Drawstring Tarot Bag is a simple, lined bag to keep your tarot or oracle cards safe. The pouch features a boxed bottom and a drawstring closure that is handmade from the lining fabric. There is enough fabric leftover from this project to use as an altar cloth for your readings. Craft your bag with intention on the new moon to enhance it's power, and infuse even more magic into it by leaving it out under the light of the full moon.
Protection Pouch is a simple, lined bag with boxed corners and features a drawstring closure that is handmade from the lining fabric. There is enough fabric leftover from this project to use as an altar cloth for your readings. Craft your bag with intention on the new moon to enhance the power and infuse even more magic into it by leaving it out under the light of the full moon.
This project doesn't use a lot of fabric - just a 1/2 yard or fat quarter of your main fabric and 1/4 yard of your lining fabric is perfect. I've included instructions in the pattern to make this bag custom to your deck. You will start by taking measurements of your deck to determine what size to cut out your fabric pieces. This means you can make a bag for any sized tarot or oracle deck. If you want to make the bag big enough to include your guidebook as well, be sure to measure that along with your deck.
Protection Pouch will work best with quilting cottons, canvas, and woven cottons or linens. More experienced sewists might want to use a silk or satin fabric for the lining. I choose to use a leftover piece of my main fabric as an altar cloth to put down for my readings. I didn't finish this fabric at all, but will let it fray and I keep it wrapped around my deck while its in storage.
FABRIC REQUIREMENTS
Suggested fabric is light to mid-weight cotton. Quilting cotton, linen, light canvas and double gauze work well.
Fabric A (exterior + altar cloth): 1/2 yd
Fabric B (lining + drawstring): 1/4 yd
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS NEEDED
Marking tool, sewing machine, safety pin, pins, scissors, measuring tape, iron, thread
FINISHED SIZE
Customized to your deck.
CALCULATE YOUR SIZE
Measure your deck’s circumference for length and width using a cloth tape measure all the way around. Round up to the nearest 1/2”. Fill in below to calculate your pattern size. An example is filled out for the Wild Unknown deck measurements.
CUT YOUR FABRIC
EXTERIOR AND LINING PIECES
Cut two rectangles - one each from both your exterior and lining fabric that measure:
DRAWSTRING
Cut a 22’’ x 2’’ piece of fabric from your lining fabric.
ALTAR CLOTH (optional)
Trim straight the edges of your remaining rectangle of exterior fabric as a cloth to wrap around your deck and/or use as an altar cloth for your readings.
SEWING INSTRUCTIONS
All seams are 1/2’’.
Sew Exterior
Fold fabric “A” rectangle in half, right sides together bringing the shorter ends together. The folded edge will be the bottom of your bag, and the opposite side is the top, which is left open. Along one side, measure from the top and make a mark at 5/8’’ and at 1-1/2’’. Starting at the top of the bag and backstitching at both ends, sew to the 5/8’’ mark. Then sew from the 1-1/2’’ mark to the bottom of the bag, backstitching at both ends. This opening will be for your drawstring to go through. Sew the opposite side seam from the top of bag to bottom, backstitching at both ends. Press seams open.
Sew Lining
Fold fabric “B” rectangle in half, just like the exterior. For sewing the first side, begin with a backstitch and sew from the top, stopping about 5” from the bottom of the bag. Leave a 2’’-3’’ gap, then sew the rest of the side seam. This gap will be used to turn your bag inside out. Sew the opposite side seam from the top of bag to bottom, backstitching at both ends. Press seams open.
Square bottom
Lining: With wrong side out, flatten side seam to bottom of lining, spreading open the sides and flattening the bottom corner to a point. Center the side seam in the triangle formed by the corner. Pin in place and mark a line perpendicular to the side seam 5/8’’ from the corner. Stitch across this line. Trim to 1/4’’ from stitching. Repeat for other lining corner as well as both bottom corners of bag exterior.
Make bag
Turn your bag exterior right side out, leaving the lining wrong side out. Slip the outer bag into the lining. Line up the side seams and top edges. Pin along the top. Stitch completely around the top of the bag sewing the lining to the outer bag at 1/2”. Turn bag right side out through the hole you left in the lining and carefully use a pointer to turn out the corners. You can close up the lining hole by either slip-stitching it by hand or edge-stitching it on the machine.
Now that the hole is closed, push the lining into the bag and press the top edge so that it is nice and crisp. Top stitch around the top of the bag 1” from the top to make a casing for your drawstring.
Make drawstring
Press your 22” by 2” piece of fabric in half lengthwise to be 22” x 1”. Unfold it, and press each edge into meet the center crease you just created. Leave the edges folded in and press in half again down the center crease. Your piece should now measure 1/2” by 22” with all raw edges hidden. Edge stitch this down the edge, starting and stopping 1/2” from the ends.
Thread the drawstring through the hole in the outside of the bag using a safety pin pinned to one end as a guide. Once it is through remove your safety pin and tie knots in each end of drawstring. You’re finished!
You can use your remaining rectangle of fabric as a cloth to wrap around your deck and/or use as an altar cloth for your readings. For a more finished cloth you may choose to hem the edges or finish with pinking shears. Enjoy!
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