I buy the small sized tissue in bundles from the dollar store

Using your tutorial, several ladies are making these for the BIG E Fair in Springfield, MA in September. They are fun to make. Thanks for your tutorial.

Here in our area, the only brand we can get is Kleenex and the cheap stores have about the same prices as other stores.

Made one today and added a touch of trim....also made a matching fabric bowl that I got from a link here on the board!!! They are a gift for my new administrative assistant.

Your froggy fabric is sooooooooooooo cute.

Thanks Grannieannie

I made one of these for my bride. :) thank you for the tutorial.
NorthDakotaDad.

One??????????? Just one??????????? Lordy, how did you manage to stop at one? I couldn't even stop at 100!

Ready for the school fete
 

Have made 24 all together. Thanks for the instructions. Made some the original way, some with the wider band, and some I tried with the french seams idea. Just some of them pictured, all ready for my GD's school fete.

A few more
 

I also boxed the corners on them, thanks for the suggestion.
Sorry I can't remember who submitted these great ideas.

I must have missed the 'boxing the corners' idea. Thanks for mentioning it. Just one of those "why didn't I think of that' things! :-)

This is really cute. Thanks

My sister-in-law and I teach several days of mini-quilt classes at a major juried fair here in WV in the summer....this is one of the classes I taught this past summer. I had rank beginners, children....and we even hand-sewed them and they turned out beautifully. I purchased bulk packets of tissues so they could use their tissue holder right away. At home I sew them on the machine and turn out ten at a time. I layer at least 4 fat quarters and make the 2 cuts so I have a good mix of fabrics. This tute was bookmarked early on...I knew it was a winner!

Wow! It is the easiest tissue holder I have ever seen. Thanks!

Somewhere is a pattern for a tissue cover that uses 5 pieces of fabric. I though that sounded too hard when I first heard it. But it's almost as easy as this one and a fun change of pace after making over 300 of these.

NOW, I'm using the same method to make mug rugs. I'm going to see what comes up if I google 5 piece tissue holder.

http://www.barbstamps.com/my_weblog/fabric/

This site has one of the 5 piece tissue covers. Patterns too. They are a lot faster than they sound like they'd be.

These are soooo easy. I've made many, many & tried to use up my stash of lace, ribbon, trim, etc. to ladies I attend church with. Usually send them a postcard but am now sending them a postcard + 1 of these.
~ 1st pic using main piece 5.5" x 6.5"
~ 2nd pic using main piece & lining same - 5.5" x 7.5".

That blog is by invitation only. Any public link? I've not had much success with the two piece one (bulges!) and would like to try the five piece. Thank you.

I'm not a member of that blog and had the instructions pop up without any trouble. I can't recopy it here because it's against board policies.

Try again. It's actually pretty simple.

I made one last night and it could not have been easier or cuter! Thank you so much!

For the 5 pieces try this link http://www.barbstamps.com/files/fabr...e_holder-2.pdf

Thanks for that pattern, too!

Thanks so much!! I plan to go into my sewing room right now and stitch up a few!!:thumbup:

You are right!! These are simple yet pretty to make. I just made six within a half hour. Thanks again for posting how to do them. A picture says a thousand words!!

I've made a few and they're SEW MUCH FUN! I showed one to my 'Goth' daughter and asked her if she would like one. She said, '. . sure' so I asked her to pick out whatever fabric she liked from my stash. She picked out 30's reproduction prints!! Can you believe it??? I was stunned. I whipped one up for her while she was getting ready.

To her credit, she worked for me in my quilt shop so she has some pretty diverse taste in fabric.

I made one for my Secret Pal and will be making some for my friendship group too. Fun fun fun!!

Jane

I wish I saw this a few days ago so I could have included one in my package to my SS. But I plan to make a bunch for little handouts for Christmas.

I'd like to thank you for this tutorial, because I made about ten of them for the overseas Christmas boxes for the older girls. Thought it an awesome, fast gift. Thanks again

Thanks for putting the tutorial on here. my mother is always looking for tissues so this year i plan on making her about 10 or so and wrapping them up in a box for her for christmas. i think she will find it funny.

Get back to us about Jan. 2. I'll bet anything you'll end up make a couple dozen on top of the 10 you have in mind!

i think so - i have about 12 more cut out! one year she complained that she was always running out of check book registers - i worked at a bank at the time and got about 12 of them and wrapped them up and told her she had one for every month of the year! on another note, i belong to a sewing group where we are planning on having a "spring break at the schoolhouse" craft show to raise money for the upkeep of our little building we use - at one time it was a schoolhouse - my dad's cousin went to school there! i figured it is a great way to use up some scraps and if we sell some - great! if not there is always a use for them!

not sure how much to charge for them - i know not very much. if i put the tissues in them they would sell faster i think.

I sold a few for 1.25 each----------mosty to pay for more tissues.

ok it is Jan. 2 and i made about 18 so far! mom loved hers but for some reason the one i made for myself with pittsburgh steeler fabric somehow disappeared at her house - lol! what is even funnier is she doesn't like the steelers - she is a browns fan!

I have made lots & lots of these. They are super easy. Have given 1 to each lady in my church. Send it along with a homemade card or postcard. They are very light…. Some I made where the 2 sides are same size & used up my scraps of trims, laces, etc.
Thanks ever sooooo much for this tute.

Thank you feffertim for this neat tutorial for this little project. I made 14 of these for the girls at work when we return after two weeks off through Christmas. I think the girls will get a kick out of them. All the fabric came from work (scraps of course). I am putting them in a bag and everybody gets to pull one for a surprise and then if they want to trade them for a color or pattern they like better, they are welcome to have at it. I enjoy seeing it happen.

Thanks again for making an impact on OPLs!:D (Other Peoples Lives)
peace

EDIT: I'm so excited I forgot to add the picture! The one in the upper left was one I attempted to square the corners on. It is mine and works great but not really needed for my project.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]454977[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]454978[/ATTACH]This is one of my favorite things to make. Last year I made about 2 dozen of them in Christmas fabrics and gave them to all the ladies I worked with. This year I am at 3 different High Schools, so I had to make even more to hand out. Everyone loved them. The last few left were placed into a basket in our guest bathroom for anyone needing a tissue.

Since I like to make these in mass quantities, I cut several strips of fabric by the width needed, then sub cut to get the necessary sized. These are so simple to make, yet look so elegant. Just wish I had a server to make them even faster.

cute and fast! my kind of project! Thanks

planodebbie,
love your Christmas tissues. What a wonderful little gift to give to others! Useful too!

here are the ones i made for the QB Project of the month
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They make up so quickly. I've made about 80 in the past week. Giving out as a small gift to my crochet group and the other half are being donated to a local fire house for their Christmas Mart.