This is the first installment of the Mid-Week Mini. For my small projects, I will post them mid-week as a "mini" project. Now, don't get used to this blog-post-twice-a-week thing. It is just for the occasional small, simple things I have on my plate. :-)
Let me start from the beginning. For Christmas, Santa got me a new digital camera. [Insert me jumping up and down here]. This camera is hot pink and matches my personalty, for I love, love pink. My last camera I had for about eight or nine years; I really can't complain because it has served me well. I did drop it about a couple of months ago and a piece that held the battery door closed, chipped off. It still closes, but one side is not secure. So, I really hinted at my honey that a camera was at the top of my Christmas list.
The case that my old camera came in was a zippered clamshell. It served it's purpose and held additional batteries. My new camera has a rechargable battery that has a special adaptor, so I don't need to carry around the extra batteries anymore.
I wanted a cute cozy for my new camera that I could easily carry in my purse, while protecting the screen. I was originally going to knit it a "sock", with lime green sock yarn. I had it all planned out, I just needed the time to do it. Well, it has been three weeks since Christmas and my time to do this has not arrived. Instead, I went to my scrap bag and dug out a piece of felted sweater. I felted a few sweaters to repurpose, but I have not blogged about it yet, so I will not spill the beans on what my reason for felting sweaters were (some of you out there know, but, shhhh, don't say anything).
Anyway, the piece I chose to use was a section of a sleeve. When you felt wool, you are essentially ruining the piece of knit. But, you are
intentionally ruining it. You do this by washing pure wool in a hot water bath or washing machine on high agitation. I will get more into it when I blog about the sweaters. This project only used one of the discarded sleeves.
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| Felt will not fray when cut |
I cut a portion off that was slightly longer than the camera and turned it inside-out and sewed the side seam a bit more. I fit the camera in it so it would be snug and sewed the side seam again a little closer. Once I was satisfied that it fit, I then sewed the bottom seam and trimmed the hem and clipped the corner. Then I turned it right-side out.
Next, I took a regular covered hair elastic and a button I had in my button jar.
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| Just a few odds & ends |
I left the top edge raw. I hand-sewed the button to the front and then hand-sewed the hair elastic to the back. This way, the hair elastic will keep the camera in place when it is stretched over the top and buttoned in the front.
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| Wool-aful! |
Viola! A little camera cozy. This was a fun project that took no time to do. I was happy to use my scraps and it is cute as well.
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| Hot-Pink Mamma! |
Thanks honey, I love my new camera! And I love the new cozy I made for it; it sure beats knitting a sock on a pair of toothpicks, right Kathy? Hey blog-readers...send me some of your completed or WIPs. I need to know I'm not the only one that has them. C'mon!!
