Happy Spring (Northern Hemisphere) and Happy Autumn (Southern Hemisphere), these are 2 most temperature friendly seasons throughout the year. DiDi the baby Deer Coin Purse is here to greet you all to be happy always, in whichever season, be it hunting of Easter eggs, or watching leaves falling, or sunbathing under the hot sun, or clearing snow in front of your porch. Keep calm, relax and Keep Sewing!!!
DiDi Deer Coin Purse Sewing Pattern
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DiDi Deer Coin Purse pattern is about a palm-sized coin purse with zipper closure (4″ x 3.25″), suitable for keeping loose coins and some cash notes. It has an open pocket at the back of the coin purse. However, if you prefer a larger size purse, you can always enlarge the template during printing and adjust the materials accordingly.
Besides sewing DiDi as a coin purse, you may tweak the sewing instruction a little and sew it into a Key Pouch to keep your keys cozily in it, so that the keys don’t scratch the lining of your purse or tangle up with loose corded items in your purse. Make a pair of them as twin Didi Deer Coin Purse and Key Pouch, great as a handmade gift for friends and family. Get Key Pouch tutorial at “Ba NaNa Monkey Key Pouch“, “Beagle Dog Key Pouch“, “Husky Puppy Key Pouch“.
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Deer Coin Purse Sewing Pattern
DiDi Deer Coin Purse is a palm-sized coin purse with zipper closure (4 x 3.25 inches), suitable for keeping loose coins and some cash notes. It has an open pocket at the back of the coin purse. However, if you prefer a larger size purse, you can always enlarge the template during printing and adjust the materials accordingly.
Besides sewing DiDi as a coin purse, you may tweak the sewing instruction a little and sew it into a Key Pouch to keep your keys cozily in it so that the keys won’t scratch the lining of your purse or tangle up with loose corded items in your purse. Make a pair of them as twin Didi Deer Coin Purse and Key Pouch, great as a handmade gift for friends and family. Get more Key Pouch tutorials at Ba NaNa Monkey Key Pouch, Beagle Dog Key Pouch, and Husky Puppy Key Pouch.
Enjoy sewing them!
Download and print separately: SEWING PATTERN.
Materials
- Fabric, Body – Brown, approx 13.5″ x 10″
- Fabric, Ears – Yellow approx 4″ x 4″
- Fabric, Muzzle – Beige, approx 2.5″ x 3″
- Felt, Face – White, approx 3″ x 2″
- Felt, Mount – Red, approx 0.5″ x 0.5″
- Batting or Felt – approx 11″ x 9.5″
- Button eye 9 mm, black, 2; or equivalent button (as the eyes)
- Bead 5mm, black, 1; or equivalent button (as the nose)
- Zipper, Metal, 4″ - if you need to shorten the metal zipper from a longer zipper, refer to this tutorial
Tools
- Sewing machine, with normal
- Sewing needle, pins, matching threads
- Scissors
- Water Erasable fabric marker, for light color fabric
- Tweezers, blunt point tips, for turning small part inside out
- Fabric glue, or Quick-dry adhesive (UHU)
- Printer, 8.5″ x 11″ cardstock paper for the template and papers
Instructions
- Gather all supplies listed above and download the DiDi Deer Coin Purse Template. Print the templates on cardstock paper and cut them out accordingly.
- Cut out the fabric and batting pieces according to the quantity stated on each of the templates. The fabrics and battings have to be at least 1/2″ bigger (1/4″ on each side) than the template in width and length respectively.
For making an open pocket at the back of the coin purse, provision of 3/4″ seam allowance at the top of the back pocket is needed. This is for double folding of the raw edge at the top of the open pocket.
Trace the outline of the template on the wrong side of the fabric accordingly.
- Sew an open pocket at the back of the deer coin purse:
Double-fold the top edge of the open pocket and double topstitch with 1/4″ apart.
Place the pocket template on the back-piece of the purse. Match the pocket into the traced outline of the back piece. Mark the pocket's position.
Place the fabric pocket piece onto the back piece. Align the top edge to the marking line that you have just made.
Make a few stitches on the seam allowance to secure the pocket in place.
- Sew coin purse back piece:
Place batting on the table, followed by a piece of purse body fabric with the right side facing up. Then place the pocket purse piece on it with the right side facing down. Pin all 3 pieces together (batting and 2 purse fabric pieces).
Sew around and leave an opening at the side of the purse but avoid the pocket area.
Trim fabric seam allowance to 1/4″.
Trim the seam allowance of the batting to 1/8″ or as near to the sewing line.
Set aside.
- Sew coin purse front, ears, and muzzle pieces:
Sew each of them a similar way as the back piece, i.e with 1 batting and 2 fabric pieces.
For the muzzle, instead of leaving an opening on the seam, make a one-inch slit on a layer of fabric of the muzzle for turning inside out.
Trim fabric seam allowance to 1/4″.
Trim the seam allowance of the batting to 1/8″ or as near to the sewing line.
Cut out the eye-piece, the antlers, and the nose from felt.
Make a one-inch slit on a layer of fabric of the muzzle for turning inside out.
- Turn pieces inside out and hand stitch to close the opening with a slip stitch or ladder stitch.
Press with a warm iron to smooth out the pieces if needed.
- Sew DiDi Deer face on the front piece:
Mark the position of the antler, face, and ears patterns on the purse that doesn’t have a pocket on it. You may mark by eyeballing position, trace the shape with an erasable fabric marker.
Sew them around with matching color thread.
Mark the position of the muzzle, eyes, nose, and mouth on the purse. Sew around the muzzle with a slip stitch. Sew the button eyes and nose then glue the mouth.
- Sew to join front and back pieces:
Place both front and back purse pieces together with inside together. Sew them together with a slip stitch, from zipper marking to another zipper marking. This will leave the top edge with a 4 inch opening for the zipper installation.
- Sew Zipper:
Unzip the zipper. Position and align one of the zipper tape's center to the center of the purse opening.
Pin the zipper tape to the purse along the edge, with the zipper teeth about 1/8″ away from the purse edge. The top and bottom stops of the zipper should meet at the zipper markings on the purse respectively.
Hand-sew with slip stitch to attach the zipper to the purse starting from one end to the other.
Repeat the same to the other side of the zipper tape. Make sure the center of the purse is aligned after zipping up.
Neaten the zipper tape by rolling the edge into the zipper and slip stitch it.
This is how the zipper tape looks after completed.
The deer coin purse with the unzip zipper.
Spray some water to erase all the markings if you using a water-soluble fabric marker. Leave it to dry and the DiDi Deer Coin Purse is done.
DiDi wishes to say Hello to the world and thanks for sewing it!
Notes
Seam Allowance: 1/4″ on fabrics only, 3/4″ for the top edge of an open pocket, 1/8″ for batting. Sew before trimming to the desired seam allowance.
I used Japanese Yarn Dyed fabric to sew this Deer coin purse.
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Nancy
Tuesday 22nd of October 2019
I like to see how you saw the husky key pouch together. (Front and back side)
Craft Passion
Tuesday 22nd of October 2019
Here is the link to the pattern and tutorial of Husky pouch.
Ruth
Thursday 29th of March 2018
This looks like it could be made into a giraffe (although definitely cute as it is!). What changes do I make to do it?
Craft Passion
Wednesday 4th of April 2018
Yes, you can easily adapt this pattern to make a giraffe. My suggestion is to change the color of the fabric to brown yellowish tone, redraw the antlers to giraffe antlers.
Vera Lúcia Monte Santo de Pinho
Saturday 24th of March 2018
Olá, gostei muito de site. Porém não falo inglês, portanto não compreendo o que está escrito, mesmo assim obrigada pelos lidos porta-moedas, beijos.
Translation (Google): Hello, I really liked the site. But I do not speak English, so I do not understand what is written, still thank you for the purse-read, kisses.