St. Patrick’s Day Crafts to Make With Your Serger
St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to pull out your serger and quickly put together some holiday-themed crafts. Make some shamrock pillows for your couch, sew lucky coin bags to give treats in, decorate your table with placemats or a table runner, or make some cute clothing pieces for your favorite little one.
These crafts are versatile in they are an excellent way to use up scraps, or you can purchase new fabrics to create them. So pull out your serger and get crafting!
Easy Shamrock Decoration or Pillow
With this tutorial by Cindy of Riley Blake Designs, you can make an easy shamrock decoration to hang on the wall or add a second layer to create a quick shamrock pillow. The tutorial has you cut out two different sized shamrocks, fusing a smaller one on top of a larger one. Choose a solid green and a fun St. Patrick’s Day print to complement one another.
If you choose to make a decorative throw pillow, you can sandwich the fused layers wrong sides together and use your serger to finish the edges, leaving a small section unsewn. Stuff with polyfill and then stitch it closed for an adorable pillow.
Lucky Shamrock Coin Bags
Are you looking for an incredibly quick, easy to sew project? If so, this tutorial for lucky shamrock coin bags needs to go on your to-sew list. Use drop cloths like the tutorial does or choose to work with St. Patrick’s Day fabrics to make these little pouches for friends and family.
Start with a simple square or rectangle, fold it in half, and sew the seams. Easy peasy! Fill the coin bag with chocolate candies or other treats. Then use a piece of jute, baker’s twine, or green ribbon to tie the top of the bag closed.
Shamrock Placemats
Sewing some St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock placemats is a great way to decorate your holiday table without spending a ton of money. With less than two yards of fabric and some batting, you can create 5 or 6 placemats using this quick tutorial. The simple instructions are great for beginners too who are new to using their serger.
Applique a dark, solid-colored shamrock onto a light holiday-themed quilting cotton, sandwich the layers together, and then use your overlocker to finish the edges of the placemat. Finishing the placemats this way means there’s no need for binding or sewing the pieces right sides together and flipping everything right-sides out.
See the Shamrock Placemat Tutorial here.
Simple St. Patrick’s Day Table Runner
Using either jelly-roll fabrics or cutting your own strips, this simple table runner quickly and smoothly goes together, especially when using your serger to piece the strips together. Blocks of coordinating perpendicular stripes add contrast and interest to the piece. A combination of holiday-themed fabric pairs nicely with solids or low volume patterns.
After sandwiching the layers and quilting them together, use your serger to attach the binding to the quilt. This helps to compress the layers at the outer edge to give the appearance of an excellent, flat binding once you fold it over and stitch it down.
Quick Envelope Pillow Cover
This quick tutorial is a fun way to dress up your couch pillows for a holiday without making a full brand new pillow. An envelope pillow cover is quick to sew up and easy to put on around St. Patrick’s Day. After the holiday passes, it’s also much easier to store a cover than a themed pillow.
From start to finish, this pillow cover can be sewn together in about 10 minutes and uses approximately half a yard of fabric for a 17-inch pillow. You could even patchwork different St. Patrick’s Day fabrics together or strip piece them to create a more intricate pillow cover design.
Holiday Fabric Bunting
Decorate a room in your home with this fun and easy beginning serger project. All you need is St. Patrick’s Day fabric, a rotary cutter, ruler, and mat to cut triangles, and a serger! Customize the size of the triangles and the length of the banner to fit your space. Opt for a single fabric print, mix and match quilting cottons, or mix quilting cotton with other textiles like felt, corduroy, or wool. After cutting triangles, use an overlock stitch to chain them together.
If you want to add some extra flair, embroider shamrocks onto the fabric triangles or use vinyl to embellish this.
Ruffled Skirt
If you’ve got an adorable little girl — or two — in your life, this ruffled bottom skirt is a quick, cute project to tackle for St. Patrick’s Day. The darling in your life will twirl round and round in a frilly, elastic waist skirt sewn in shamrock fabrics and edged with a gathered ruffle.
Using your serger makes quick work of this project. Use it to create ruffles, finish the ruffle edge with a rolled hem, and then attach the ruffle to the skirt bottom. Since the serger finishes all of the raw edges, the skirt’s inside seams will never fray.
Baby Leg Warmers
Transform a pair of St. Patrick’s Day knee-high socks — check the dollar store for cheap options — into super cute baby leg warmers in a snap. This project is excellent for your little one, especially if they are crawling, or to give as a gift for a birthday or baby shower. These leg warmers look adorable with a onesie or when paired with a cute skirt on little girls.
Using the top cuff of the sock for the one cuff on the leg warmer, you cut off the heel portion and then use the foot to create the other cuff. An overlock stitch from your serger gives the seam some stretch, allowing the leg warmer to easily be placed on the baby or taken off.
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About Amanda S.: Growing up, I was fascinated by watching my mom and grandma turn fabric into beautiful handcrafted items. In my early 20’s, I finally got brave, buying a sewing machine and teaching myself to sew. As I fell in love with sewing, my machine collection expanded, and I ran an Etsy shop sewing children’s clothing for a few years. As a single mom of 3 great kids, my sewing time has lessened, but I still try to find time to work on quilts, bags, and projects with my kids, teaching them what I love.