7 Really Useful Diy Travel Accessories to Sew

Check out these diy travel accessories you can sew for your next trip. Super useful to have! Either use this free sleep mask pattern from a while ago or a few other practical diy travel storage items with free patterns and tutorials – they will all make your vacation so much cozier!

First off, you might not know it, but I’ve got tons of FREE PATTERNS on this site, including these you will really want to check out:

Back to travel accessories: Here are more than 7 amazingly useful DIY accessories to sew for when you go on vacation, with free patterns and tutorials: Travel pillow, free sleep mask pattern, tons of zipper pouches and jewelry storage bags, cable organizer and more.

Diy Travel Accessories

Before you start your next traveling adventure, make yourself a few diy travel accessories you’ll love. These just might quickly become top priority on your list to sew!

1) Travel Jewelery Organizer

No more searching for your earrings and a matching necklace – and no more tangled mess! I made this cute jewelry pouch to organize my jewelry when travelling. And I thought you might use it too, so I made a pattern for it – tutorial HERE.

2) Sleep Mask – FREE PATTERN

Get your free pattern HERE.

Sew your own diy sleep mask using the free sewing pattern and make it easier to relax on any trip!

3) Jewelry Storage Pouch – FREE Pattern

Get FREE Pattern HERE.

Packing jewelery and want it to be totally safe – and in separate compartments? Use these mini pouches to store them separately, and put them into a larger pouch (see below). You’ll always have a safe way to quickly store your earrings on the go – so practical! Grab the free pattern for the smallest pouch you’ll ever make – and make them in matching prints with the next one:

4) Travel Cosmetic Bag – Free Template

Cosmetic bag tutorial HERE.

An easy travel cosmetic bag to hold all your makeup you need on vacation. It comes with a free template you can use to make a bag with 4 small interior slip pockets and a main compartment – an easy and simple design you can make fit any style.

5) Boxy Makeup Zipper Pouch – Free Pattern

Need something more ‘boxy’? Here’s how to sew the perfect small boxy zipper pouch you can use in a gazillion of things. Makeup too! – Free pattern in 2 sizes.

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6) Diy Shoe Storage Bag

If you only have time to sew one item from this list, then choose this free shoe storage pouch pattern! It’s a brilliant solution to store anything and everything on your vacation: in addition to keeping your shoes away from your clothes, it will also home your other travel gear like electronics or cables, it can serve as a great first aid kit, and think how brilliant it would be to store individual types of apparel in separate pouches – never search for socks again!

7) Simple Zippered Storage Pouch

You can never have enough zipper pouches when you are traveling, or on vacation (or at home, that is ;). This one at AppleGreen Cottage is easy to make and you can use it for just anything – even for storing your sleep mask – see No 2 on this list! It will keep it safely separated from the rest of your stuff. Get your FREE PDF Sewing Pattern for this Polka-Dot Zipper Pouch here.

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Or …check out this popular PDF pattern – the Kalina Mini Wallet. So practical!

This mini wallet pattern is just perfect for travel!