Toiletry Bag – Free PDF Sewing Pattern

Looking for a practical toiletry bag, lined and zipped? This free PDF sewing pattern gives you a soft, roomy toiletry bag: at home, for a weekend, or in a suitcase.

A useful, accessible project — and the right one to learn how to fit a zip on something with volume.

✨ A lined, zipped toiletry bag

The bag is made of an outer, a lining, volume side panels, a zip, and a few small finishing pieces.

This project is for you if you want to:

• sew a genuinely practical toiletry bag;
• practise inserting a zip;
• use a fabric with body, such as jacquard or coated cotton;
• make a useful gift;
• train on a lined bag with volume.

📐 One size

The pattern comes in one size.

✂️ What you need

• one 60 × 40 cm rectangle for the outer fabric;
• one 60 × 40 cm rectangle for the lining;
• optionally one 60 × 40 cm rectangle of fusible interfacing, if your outer fabric is not stiff enough;
• one 40 cm zip;
• your usual sewing kit.

📦 What you get

• the free PDF pattern for the toiletry bag;
• the file EN-A4-Toiletry-Bag.pdf, 2 pages, fully in English;
• the same pattern in US Letter (3 pages, both test squares included);
• seam allowances of 1 cm (3/8 in) included;
• all five pieces: top, front, sides, wrist strap and tab;
• also in the download: the French, German and Spanish A4 versions;
• a step-by-step video tutorial.

🎥 The video tutorial

Julien sews the bag in the Couture Enfant video, zip included. It is in French; YouTube's auto-translated subtitles can be switched on.

🗣️ Pattern language

The sheet is fully in English: piece names, cut quantities, grain line, place-on-fold and all printing instructions. Only the video is in French.