Make reaching for your glasses more fun with these padded fabric enveloped cases by Jess Entwhistle. Choose gorgeous fabrics for a useful and stylish gift
GLASSES CASE
YOU WILL NEED
■ Outer fabric: 20x40cm
■ Lining fabric: 20x40cm
■ Iron-on fusible fleece: 20x40cm
■ Snap fastener
■ Egg cup, for rounding corners
■ Erasable fabric marker
■ Matching thread
■ Basic sewing kit
FABRICS USED
■ The fabrics used are from the Faraway Places collection by Elizabeth Olwen for Cloud9 Fabrics.
■ Llama Life, Mustard. Ref: 207702.
Lookout. Ref: 207901. Woven Tales.
Ref: 207801. For stockists visit hantexonline.co.uk
NOTES
■ Use a 1cm seam allowance.
■ We used a snap fastener to close our glasses case, but a magnetic fastener or hook could also be used.
CUTTING OUT
Step one From the outer fabric cut: Case back: one 16x18cm.
Case front: one 10x18cm. Step two Press the iron-on fleece onto the wrong side (WS) of the lining fabric, then cut:
Case back lining: one 16x18cm.
Case front lining: one 10x18cm.
ASSEMBLING THE CASE SECTIONS
Step one Use the egg cup to draw curves on the corners of the case back pieces and the bottom two corners of the case front pieces. Cut away the corners around the curves. Step two Pin the case front pieces right sides (RS) facing with the matching case back pieces along the bottom long edges. The outer fabric back piece needs to be upside down as in the image so that the print will be facing the right way up when the glasses flap is closed.
Step three Sew together around the two short sides and along the bottom, removing t
