Easy Peasy Sunglasses Bag

So I really REALLY fell in love with the material I got from Spotlight for the back of my Country Kitchen Apron, and I've been trying to find a use for as much of it as possible.

When I carried my sunnies around with my in my hand bag they always ended up really dusty and needed to be cleaned almost every time I put them on (which isn't a good thing when you're driving!)

So there was a pretty long piece of the material left over, and if I folded it then it was just the right width to hold my sunglasses. So I sewed it together up the sides, and using a pink sheet of felt cut out the same size and sewed up the sides of that to make the inside of the bag.
Next I got a small length of pink ribbon and folded it in half tying the ends in knots so they wouldn't get lost inside the bag if you pulled one side too hard.
I flipped the material inside out so the stitches are on the inside, and slipped the felt inside the material (leave the stitches on the outside).
Stick the ribbon between the two layers all the way around the bag, and then fold over a small lip on the material side of the bag. Sew all the way around the bag leaving just enough of an opening for the ribbon to slide in and out of, leave a gap between the ribbon and stitch the gap closed.

Easy Peasy! Just make sure you don't catch your ribbon in your stitches, then slide your sunnies inside and pull the ribbon tight and VIOLA!!! You have your very own sunglasses bag!

Never Leave Home without your Companion Cube!

Now, I know that last blog I promised a flashy new blog all on how to make your own hogwarts robes.... but lets face it I lied....

Not entirely though, I do have the robes sitting here in front of me, however after trying them on again they need a bit of tweaking, and I somehow managed to sew the clasp on WAY to high and now it crushes my windpipe when I close it. So this has to be fixed up, and soon, because its nothing but the best for my readers! See how much I love you? No shoddy photos or half attempted projects here!

Now for the last few days I have been sick with some virus flu type monstrosity... which had my sneezing and coughing and running a temperature, and totally NOT feeling up to sewing minute details onto silk, or using too much effort on anything at all, so I decided to keep myself busy while I was in bed, I would make a Portal themed project!

Introducing the Companion Cube from Portal.... in a handy take it anywhere you freaking feel like it size!

This Image here (with the hand) Is what I have made. The Image on the right is my reference which I got from HERE! It was fairly simply to make, required very little materials, and looks pretty darn awesome if I do say so myself!


So I started off with some of those needlepoint squares, the plastic ones.  As you can see in the next photo (also using my hand as a size reference for you all!) I'm not sure of what the proper name for these little babies are so If you know please comment on it for the other viewers! Then I had some pink yarn, light gray yarn, and dark gray yarn, and a black texter. Following the reference I marked out the pattern for each color, on 6 different squares, and started sewing until my heart was content. I used a large yarn needle that I had to pull through the holes, but don't worry these plastic thingies have plenty of give. It doesn't matter how the back of each square looks, it can be messy it can be neat, as long as you tie off your loose ends when you have finished using a color. I left some long tails of the light and dark gray yarn to stitch up the edges so it wouldn't look so lumpy. And be careful how tight you pull your yarn, even though the plastic has some give it can still break and this would be bad!
 Leave one of the edges open when you are stitching up your sides to finish, and you can put anything you like inside it. I just used some craft stuffing, but you can put anything inside it to make it weighted.

ENJOY!!! and believe me the Hogwarts Robe Tutorial is coming soon. I do apologize once again for delaying it, but as I said I was sick and didn't feel like fixing any of my problems just then.

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