Free Sewing Craft Patterns

Sewing Craft Patterns

There are hundreds of sewing crafts that cover a wide variety of useful household and personal items. A sampling of the sewing projects you can make ranges from stuffed animals and mittens to bags, picture frames and tissue box covers. Sewing crafts are fun to make and they also make wonderful gifts.

Free Patterns for Sewing Crafts

Many online sites offer excellent free patterns for sewing crafts that are appropriate for beginners as well as those with more experienced skills.

An excellent source of free patterns that cover a wide variety of craft sewing projects is Craftbits. This website offers dozens of patterns with easy to follow directions that include illustrations and pictures, printable patterns and a project rating system. Several of their current top ten projects include:

• Sock Monkey
• Denim Jeans Organizer
• Dammit Doll
• Tarp Shopping Bag

All Free Crafts is another excellent website that offers a vast assortment of free sewing patterns for crafters of all levels. Each craft project on All Free Crafts includes easy to follow instructions and a printable pattern. There are wonderful uses for recycled denim, including denim wine bags, pillows and pencil cases. Fabric towel toppers, placemats and shopping bags are several other home craft projects found at this interesting craft website. There are also great craft ideas that you can sew for yourself or as gifts for friends and family including:

• A fabric tube necklace or headband
• A sleeveless vest made from a sweatshirt
• Teddy Wolf, a lovable cuddly stuffed animal

Craft Freebies is packed with sewing craft ideas. A few of the crafts offered on this site include:

• An adorable beanbag kitten that can be either a toy or a doorstop.
• A diaper/tote bag that is easy to make.
• A beautiful applique rose for the more experienced sewing crafter.

Websites that Specialize in a Specific Type of Sewing Craft Pattern

In addition to websites that offer varied types of craft projects, there are those that specialize in a particular type of sewing craft project. For example:

• If you are looking for a craft pattern to sew a handbag or purse Henrietta’s Handbags & Purse Patterns offers hundreds of free patterns along with excellent instructions. Henrietta’s Handbags also offers designer purse patterns for sale.
• Crafters that love to make dolls will find plenty of free sewing patterns at BellaOnline. The site features patterns for cloth and fabric dolls, plus links to many more doll making and doll related websites.
• Everyone loves teddy bears and South African Bears offers beautiful patterns with complete instructions. The patterns were donated by several of the best bear artists of South Africa.

More Free Sewing Craft Patterns

Many more online sites offer free patterns for sewing crafts. Several of these sites include:

• Free Patterns has a wide variety of sewing craft patterns.
• Great craft ideas can be found at Make It Easy.
• Knowledge Hound offers patterns for dolls and stuffed animals.
• Fabric and sewing crafts are listed by season at Craft Ideas.