Valentine’s Day Colorblocked Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial

Get ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day and sew our Valentine’s Day Wine Tote! In just a couple hours of sewing, you’ll have a festive wine tote to add to your Valentine’s Day table decor. Deanna, from Team NZP, selected two coordinating Valentine’s Day fabrics, along with our McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern – Shop NEW! Valentine’s Day Fabrics and more at ShopNZP.com!

In our sewing tutorial below, learn how Deanna made one Valentine’s Day Wine Tote look like two completely different wine totes! Can you guess how? If you look closely at the Wine Tote side seams, in the photos above, you may figure out our sewing secret!

Valentine’s Day Wine Tote Supplies

• McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman
• Two Coordinating Valentine’s Day Fabric fat quarters work great for this project!
• 1 yd. Pellon Fusible ShirTailor Interfacing
  
• Eze View Press Cloth & Fine Mist Spray Bottle
• Clover’s Heart Shaped Pins or Clover’s Wonder Pins
• Pattern Making Paper
• Pattern Shape Weights – Set of  8
• Sewer’s Fix It Tape
• Team Nancy Zieman’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin by Clover
• Clover’s Stilletto/Awl
• Marking Pen
• Tailor’s Clapper
• June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
• Open Toe Presser Foot
• The Big Jig
• Schmetz Universal Sewing Machine Needle, Sz. 80
• 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Pinking Blade, Mat & Ruler
• Standard Sewing Thread
• Iron

Valentine’s Day Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial!

Finished Size Approximately 4″ x 6″ x 14″

All seam allowance are 5/8″, unless otherwise stated.

Our Valentine’s Day Wine Tote may be sewn in as little as two or three hours – and is made from just two Valentine’s Day Fat Quarters, or 1/2 yd. each of two different fabrics.

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Prepare Fabrics

 

Prepare all fabrics by pressing and starching with June Tailor’s Starch Savvy. Press and starch, press and starch.

Cut Fabrics & Interfacing

• Cut two 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Fabric A–Valentine’s Day Fabric.
• Cut two 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Fabric B–Valentine’s Day Fabric.
• Cut four 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangles from Pellon Fusible ShirTailor Interfacing.

• Fuse ShirTailor Interfacing rectangles to wrong side of fabric rectangles, using Eze View Press Cloth & Fine Mist Spray Bottle – filled with water.
  

• Cut out the Wine Tote Pattern Piece from the McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman.
• Cut one 10″ wide x 17″ tall rectangle from Pattern Making Paper.

• Fold Pattern Making Paper rectangle in half – meeting 17″ long edges.

• Position Wine Tote Pattern Piece along fold of Pattern Making Paper – using Pins or Shape Weights to hold pattern in place.

• Cut away Pattern Making Paper, along curved edge.

• Unfold pattern, and tape Wine Tote Pattern Piece to Pattern Making Paper – using Sewer’s Fix It Tape.

• Position wine tote pattern onto fabric rectangles, using Pins or Shape Weights to hold pattern in place.

• Cut two wine tote shapes from Fabric A.
• Cut two wine tote shapes from Fabric B.

Sewing Secret Revealed! To make one Wine Tote appear to be two completely different totes, sew two outer pieces together using two different fabrics!  (And, sew two inner pieces together using two different fabrics). We also call this our Color Blocked Wine Tote!

• Pin or Wonder Clip inner fabrics, right sides together, at top narrow edge (one each of two different fabrics).
• Pin or Wonder Clip outer fabrics, right sides together, at top narrow edge (one each of two different fabrics).

Or, to make a traditional Wine Tote, with coordinating outer fabric (and coordinating inner fabric), place like fabrics right sides together – just like with did in our Halloween Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial. 

• Attach an Open Toe Presser Foot to sewing machine, and insert a new Schmetz Universal Sewing Machine Needle, Sz. 80.
• Stitch seams, along top narrow edges.

• Press seams open, using a Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seams.

• Place wine tote sections right sides together, aligning opposing fabrics.
• Pin or Wonder Clip along curved edges.

• Stitch wine tote sections along curved edges, only!

• Using 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Pinking Blade, and Cutting Mat, trim seam allowances to approximately 1/4″ – along curved edges only.

Extend the life of the cutting mat, and cut on the “reverse side” of the mat – when rotary cutting with a pinking blade! 

• Press seams open over a Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seams.

• Attache Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin to lower corner of outer wine tote section, and turn right sides out.

• Press.

• Pin or Wonder Clip front and back sections together at sides.

• Press seams open, using a Tailor’s Clapper – to flatten seams.

• Turn right sides out. Press.
• Meet lower edges. Pin or Wonder Clip all four lower edge layers together.

• Using sewing machine, or serger, stitch all layers together – along lower edge.

Create Lower Gussets

• Fold lower corners meeting right sides together and matching lower seam to side seams.
• Mark a straight line at 1-1/2″ inside corner, as shown.

• Stitch along marked lines – using a Stilletto/Awl to assist feeding seams under presser foot.

Using an Open Toe Presser Foot makes it easy to stitch directly on the marked line!

 

• Optional: Create curved lower gusset seams by tracing a salad plate, marking curves at previously stitched lines, as shown.

• Stitch along curves lines.

 Use The Big Jig behind and under presser foot, to keep presser foot level when sewing multiple layers!

 

• Trim lower seam allowances to 3/8″

• Serge or zigzag lower seam allowances.

• Turn right side out.
• Convert sewing machine to free arm sewing, and topstitch around curved handle seams.

• Our Color Blocked Valentine’s Day Wine Tote is complete!

 Our Valentine’s Day Wine Tote holds one or two standard wine bottles, and also makes a great gift bag – with a built-in handle!

Valentine’s Day Wine Tote Supplies

• McCall’s M6338 Picnic Party Pattern by Nancy Zieman
• Two Coordinating Valentine’s Day Fabric fat quarters work great for this project!
• 1 yd. Pellon Fusible ShirTailor Interfacing
  
• Eze View Press Cloth & Fine Mist Spray Bottle
• Clover’s Heart Shaped Pins or Clover’s Wonder Pins
• Pattern Making Paper
• Pattern Shape Weights – Set of  8
• Sewer’s Fix It Tape
• Team Nancy Zieman’s Clip ‘n Glide Bodkin by Clover
• Clover’s Stilletto/Awl
• Marking Pen
• Tailor’s Clapper
• June Tailor’s Starch Savvy
• Open Toe Presser Foot
• The Big Jig
• Schmetz Universal Sewing Machine Needle, Sz. 80
• 45 mm Rotary Cutter, Pinking Blade, Mat & Ruler
• Standard Sewing Thread
• Iron