Cute and Free Tissue Box Cover Sewing Pattern • Heather Handmade

Learn how to sew a cute tissue box cover with a free sewing pattern. This beginner sewing project is great for the home and a handmade gift.

Do you like the look of purchased tissue boxes? I have a lot of blue in my house so I also choose a blue tissue box print, but the prints have a lot to be desired.

I decided to make a tissue box cover, and I designed a pattern so you can make your own! There’s a rectangle tissue box and a square tissue box cover, and they are really easy to sew. I LOVE how mine turned out, and I love looking at it in my kitchen and front room!

Wouldn’t it be fun to make holiday versions with pretty holiday fabric?

What fabric should I use to make a tissue box cover?

The best fabric to make a tissue box cover is quilting cotton. It’s easy to sew, easy to find, and comes in every print and color imaginable. It makes the box durable and washable, and it’s so fun to find fabric that coordinates with your home decorations or holidays.

How do I make my tissue box cover stand up?

A tissue box cover will stand up when it’s around a tissue box, but to make it stiff and hold it’s shape it’s important to add interfacing and fusible fleece. I even quilted the fabric to the fusible fleece for an extra special detail.

The combination of the two also add a little bit of weight to the tissue box holder to help it stay on the tissue box.

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How to Make a Tissue Box Cover

Supplies

Free sewing pattern – get it at the end of the post
Two coordinating fat quarters
Fusible lightweight to medium weight interfacing
Fusible fleece
Sewing tools
Sewing machine

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Instructions

Cut one outer piece, one lining piece, one fusible interfacing, and one fusible fleece.

cut out fabric, interfacing, and fusible fleece

Iron the fusible fleece to the outer piece and the interfacing to the lining piece. Make sure the interfacing and fleece is perfectly centered before ironing it on.

Quilt the fleece and outer fabric with whatever lines you prefer. I did a couple of lines each direction about 1.5 inches apart.

Place the fabric pieces right sides together lining up all the edges. Pin the center rectangle. Sew around the rectangle with a 3/8 inch seam allowance and pivot at the corners.

sew inner rectangle with right sides together

Cut into the corners of the rectangle without cutting through any stitches.

Push the outer fabric through the hole so that the fabric pieces are wrong sides together and the center rectangle is finished edges. Press the center rectangle edges.

turn right side out through rectangle and press

Match the cut out sections to create the sides. Sew each side with a 3/8 inch seam allowance and backstitch when you start and when you stop. Do all four sides on the outer pieces and the lining piece.

Press the seams open.

Turn the outer piece right side out over the lining. They have the wrongs sides facing.

turn outer box right side out over lining

Fold up the bottom edge of the outer and lining pieces 3/8 inch. Pin them together with the seam allowances tucked inside. The edge of the interfacing and fusible fleece is a great guide to see where to fold the fabric.