Like all cats, she loves string and being in the way most of the time. This poses a problem when I am in embroidery mode. I had taken to keeping my needles, string and scissors between the fold of an old rag to prevent little claws from running off with everything.
That's when I found this tutorial on Pinterest. The solution to my problems.
Materials:
- Felt. About 5 of those rectangles you get in the kids craft section will do.
- Scissors
- Sewing machine and sewing machine things
- Pins
- Rolator cutter and mat
- Ribbon (Like 24" worth)
- Gray (outside) 6 1/2" x 11 3/4"
- Gray (inside) 6 1/4" x 11 1/2"
- Purple (outside "ruffle") 7" x 2"
- Blue (outside "ruffle") 7" x 2"
- Green (outside "ruffle") 7" x 2"
- Purple (scissor sleeve) depends on your scissors, but cut 3" x 6"
- Blue (envelope) 5 3/4" x 7 1/2"
- Green (envelope flap) 5 3/4" x 4"
- Purple (needle flap) 3" x 6 3/4"
2. Starting with the outside piece, sew the three "ruffles" together. Use a decorative stitch on your machine if you have them. Overlap the pieces by 1".
When you sew the last one (green), attach it to the gray piece. Place it by lining up the top (purple) piece with pins, but don't sew it there yet. When you sew the last (green) piece, place 9" of your ribbon under the flap about an inch as you sew it. Your ruffles will hang over the sides of the gray. You'll trim it later.
As you can see, I also cut along my decorative stitch line to give it a ruffly look. Cool. Set it aside for now. It's on to the inside.
3. The needle flap. Fold it about 1 1/2" behind itself and use more decorative stitches! Attach it about 1/4" inside the right side.
4. The envelope. Make the edge of the your envelope flap (green) ruffled with your decorative stitch again. Then attach the un-ruffled edge to the envelope body (blue). Put the edges together flush and use a zigzag stitch to hold them together
5. Fold the envelope body (blue) up on itself, short about 3/4". Sew it in place by just sewing up the sides onto the inside (gray) piece, about 1/4" away from the needle flap.
6. Fold down the envelope flap (green) above the zigzag and sew about 1/4" at the top to keep it closed, but still allow it to function as an envelope.
7. Moving on... the scissor sleeve. Fold the scissor (purple) piece in half and tailor it in a curve around your embroidery scissors. Sew it onto the inside piece on the other side of the envelope.
8. Place the inside and outside (gray) pieces with wrong sides together and sew around the perimeter. When you are sewing along the top ruffle, place a 9" piece of ribbon 1" in.
9. Now trim around the sides of the clutch so everything looks perfect and pretty (like you!)
And like that, you are keeping your threads and needles out of feline clutches and into your own embroidery clutch.
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