Little Triangle Thread-Catcher and More

These are not reversible. There is a time of decision for which will be the turn-down tab and which the bag's base. Pattern is cut the same for each, so there's time to decide which will be which just before you begin sewing up those fold to stop-mark seams.

These small "thread catchers" are supposed to keep me company sitting by my machine ready to receive any little thread snippets that I normally toss on the floor...if I bother snipping them at all. I'm going to have to change my messy ways, if this is going to be used as intended. Good thing I've already thought of alternate uses for these in the mean time. Don't you think they would be great little Dove chocolates holders for gifting? Or maybe a nightstand earring holder for when you are away from home for a night or two? Or...hair clip or elastic band holders...or desktop paper clip boxes? Seriously! It's just cute, even if not being used for anything. 

If you needed a larger based catch-all, I think you could size them up a few inches. My sister-in-law suggested making them to match placemats and somehow put napkins in them, but they have a closed bottom, so I'm not sure how that would work. Still, it could be revamped for that, I suppose. 

Definitely the hardest thing about making it is figuring out what buttons to use on the flaps.

Click on the link below to see where I found the pattern and the "how-to" of assembling it:

Here! Right here! Click. Click. Click!