A cell phone case

Today it rained. I didn't feel any need to rush. I didn't even know what I would work on in class until I had been there a little while. I brought along material and patterns for three different things and finally decided to make a cellphone case.

It took me a while to cut out the little pieces, in part because there were lots of them and in part because some were cut from the base fabric, some from "contrast 1" fabric, some from "contrast 2" fabric, some from fusible fleece, and finally some from paperbacked webbing. Sheesh. Yet it's a small project and it doesn't take much fabric altogether.

My first challenge came with the fusible fleece. The instructions to fuse it were not included with the fabric so I wasn't sure how to fuse it. I asked Linda, she said use a press cloth (she tore me a piece), don't worry about getting it wet (many of the instructions for similar products say to wet the press cloth). She tested it by using the point of the iron on a part of it and seeing if it fused, which it did. It was a little tricky figuring out which side fuses and which side does not but I managed to guess right.

Then I had trouble with sewing. My machine kept clogging up and not actually sewing. I have never seen it act this way before and I was about to call Linda again but instead I looked at the troubleshooting pages in my manual. One possibility was that the upper threading was wrong. I figured maybe that was it so I did it over and indeed that was it.

Once these issues were ironed out I just started sewing and fusing and lo! I got the baby done by the end of the day. There is more fusing, I think, than actual sewing.

And here it is, with my small camera in it:

front.

back.

A cool thing about this is that it matches the bag I made. Coordination! Another cool thing is that it is made with leftover fabric. Yes, I had to fork out for the fleece and webbing but otherwise it's practically free...