Hello there, I hope you're doing well. Today I'm drinking the October teas, from
my Sips By box that I just got - we are drinking the Harvest Apple tea by Ahista
Tea, I'll leave a link of that in the description below if you want to check
that out.. It tastes like apple pie. So, grab yourself a drink for your tea or
your coffee and let's get started. Today I'm really excited to give you
this video, I've been waiting to record this one I'm going to show you how to
make this travel tarot mat-slash- travel bag. It doubles as a travel
tarot bag and a map so you can read on the go, and it's customizable and
incredibly easy to make. I have everything that you might need in the
description below so I've listed that just in case
Today I have Maria with me so I'm going to be teaching her how to make this mat
alongside with me. First you're just going to need a fabric of your choice
this can be cotton or silk or whatever you like. I'm going to be using these two
fabrics in the spirit of Halloween and this may or may not be the giveaway and
these two are the ones that Maria is going to be using. The next thing you're
going to need something to close your tarot bag with so this one I'm using a
stretchy band but you can also just use some nice ribbon such as this but I'll
show you how to use both of those in this tutorial so the first thing you
want to do is measure your tarot cards and figure out how big you want your mat
Maria's cards are smaller than mine so she's making a smaller Tarot mat but
again it's totally up to how large or small you want your mat to be and I
personally like my mat to completely cover my cards so that it gives it more
cushion when I put them in my bag or take them with me. This particular mat
that I'm using here is 19"x13" inches but remember to leave seam allowance
when you're making your cut if you want to make this exact same length then cut
20"x14" so that you have that extra seam allowance when you're sewing them
together so we're going to start with Maria's Tarot bag I'm going to walk her
through how to do this and we are going to wrap it just like you saw
the first tarot mat of just with a ribbon you want to take your fabric and
flip it on to the wrong side up meaning whatever pretty design you have you want
it facing downwards so that it's easier to mark where you're going to cut so as
I said before in the beginning, Maria's cards are much smaller than mine
so we're just kind of folding over the fabric and getting a general idea of
where we might want to cut and again you don't have to use the dimensions that I
personally used so try it with your cards to see where you want to cut and
just remember cutting more fabric than less than you need is always better
because you can always cut more off but you can't add it back so once you have
that first piece just lay it straight over your next piece and don't worry if
you didn't cut completely straight because you're going to be sewing these
two together and flipping them inside out, so as long as you sew somewhat
straight it should be fine. If you have pins I recommend pinning these two
pieces together so that it's easier to use as a stencil and it doesn't move
around if you don't have pins than anything like clothing pins or bobby
pins or even those black office clips can actually work too. So once you have
your two pieces cut out and pinned keep them pinned because now we're going to
figure out where to place the ribbon that's going to hold our tarot mat
closed. Grab your ribbon and we're gonna figure out how much we need, and I don't
really have a certain length again it depends on the size of your cards but to
figure it out just put your cards in your mat and wrap them up as if your mat
is finished, use the ribbon to wrap your cards together however much a ribbon
you'd like to use it's totally up to you but I find that wrapping them around
completely twice usually works pretty well. Leaving a little bit of a tail so
that you can tuck it in and secure it once you have your ribbon cut measure
the shortest side of your tarot mat if you have a short side and find the
middle point the middle point is where you're going to secure your ribbon so
this part can be a little tricky: you're going to put your ribbon in between your
two pieces of fabric with the right sides facing together so once you have
that middle point put the right in the middle point in between the
two right sides of the fabric and pin it into place so then when we flip it
inside out the ribbons going to be on the outside this is where it starts to
all come together so now you can either hand stitch it or use a sewing machine
but just sew all the way around leaving a gap like this so notice in the corner
that I did go around the corner this just ensures that there is a sharp
corner and I would back stitch over where the ribbon is a few times just to
make sure that it's super secure and it's not going to go anywhere so leave a
little opening so that you can flip it inside out and then hand stitch that
closed later on teaching Maria to sew
so real quick before we completely finish off her tarot map I'm going to
brush over the band method instead of the ribbon method with my own tarot mat
that I'm making here so just like the ribbon you're going to take a measuring
tape or some kind of ruler and find the middle point of the shortest side of
your tear on that or wherever you want to secure your band and again just like
the ribbon you're going to secure it in between the two pieces of fabric with
the right sides facing together the only difference is that with the band you're
going to secure both ends so that you can wrap it around and secure it kind of
like a hair tie but just make sure that it's not twisted in a weird way so here
just to secure it with a pin and same thing like the ribbon go over it a few
times just to make sure that it's extra secure but other than that small detail
everything is pretty much the same and after you've run it under the sewing
machine or hand sewed it together sewing all the way around getting all of those
corners and leaving that extra little gap so that we can flip it inside out to
make sure that you get really crisp sharp edges I like to trim pretty close
to where so just be careful not to trim where the thread is or it will all
unravel cutting off each of those corners makes it a lot easier to get a
really sharp corner when you flip it inside out and once you're done here
I completely forgot to do this when we were making these tarot mats but I like
to run a iron over the edges and flatten them down because then when you flip it
inside out it comes out a lot cleaner
so this is the part where everything comes together you just pull through
that small gap that you left when you were sewing so that both of the right
sides come out I like to use a pencil or some scissors and poke out the corners
so that I can get that really sharp crisp corner
lastly if you have an iron just go over it quickly like I said it's a lot
cleaner if you iron down those edges before you flip it inside out but it
doesn't really make a huge difference so just ironing out all of those
wrinkles and all of those bubbles I guess the "poofs" that the sides kind
of get but that will come out due to time as well then you're pretty much
done now of course you can hand sew that gap closed. I did have some people give
me a really great idea of slipping papers with sigils inside there, and you
can either sew that closed or continuously switch them out, but I
personally like to close mine so that is how you make a DIY travel tarot mat so
you can easily take your tarot mat on the go and if you're a quilter you can also
put some of the quilt batting in there to make it even softer some of you have
some wonderful skills embroidery so I would love to see some of those things
implemented in this tarot mat tutorial if you create one of these taro mats please
please please show us what you made because I love seeing all of your
creative ideas and your personal twists on things and share that with the
hashtag, #wonderlustcoven on Instagram all of you have such amazing posts and I
absolutely love seeing everything that is on that hashtag but that is all that
I have for you today and I hope that it becomes just as nifty as it is for me
other than that as always, I will see you in the next video.
Best of luck, be kind to each other
and may your gods treat you, as you've treated others.
Bye.