Glasses Case With Cuff

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double sided pre-quilted fabric
contrast cuff - binding trim
nicely finished inside

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It starts with your own custom pre-quilted fabric!

DIY pre-quilted fabric tutorial

Step one is to go to our free tutorial on making your own double-sided, pre-quilted fabric. Why learn how to make it yourself? Double-sided, pre-quilted fabric comes and goes in stores, and tends to be quite expensive. It is very easy to make - and by making it yourself you have an endless set of choices for the fabric.

Use your double sided pre-quilted fabric for totes, glasses cases, appliance covers, phone covers and many other projects.

Follow the tutorial to make one 8.5" square of double-sided prequilted fabric. Go to: Prequilted Fabric Tutorial.

Top Closure: button & loop or self-adhesive velcro dots

We will be adding a lesson on sewing a button and loop closure. It’s quite easy. Hand stitch the base of the loop to the inside back of this case(choose a side to be the “back”) when the case is completed, and add a button to the outside of the opposite side. Or use velcro dots (Hook & Loop Self Adhesive Dots).

Amazon carries an assortment of velcro dots and decorative buttons.

Glasses Case Size

Finished size: 3.75" x 6.5"

All seams are 1/4".

NOTE: Adjust measurements to fit your glasses.

Supplies

One 8.5" square of double-sided prequilted fabric.
Binding Cuff Edge: One strip of binding fabric measuring 9" x 1.5"
Binding Inside Seam (optional): One strip of binding fabric measuring 7" x 1.5"

Other

thread to match background of fabric
large sewing ruler (optional but nice to have)
scissors or rotary cutter
pins

DIRECTIONS

Create Cuff Edge Binding

Fold the binding in half wrong sides together, lengthwise. Press. Unfold and fold in the outer edges to the center fold. Press. Unfold.

Decide which side of the fabric will be the outside (I chose the floral side). Stitch the binding to the outside of the prequilted fabric, lining up edges. Stitch along the fold line (or approximately 1/4" from the edge).

The stitching is enhanced in red.

Flip the binding to the opposite side (blue) and machine stitch into place, close to the folded edge. Square up the block (even up the sides and trim off any excess binding).

Create Cuff

Turn the block right side up. Turn the upper edge of the block down 1.75". This creates the cuff. Pin the cuff in a couple of places to hold it down.

Fold the block lengthwise (fold line is top to bottom), right sides together. Pin. Stitch the side seam, and across the bottom edge.
OPTIONAL: If you wish to cover your inside seam with seam binding, but a piece of binding long enough for the side seam, and 1.5" wide.

I serged across the bottom edge, and used my regular machine to straight stitch the sideseam. The stitching is enhanced in red.

Attach the sideseam binding the same way the cuff edge binding was attached. I pressed under the end of the binding that would be at the top of the case, so that it had a finished edge that would not later ravel. This binding is not necessary, but I feel it makes a nicely finished case. I don't like to look inside items and see raw seam edges.

Turn your new glasses case right side out. I used a large, metal crochet hook to push out the corners.

finished glasses case with contrast cuff

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