Needle Case and Zippered Bag

I always forget how hard it is to photograph black fabric until I try. This was the best I could do, under the circumstances (which was crazy snow storm, no sun in sight outside and thus lots of flash washing out the details). The background to this Christmas present is that my mother’s knitting corner is a disaster area consisting of two baskets, four paper bags, a lot of tangled yarn and no measuring tape or yarn needles. She has about seven crooked knitting needles of each size, none which match. At all. So I decided to make her this needle case with a small zippered bag for the small stuff, to help with the organisation of it all. I used this tutorial for the needle case and this one for the bag. I followed the latter to the last detail, but freestyled my little heart out with the former, as usual.

Here it is with the lid folded down. The lid piece was juuuust an inch too short, so I improvised a contrasting edge with the fabric I used for the inside. You want a lid that goes down over the lower edge of the pockets, or the needles WILL fall out every time you pick the damn thing up. Trust me on that one.

Slightly open. Should’ve opened it more for a better effect, shouldn’t I? Yeah. I should have. I didn’t, though, so you have to trust me on that there is in fact two rows of pockets – short ones for double pointed needles and tall ones for straight needles. I hate them, personally, but my mother uses nothing else.

All rolled up and ready to go. And yes, blurry. Sorry about that.

I love the birds on this fabric. It’s Ikea, by the way, and rather thick for this project, but it worked okay, since the lining fabric was super thin to make up for it.

I like this bag even more than the needle case – definitely easier to make all professional looking.

Posted: January 1st, 2010 under all my posts.
Tags: finished objects, sewing

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