i was sick of losing my needles all the time and constantly buying new ones. so i got mr. pfaff (sewing machine) out after a long abstinence and made myself this cute little needles book. needles: beware! i’m not going to lose you again!
the cover is made of ikea fabric (love the colour and pattern!), it has 4 grey felt pages for needles and the cute stare buttons are the ones i bought at „all the fun of the fair“ in london last october.
i needed something to wrap my „äpfelchen“ in before i put it in the laptop thingy of my rucksack. the rucksack was not made for such a lovely small notebook, and the macbook was really wobbling around in there, so i sewed this very simple felt cozy/sleeve for my baby:
felt it was time for a new ipod cozy… i got bored with my old, ugly rubber one and don’t like just tossing my beauty in my bags… so i came up with this rocking little cozy 😉
unfortunately i found out that felt isn’t great to stencil on. due to the texture of the fabric the paint soaks under the stencil a little.
but anyway: it’s pink, it’s stencil, it’s rock’n’roll!
i thought about making a whole bunch of these and sell them on etsy/dawanda shop. in all kinds of colours and with all kinds of messages… iRock, iPop, myPod, iDance,….
what do you think?! 🙂
i’m trying to sell my little blue dress at dawanda: http://cazcrafts.dawanda.com
hm, there’s actually no occasion for this dress. i just though that sewing girls‘ dresses would be a lot of fun. they are so cute! so i went to karstadt and got myself a sewing pattern for this little dress…
it’s (german) size 92, the blue fabric is from the sale at karstadt, the dotted one is from ikea.
doesn’t it look nice?! such a quick and easy piece to sew. the only challenge was the application – my first one. but it turned out quite good for the first try 🙂
a lot of people asked me for a tutorial for my ipod cozies. so here it is:
STEP 1
you need:
STEP 2
cut a 1.5cm piece from the bigger felt piece. you’ll need the strap to attach the keyring.
STEP 3
mark where the hole for the headphone cable needs to be. i usually put my ipod on the felt to see where i need to put it exactly. to give you an idea:
now you need to push a hole through the felt for the headphones. if you have a ticket-punch – brilliant. but you can use anything really. i use the things that come with snap fasteners (one of those metal things, a plastic underlay and a hammer).
make sure the hole is big enough for the base of the headphone cable and fits snugly.
STEP 4
cut a piece of ribbon that is a bit longer than the piece of felt.
attach the ribbon to where you want it. wrap the ribbon round the edges, pin and sew. neaten the ends.
STEP 5
now you use the strap you cut off earlier. make a loop and sew. neaten the ends.
attach the hanger to the back of the cozy and sew. neaten the ends.
your ipod cozy should look something like that now.
STEP 6
attach a button to the piece of felt you folded up.
you can also attach your custom lable if you have one. i have ones you can iron on, which is good here: you need to keep in mind that you will see all the seams you make as there is only one layer of felt and no lining under which you can hide seams or yarn ends…
before you go on to the next step, make sure you are finished with all your decorations, applications, ribbons, buttons, lables etc. it will be more difficult to sew on the stuff once you did step 7.
STEP 7
fold up the lower part and sew once down the right, and once down the left side of the cozy. neaten the ends.
STEP 8
we are almost done! cut a button hole in the top flap. make sure it’s neither too small nor too big. i use sharp scissors for that, but you can also use a cutter.
STEP 9
here we go. just pull the keyring through the loop on the back and you’re done!
…it finally arrived in london and ella is modeling her new bag. she loves it because it has „a funny face“ 🙂
i’m happy she likes it (and the chocolate eggs i put in the birds belly 😉 )
