cotton 100%

Using the cricut pressing mat. 330 degrees F for 30 seconds. Pre heat cotton on pressing mat for 5 seconds. Firm press and slowly remove liner when cool to the touch.

once you have pealed off the plastic liner after cooling, Place the External and internal fabrics wrong sides together and quilt some lines in between the vinyl pieces in order to keep the external and internal sections together.

Attach the 1 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ binding pieces to each end of the 7 1/2″ accessory pouch.

I use zipper tape, if you are using a regular zipper cut ends and pull zipper completely off. sew each end separately. Teeth facing up and external pouch facing up with excess tape on either side. Sew the tape on the back holding it together then sew again closer

to the zipper. Complete for both sides.

With internal fabric facing you fold each side to the centre, Put pull back on. Turn inside out and make sure your zipper is in the center

Stitch into place both ends of the pouch. Then attach 5″ binding to each end

Still working on the wrong side, draw four 1″ squares on all corners of the pouch.

Cut then push opposite sides together and sew. do with all four corners

Turn everything right sides out and your pouch is finished

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Using your Cricut maker for sewing – Sew a clam shapped zipper pouch

8th December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

You will also need heavy piece stabilizer if you are making this from cotton . You will bond this to the lining section of the pouch.

What you need:

1 piece of cotton fabric for the external

1 piece of cotton fabric for the internal

1 piece of heavy weight woven stabilizer

1 No. 5 zipper 11″ inches long

2 pieces of binding 1 1/2 ” x 11″ that matches your internal fabric.

2 pieces of binding 1 1/2 ” x 4″ that matches your internal fabric.

2 2″ x 2″ fabric internal

First of all bond the stabilizer to the pouch. If you don’t add stabilizer your pouch will be really floppy and have no structure to it. Cut all the parts on you cricut I used the fabric bonded setting applied more pressure and added the rotary blade in the machine. DO NOT stabilizer the binding pieces.

Once complete this is what you will be left with.

Taking the external section and the internal section pin them wrong sides together and quilt straight lines down them. This will stitch them both together.

Taking the two side sections pull them into the clam shell sides clip into place and sew. The fabric will be external sides out. Do the same for the other side

pin binding all the way around the external of your pouch then sew into place.

Using a Number 5 zipper 11″ long. put the 2″ x 2″ tabs on both ends

Fold over the raw edges first

The wrap around the zipper on both sides evenly and stitch into place

Attach the zipper the tape is on the internal side of the fabric. dont’s sew the tabs down start a little bit after. After the main body tabs

attach the zipper to the internal side of the pouch

There is mean’t to be a gap where the zipper flops out

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Using your cricut maker for sewing – Sewing a Circle Pouch

6th December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

You will need :

Two pieces for the external

Two pieces for internal

Pellon Decor Bond 809 Iron on Stabilizer

1.5 x 20″ for the binding

Two 1.5″ x 91/4″ one for external and one for internal

10″ long zipper 5# zipper which is more or less 1 1/4″.

Press the Decor Bond to the back of both external circles and one of the 2″ x 8″ cut all section out with your cricut. I used setting Fabric Cotton, Bonded. Clicked the more pressure and changed the blade from fin point to rotary cutter. Double check that the circle is where you want it to cut on the mat with the fabric. I did two passes with my cricut cut.

Quilt one external section and one internal section together wrong sides together, do the same for the other two circles. I just did straight lines.

Attach the handle on one of the external sections. Find the center of you pouch I folded in 1 in on each end to hide any raw edges.

Now quilt the 1.5″ x 8″ wrong sides together fold in half and find the center, find a center point at the raw edge of one of your circles. Match the marks together and with the external fabrics facing each other stitch into place about an inch on both side of the mark. It may be easiser at this point to wonder clip the fabric into place and ease it in around the curve. If you did clip everything into place un clip. Take your zipper and sew one end to the fabric section then do the same with the other. I applied a binding piece on that zipper part. The turned over the zipper to the right side and top stitched the zipper into place.

Turn the whole pouch inside out. grip all the way around with pins or grips and stitch into place.

do the same with the other side of the circle. Before you do make sure your zipper is OPEN!

I bind the inside and that is completely up to you just hate looking at raw seams.

You finished!

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Using your cricut maker for sewing : Sewing a Boxy small but wide pencil case

4th December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

Visit my Cricut home page https://design.cricut.com/landing/profile/61885f9fce8cbd26112567e4 and cut out all your parts. The sections in pink are external sections and the pieces in purple are all internal sections.

You will need:

Fabric Cotton for one external section, one internal section and binding

Tab for bottom of zipper 5″ x 4″

If you are using the tag, only use on piece of stabilizer and use light weight low quality for the binding to reduce bulk.

Medium weight fusible stabilizer

Zipper at least 12 inchs long

Start by fusing the Medium weight fusible stabilizer, this stabilizer is like thick cotton with a fusible glue on one side. It isn’t wooly so you can cut it fused to the back of your cotton. I’m going to fuse both sides. The one piece you DON’T fuse is the binding strip. Always Click on the edit screen to see where the cricut is going to cut so you can line up correctly.

Cut all the sections with your cricut. I cut all pieces face up, and secure them a little more with painters tape. Setting Cotton, Bonded. Don’t mirror. Go to edit tools and change to the rotary blade. Pressure setting more. I get my cricut to cut three times.

Pin both sections wrong sides together, quilt stitch them together so they at attached to each other.

Pull the zipper pull off, so you are working with one side of the zip at a time. Place on side of the zipper with teeth facing down and the tape towards the seam, pin and sew in place on the external piece of fabric. Making sure there is overhang of zipper on both sides, DO NOT CUT AWAY YET. Do the same on the other side attaching the zipper into place.

Flip the zipper tape over so the top of the teeth are at the top of your external piece and top stitch down do the same with the other side.

Place the pull back onto the zipper, here is another video that can help you with that. https://youtu.be/Ylmb-ZonYuc

Now you can cut off the zipper excess on both sides

make sure the zip is half way down and open the other in of the pouch. DO NOT PULL ZIPPER OFF COMPLETELY. Turn wrong sides out. sew both sides of the rectangle pieces into place and attach the bias strips hiding raw edges.

This part gets a bit bulky so go slow and stitch down the open boxed corners at the seam. I cut off part of the bulk before adding the binding to hide the seam. The binding is a little bit finicky but its worth it in the end.

Turn the pouch right sides out and you’re done!

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Using your cricut maker for sewing : Sewing a Coaster

3rd December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

Visit my Cricut home page https://design.cricut.com/landing/profile/61885f9fce8cbd26112567e4 and cut out all your parts.

The two squares are for cutting your fabric sections and the daisy will be cut using heat transfer vinyl. Its best to use a cricuit press the reason I say this is because a regular iron has holes and the cricut press doesn’t. Also the cricut press has a timer on it and can be set at a certain heat.

The materials you will need are two pieces of fabric at least 7″ x 7″ these will be cut down to a 6″ square. You will need a white, yellow and black HTV Vinyl. These are quite small so you should be able to get some of your little scraps used up with this project. You will need some quilters batting 6 x 6.

Load your machine up with fabric color of your choice for the main body for the coaster. Remember to change the setting to fabric.

Now load the vinyl, there will be white for the petals, black for the outline and yellow for the inside of the flower. Cut all pieces with the mirror set to on and the cut setting set to iron on vinyl.

Weed all your vinyl pieces.

Because this is a layered vinyl design you will want to cut the press time in half. I’ll be setting the easy press to 315 degrees F for 15 secs to one of the fabric sections. Starting with the white section first. Removing the plastic layer once it’s cooled down.

trim down the yellow section slightly and you will want to line up the yellow piece using the next black part. I placed the yellow section gently into the black section to line it up then removed it and pressed for 15 seconds. I used a Handkerchief as to not over heat the white section we just pressed.

The final piece can then be pressed on I did this for 25 seconds helping all the layers to become attached.

Now lets sewing this into a coaster.

Take the daisy piece, then the other piece that has no vinyl attached and lay them face down against each other, and place the quilting batting on top.

before we sew all the way around the daisy coaster, mark a 2 inch opening at the bottom for turning right side out.

Sew all the way around apart from that opening leave that open.

Once sewed down open right sides out using the opening.

then top stitch all the way around closing up that opening.

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Using your circut maker for sewing : Sewing a boxed out pencil case with Cricut maker

2nd December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

You will also need batting if you are making this from cotton or some sort of heavy to medium stabilizer. The stabilizer you can’t cut using your cricut but you will have to hand cut your batting if you are using that method.

for my tutorial I’m going to cut a medium weight canvas that i have dyed and screen printed. If you can’t afford to pink fabric mat you can use strong grip transfer tape as a little hack. Place the transfer tape sticky side up so you keep your mat nice and clean. You will need to insert your rotary cutter into your cricut machine and cut.

If Im cutting canvas I choose the canvas setting and select more. The cricuit cuts no problem but if you do want to send it through again just press the cricuit button without unloading the mat.

Cut the other sections of fabric, for the next part i’ll be using regular cotton so i’ll select the fabric Medium Fabrics (like cotton) button. Let the cricuit cut.

You should have :

2 external sections 11″ wide x 6″ tall

2 Internal sections 11″ wide x 6″ tall

4 tabs 1″ x 2

a zipper at least 10 ” long we will be using tabs at each end

The first thing we are going to do is sort out the zipper. Cut the length to 8″, pull the zipper back DO NOT CUT OFF THE PULL.

Lets sew on the the tabs, you will sandwich each tab right sides together with the zipper in the middle and clip in place with a wonder clip.

Sew into place with a quarter of an inch stitch. Once stitched you will fold back and top stitch in place. Do the same thing with both sides of the rounded bottom pouch.

Cut your tabs down 1/2″ on both sides. Make sure they are even on both sides.

Now lets make the boxed out bottom pencil case. One external section is face up, zipper with pull face down and one external piece face down. Grip or pin take over to your sewing machine and sew into place.

Fold everything back and top stitch. Do the same thing as before but now the zip is attached. Place external fabric with zip attached right side up, place the second external fabric right sides together. Grip or pin into place. flip everything over. You are now looking at the external fabric with the zipper pull facing away from you. Place you internal piece on top right sides facing. Grip into place and sew.

Now join together your external pieces and your internal pieces. IMPORTANT, PULL BACK THE ZIPPER!!

Mark a 2 1/2″ lines on the internal part of the boxed out bottom pencil case. The will be for pulling right sides out later.

Sew around the pouch apart from the squares and the two lines for the opening.

You’re now left with the boxed out corners. Join the seams together and sew, all four.

Pull the pouch through the opening. Check that everything is good and all the layers are sewn. Now you can sew the opening closed on the external section of the pouch.

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Using your cricut maker for sewing : Sewing curved bottom zipper pouch with Cricut maker

1st December 202326th January 2026 faodailcreationsewingblog

by Faodail Creation Sewing and Quilting – Sewing and Quilting Tutorials

Before we start please bear in mind that each cricut can be different, what works for my machine may not work for yours. Always run a test before making any projects

If Im cutting canvas I choose the canvas setting and select more. The cricuit cuts no problem but if you do want to send it through again just press the cricuit button without unloading the mat.

Cut the other sections of fabric, for the next part i’ll be using regular cotton so i’ll select the fabric Medium Fabrics (like cotton) button. Let the cricuit cut.

You should have :

2 external sections 8″ wide x 6″ tall

2 Internal sections 8″ wide x 6″ tall

4 tabs 1″ x 3

a zipper at least 6 ” long we will be using tabs at each end

The first thing we are going to do is sort out the zipper. Cut the length to 5 1/2″, pull the zipper back DO NOT CUT OFF THE PULL.

Lets sew on the the tabs, you will sandwich each tab right sides together with the zipper in the middle and clip in place with a wonder clip.

Sew into place with a quarter of an inch stitch. Once stitched you will fold back and top stitch in place. Do the same thing with both sides of the rounded bottom pouch.

Cut your tabs down so the measure 1 1/2″ on both sides. Make sure they are even on both sides.

Now lets make the rounded bottom pouch. One external section is face up, zipper with pull face down and one external piece face down. Grip or pin take over to your sewing machine and sew into place.

Open everything flat out.

Now join together your external pieces and your internal pieces. IMPORTANT, PULL BACK THE ZIPPER!!

Everything will lay flat, mark 2 1\2 ” mark at the bottom of the internal part of the pouch this will be left open so we can turn right sides out.

Go back to the sewing machine and sew all around the rounded bottom pouch apart from where we marked.

If you have excess fabric give it a trim without cutting through the threads. Pull the pouch through the opening. Check that everything is good and all the layers are sewn. Now you can sew the opening closed on the external section of the pouch.

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Using your cricut maker for sewing | Sewing a coin pouch

Using your Cricut maker for sewing – Sew a Boxy pouch

Using your Cricut maker for sewing – Sew a clam shapped zipper pouch

Using your cricut maker for sewing – Sewing a Circle Pouch

Using your cricut maker for sewing : Sewing a Boxy small but wide pencil case

Using your cricut maker for sewing : Sewing a Coaster

Using your circut maker for sewing : Sewing a boxed out pencil case with Cricut maker

Using your cricut maker for sewing : Sewing curved bottom zipper pouch with Cricut maker