A two-sided tissue holder pouch is perfect for cold and flu season. One side can hold a pack of tissues, the other side can hold a mini bottle of sanitizer and a lip gloss! This post was sponsored by GOJO Industries, the makers of Purel and contains affiliate links.
How to sew a two-sided tissue holder for your purse or backpack.
Supplies:
- Fabric Scraps
- Thread
- Measuring Tape
- Tissue Pouch (2×4.5″) (affiliate)
- PURELL® Advanced Hand Sanitizer
- Lip gloss, optional
Directions to make a fabric tissue holder.
1. Cut your fabrics. You will need 1 main fabric for the body and 1 contrasting fabric for the pocket.
Body: (cut 2) 5 3/4″ x 7 1/2″
Pocket: (cut 1) 4″ x 7 1/2″
Seam allowance 1/4″
5. Pin sides and stitch both sides closed, leaving the top and bottom open.
7. Press seams flat.
9. Fold the top down 1 3/4″.
12. Stitch sides closed and trim close to seam.
13. Turn right side out.
You’re going to love this double-sided tissue holder so much you’ll want to make a few more to keep on hand for gifts!
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Seriously love the double sided tissue pouch! I need to make mine like these. Pinning for later.
Thank you, Theresa! They are so fun to make!
Really cute ideas!! I love that the tissue holder has a pocket!
Thanks so much Candice!
This is such a cool idea! I love that it’s a multi-purpose pouch 🙂
Blessings,
Edye // Gracefulcoffee
Thank you, Edye! They are fun to make!
What an adorable and entirely useful sewing project. Can’t wait to give it a try. Congrats, you’re featured this week at the #ThisIsHowWeRoll Link Party.
Wow, thank you so much!
PERFECT for us germ-a-phobes!!! Pretty, fast, and useful–can’t beat that!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Cute idea! I’ve made a fabric tissue case before but not with a pocket! I look forward to trying this one! Blessings, Janet
very cute love how they are created makes it easy to carry items without a large bag.
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Love how you’ve got these doublesided! So convenient to keep a few things together. 🙂
This is very awesome. I love the colors, too. Pinned to Pinterest. Best wishes for a wonderful summer, Linda @Crafts a la mode
I love your shares! Found you on Creative link 🙂 Great and compact for easy access and carry along.
Awww, this is adorable–thanks so much for sharing 🙂 I love a cute and creative idea that doesn’t look TOO terribly challenging (as I am not the biggest DIY’r!). Following over from SITS Sharefest and hope you’re enjoying the weekend 🙂
I love what you have done to make this simple project multi-functional. I think that tissue packs are one of the gateway projects in learning to sew. I have found you on Inspire Me Monday/Create with Joy. See my post on How to Run Your Own Summer Sewing Camp: http://www.thelostapron.com/2016/07/sewing-camp.html
Really cute!Thanks for linking up to Merry Monday! Pinned! Have a great week!
Kim
You’re so talented and you always make everything look so easy! 🙂
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Such a great Christmas gift for all of the girls in the club.
Super cute! Great gift idea for anyone on your list. Visiting from Happiness Is Homemade party.
Adorable! Great way to use up scraps! I’ll be making one!
Love this idea! Thanks for the tutorial!
Cute and convenient idea! Pinning! 🙂 Lisa
Just made two for my dogwalking friends – with a loop of twill tape at the top to clip to the leash. Very cute! There’s space for tucking in a doggie doo bag next to the hand sanitizer.
What a great idea! Love that. I may have to make another to take with us for our doggie too!
What size sanitizer, mine atrent coming out right. Having a get together with 13 friends and ive made 4 and made them a tad bigger butthe back is split open, doesnt look good.
Hi Debbie! The ones I used are only about 2 1/2″ tall. They aren’t the ones that hang from a purse or fit into the silicone carriers that you can find. It was even smaller and I found them at Walmart in the travel section a couple of years ago. Do the ones you have fit without a lip gloss in the pouch too or not at all?
Hi, in step 6 you say to turn right side out before pressing seams. However, at the end you are told to turn right side out! So do you turn it wrong side out before completing the final steps after pressing the seams? I love the pouch, have started to make it but its so unclear at the end. As a beginner I find it very frustrating when tutorials are not clear enough. Please help!
Hi Emma!
In step 5 you will see that the tissue pouch is inside-out. In step 6 you turn it right side out. Then iron the side seams.
Now it’s time to fold it to create the pouch which will essentially make it inside-out again after you make those folds.
In the last photo after it has been folded and the side seams have been stitched you will see that it needs to be turned right side out again.
Hope that helps!
Thank you for your reply! I went ahead anyway & turned it inside out. It went in the bin. I’ll give it another go, now its clearer ?
I absolutely love this. This is my first thing to hand sew and it wad so easy. I will definately be using thos at school ✔✅☑
Yay! I’m so glad!
Thank you for posting this project! I made 4 of them this morning and featured it on my homeschooling blog! I linked to your page, of course! Thank you for sharing!
I made one and it turned out really great!
I’m so glad! They are very useful little things!
So cute I love it! This would be so handy for the kids for their backpacks. Thank you for sharing on Merry Monday! Hope to see ya next week!
Kim
I find the directions very confusing. Hard to tell from the pictures which sides are finished.I am on my second try and still not right. Apparently Ive sewed the wrong sides. I know thus should be very simple but the directions need to be more specific. I.e. .long side or shirt side.
I’m sorry that you find them confusing. I’ve gone over them and am not sure how to simplify them more, but if you watch the photos you will see the placement of pocket when you are folding the top and bottom of the pouch. Keep an eye on the pocket piece to make sure your pouch looks like mine before sewing the sides. Hopefully, that helps!
Finally figured it out. The next one should be a piece if cake. Thank you for the pattern.
Oh, good!! I’m so glad.
Great tutorial but I think the pocket measurements are off. My pocket ended up an inch down from the top – Not like the photo. I checked both the video and page measurements before starting. I think I”ll try again with a 3 x 7 1/2 pocket.
Thank you for a great idea! Making a bunch for friends and relatives.
I made 30 of them and they came together very nicely. Great project! Thank you so much!