Travel Shaving Kit Free pattern

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This travel shaving kit free pattern is perfect handmade gift for that special fella in your life! With handy compartments and a sleek design you can easily personalize it with fabric that reflects his personality.

YOU WILL NEED:

  • 1/2 yard light to midweight cotton fabric for the outside and lining
  • 1/3 yard medium weight fusible interfacing
  • 1 yard quilting cotton or other lightweight cotton fabric for the inside pocket and the bias binding if you are making your own
  • 2 – 12″ zippers
  • clear vinyl
  • 2 1/2 yards wide double fold binding (1/2″ folded) – prepackaged or you can make your own
  • Sewing Essentials (pins, scissors, etc.)
  • Sewing Machine
This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Travel Shaving Kit STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL:

Step 1 – Cut and Prepare Your Fabric Pieces

Cutting the fabric pieces. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Cut out your pieces (all measurements are length x width).

solid fabric: 2 – 15″ x 11″

contrast fabric: 2 – 12″ x 11″

vinyl: 1 – 6″ x 11″

interfacing: 1 – 15″ x 11″

fuse interfacing to the wrong side of the outer fabric.

Step 2 – Attach Bias Tape and Vinyl to Zipper

Sewing bias tape. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Sew bias tape to the right side of the zipper tape.

Sewing the vinyl.

Sew the long edge of the vinyl to the left side, right side of the zipper facing the vinyl. Topstitch. This will make the vinyl pocket for the travel shaving kit.

Step 3 – Secure the Vinyl Pocket to the Lining

Pinning and sewing the outer edge. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Pin the vinyl with the attached zipper to the lining with the raw edges matching. Sew along the outer edge of the bias tape to secure and baste the other 3 sides in place.

Step 4 – Fold and Finish the Pocket Pieces

Folding and finishing the pocket pieces.

Fold the two pocket piece in half, wrong sides together, widthwise. Finish the vertical edge opposite the fold.

Step 5 – Sew Pockets to the Zipper

Sewing the pockets. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Place the zipper along the edge you just finished, right sides facing. Stitch zipper in place using a zipper foot and topstitch. Repeat with the second pocket piece.

Step 6 – Mark Placement for the Zipper Pocket

Marking a line for the zipper pocket.

With chalk or a disappearing marker, draw a line 6″ away from the raw edge opposite the vinyl pocket. Next step is to attach the zipper pocket to the travel shaving kit.

Step 7 – Attach the TRAVEL KIT’S Zipper Pocket

Placing the edge of the zipper pocket. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Place the edge of the zipper pocket along this line and stitch. The pocket will extend beyond the lining.

Step 8 – Create Pleats for a Roomy Pocket

Creating pleats on each side.

Fold 2-3 pleats on each side of the zipper so that the other fold edge matches up with the lining. Baste them in place.

Step 9 – Round Off the Corners OF THE shaving kit

Tracing a small round object. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Trace around a small round object to round off the 4 corners and trim.

Step 10 – Layer and Trim the Outer Fabric

Placing and trimming the corners.

Place the lining piece on top of the outer, wrong sides together. Use the lining as a template to trim the corners of the outer.

Step 11 – Add the Ties

Adding the ties. This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.

Cut a 12″ piece of bias binding and sew the edge together to form a tie. Cut into 2 equal pieces, and baste to the middle of the short edges of the outer fabric.

Step 12 – Bind the Edges to Finish THE travel shaving kit

Binding the edges to finish.

Finish the outer edge with bias binding.

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This travel shaving kit is handmade, sleek, and super practical—with compartments that actually make sense. With our step-by-step tutorial, you can stitch one up and customize the fabric to fit his style. It’s the perfect blend of rugged and personal. He’ll use it more than once.
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Gracious Threads began as a place for Jess to share all the sewing she did for her friends and family. It soon grew, as other sewists shared her love for simple, practical clothing for kids. Jess lives with her husband and 3 children on their Canadian dairy farm.