Earphone
Cable Winder
If
you just look the things, you might not know what this is right away. I posted
it at my facebook wall for few days to see whether my friend and families could
guess it. And I was right, without any clue, they couldn’t guess what the function of this thing.
Anyway,
this is an earphone cable winder. I can say that this is original, since most
of the time, before making any sewing project, I start with browsing internet
to find ideas, pictures or even patterns. But for this, I just couldn’t find anything
to start with. Sure there are some images
of cable winder, most of them are in shape of fish bone, or animal made from plastic
or rubber. But when I tried to find something that I can sew, I didn’t find it.
So
why not invent one? Sure an animal shape would be cute, but it must be quite hard
to sew a small thing neatly with sewing machine. So I made more simple shape.
These
was what I needed to make my project:
-
Some scraps of cotton fabric
-
Fusible interfacing (optional)
-
Polyester fiber fill (or cotton) for stuffing
-
A button
-
paper and pen
-
color matching thread
How to make:
1. Cut
fabric :
- One rectangular scrap, size 9 cm x 16 cm, fold it half, right side
out. This is for the pocket.
- Two rectangular scraps, size 9 cm x 12 cm
(mine are dotted and flower) these are
for the body of winder
- one rectangular 20 cm x 3.5cm, fold it half.
This is to make strap with the button hole
Cut
pattern:
- make the pattern (you can follow my simple
shape or make your own) on a piece of paper and cut it
Note: if your fabric is a medium / light weight cotton, I suggest to fuse the
interfacing on wrong side of each fabric scraps for the body to make them more
firm.
2. 
Place
your scraps for body right side together, an insert a half folded scrap fabric
for pocket between two scraps to make sandwich like picture bellow, and pin them.
3. 
Copy
pattern on to the sandwich. Sew
on the line but leave some part unsew for
turn right side out later
4. 
This
is what you get it after sew and trim
the excess. Don’t forget to leave 0,5 cm
for seam allowance
5. 
Turn
rightside out, and stuff it with fiber fill. Before
stuffing, I sew a narrow and smal zigzag stich around the edge, but its quite
difficult to sew it neatly, (you see, mine is quite messy), maybe it will be
easier if you sew straight stich, or just
skip this step if you want to.
6. 
Now you can insert the strap and sew it close. Sorry, I forget to take picture
of how to make the strap. Well, It just
a strap, and make it a button hole at edge. Then, sew a button on this small
pillow, where the button hole would be landing.
That’s all. You’re done !
And this is how it is used
And this one was a present for my niece, Aqila...
