Woolie Pentagons Sewing Box - One Dodecahedron Tutorial

Want to make a woolie pentagon box for your sewing notions?

This is a Dodecahedron.

(don't say that with a mouthful of popcorn!)

  12 pentagons, 30 edges, and 20 vertices (points)!

You will need:

Lightweight cardboard,

 cut 12 cardboard pentagon shapes. 

Cotton quilt batt scraps cut to the same size as cardboard,

 please cut 13 pentagons, the extra will be for the inside of the lid.

Lightweight mismatched felted wools for the faces,

cut 12 pentagons, 1/4 to 1/2 inch larger than the cardboard. 

Lightweight wool or flannel of one colour to use as lining,

cut 12 pentagons, 1/4 to 1/2 inch larger than the cardboard.

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This is my favourite quick method for fusing the layers,

 Cut pieces of fusible hem tape to the length of a side. 

Now trim that piece in half lengthwise.

 Layer the batting between the cardboard and wool fabric.

 Carefully place trimmed fusing tape on cardboard, fold over the wool fabric and iron. Repeat on all 5 sides.

 Trim the corners

Press again

Now press a hem on the lining pieces.

Use the cardboard as a template, work around all sides

 

Here are 12 covered and batted pieces with 12 liners ready to stitch.

 To reduce bulk, trim away the corners on the lining.

Be careful not to trim past the ironed hem. 

 Leave just a smidge for stitching.

 Pin lining to the cardboard side of the wool and batt pieces.

 Use a neutral coloured thread and 

make small whip stitches to join the sides.

I used Coates and Clark polyester, brown #8360. 

***Stop here and decide which shape will be the lid, use the extra, or 13th piece of batting for the lining side of the cardboard***

Lay out the finished pieces 

I chose the red piece to be my lid.

It has batting on both sides of the cardboard.

 Join each side with small whip stitches.

Stitch on the right side of the pentagons.

 Six pieces joined, place right sides down.

 Now bring up the sides and stitch one side at a time.

 

(Stop now if you want a bowl!)

 Add a row around the bowl

 

Keep going all the way around the bowl, using 5 more shapes.

  The last shape is your lid.

This is the piece that has batting on both sides.

The perfect spot to hold needles and pins!

 Not finished yet. 

Time to personalize and pretty it up a bit.

Work a feather stitch,

 which is an adaption of a blanket stitch,

 along all the edges.  

Embroider with one colour, or a combination of thread colours.

 

Add a fob to hold the lid down.

I used a bobbin, a woolie strawberry, and a button!

You could use one, or all, or any weighty dangle thing of your choice.

What will you keep in your
Dodecahedron?

I will be making wool pieced kits for this project, no thread.

I'm playing with the shapes to get just the right sized opening.

Let me know if you are interested.

 Happy New Year!

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From time to time I will have templates and kits available.