Crayon Roll tutorial

Hello my poor neglected blog!  I've returned.  With a tutorial, even.  For crayon rolls.

I love office/school supplies.  Back-to-School shopping is one of my absolute favorite kinds of shopping.  Notebooks, binders, pens, pencils, crayons, markers, colored pencils.  *Swoon*

With it being Back-to-School season, I decided I would stock up on art supplies so I have them on hand for throughout the year for my girl, and also so I could make up a bunch of roll-ups to have on hand for gifts and craft fairs. They were on sale for 25 cents last week so I bought a bunch. 28 to be exact.  To start with.  I also plan on stocking up on markers and colored pencils.  I wasn't kidding when I said I loved school supplies.

Anyways, with all those crayons, I've spent the last couple days sewing up crayon rolls and was asked for a tutorial, so here it is!

Crayon Roll Tutorial

This tutorial is for a 24 count pack of crayons, but could easily be adjusted to suit the number of crayons.

Materials

• Fabric- two different fabrics that will be visible, and one that will be hidden to add stability to the roll.  I used flannel.  You could also use fleece, an extra layer of regular cotton, interfacing, or you could not use anything at all. 
• Elastic 
• You'll also need a ruler and scissors or a rotary cutter.

Isn't that crayon fabric adorable?! I'm in love with it.

 Construction

• You'll need to cut 3 rectangles out of the main fabric. (The crayon fabric in my case.) One measuring 9x13 inches, and two measuring 6x13 by inches.

• Then cut a 9x13 rectangle out of the secondary fabric (pink in my case), and also of the lining if you are using one. 

• Fold the 6x13 rectangles in half "hot dog" style and iron. 

What you should have so far

• Lay your secondary fabric on top of your lining fabric.

• And then take your two skinny rectangles and lay one at the top of the fabric, and one at the other, with the open seams at the edges.

•  Take your ruler and draw a line 1.5 inches in from the edge on both of the pockets.

 

•  Now measure 1 inch from that line and draw another line.  Do the same thing all the way across until you are 1.5 inches from the other edge.

 

• Now for the sewing.  You are going to sew down each of those lines to form the slots for the crayons. To save time on this, I start at one raw edge and sew to the end of that pocket and back-stitch to secure.

 

• Then lift it up and move the fabric to the folded edge on the other pocket, then sew from there to the raw edge.  Cut the thread, and repeat all the way across the fabric.

•  Trim the threads (don't forget the ones on the back!) and you should be left with this.

•  Then take your elastic (mine measured about 7 inches I think) and fold it in half so you have a loop like this

• and pin it to the fabric like this

•   Now take your 9x13 piece of the pain fabric and pin it face down on top of the piece with the pockets.

•  Then stitch around the edges, leaving an opening to turn it though.  Clip the corners (being careful not to cut the stitching) and turn right side out.

•  Iron and sew around the edge again, making sure to close up the opening you turned through.  

•  Fill with crayons

•  Fold over

• Roll up and secure with elastic!

Please only use this tutorial for personal use (for you, for gifts, etc.), and link back to my blog/give me credit if you post about or share this.  Thank you!