Adding a touch of charm to your favorite handbag, or your kids backpack is made even better when it’s made-by-you! Pairing a fun animal design with EverSewn cork fabric will give you the durability and look of leather, but in an animal/environmentally friendly fabric with lots color choices!
Whether you’re sewing with a machine for the first time, or one thousandth time, or even hand stitching side-by-side with your little one. It’s about the experience of creating something with your own two hands that matters most.
Download our FREE cork keychain charm pattern to make your charms pictured here.
Bunny Key Charm
Fabric:
-Main Fabric- 9” x 9” piece Natural Cork Fabric
-Backing Fabric- 9” x 9” piece Felt Fabric
-Yarn
Supplies:
-Hardware - Swivel Hook 2 1/4"
-50wt Thread
-Button
-Craft Glue E6000
Cutting Fabrics
- · Lay out pattern to trace and cut out bunny from both main and back fabric.
- · Cut a fabric tab 1”x ¼” use to connect the hardware.
Assemble
- · Place the front and back fabric, wrong sides together, secure with adhesive spray.
- · Slip tab into hardware top. Loop tab and insert in between main and back fabric. (I used a clip to secure tab in place.)
Sew
- · Slowly Top-stitch around catching the tab in the seam.
Tail
- · Make a Pom Pom.
- · Punch a hole and feed the Pom Pom center string to the back.
- · Use a button to tie and secure on back of bunny.
Pineapple Key Charm
Fabric:
-Main Fabric- 9” x 9” piece Natural Cork Fabric, small piece of Red Cork Fabric, and Green Cork Fabric
-Backing Fabric- 9” x 9” piece Felt Fabric
Supplies:
-Hardware - Swivel Hook 2 1/4"
-50wt Thread
Cutting Fabrics
- · Lay out pattern to trace and cut out pineapple pieces from both Red and Green and felt fabric.
- · Cut a fabric tab 1”x ¼” use to connect the hardware.
Assemble and Sew
- · Place and stitch the front triangles on pineapple.
- · Slip tab into hardware top. Loop tab and attach to the back side of pineapple using a clip. Stitching around the border of the pineapple to secure the hardware.
- · Stitch around the border of each crown piece. Secure crown pieces together with adhesive spray.
- · Place the crown on top of the pineapple and slowly top-stitch to secure together. Adhere the backing fabric with adhesive spray.
Done!
Fox Key Charm
Fabric:
-Main Fabric- small pieces of Milky Cork Fabric, and Red Cork Fabric,
-Backing Fabric- a piece Felt Fabric
- Appliqué for nose and eyes Chalk Fabric
Supplies:
-Hardware - Swivel Hook 2 1/4"
-50wt Thread
Cutting Fabrics
- · Lay out pattern to trace and cut out fox pieces from Milky Cork, Red Cork, and felt fabric.
- · Cut a fabric tab 1”x ¼” use to connect the hardware.
Assemble and Sew
- · Slip tab into hardware top. Loop tab and attach to the back side of fox head using a clip. Stitch around the edge of the fox head securing the hardware in stitch seam.
- · Top stitch around the edge of cheek pieces.
- · Place the ears, cheeks, eyes and nose pieces on fox head and secure with glue. Adhere the backing fabric with adhesive spray and glue.
- · Make and attach tassels with glue.
Done!
