Blissmade: Ipod Phone Case!

So i came through this creative idea of an Ipod phone case when i wanted to sew myself one! Its a cover and you cannot use the phone when it inside...though if you slide the phone the right way in, into the phone cover, where you got the earphone socket? you can just plug the earphone and listen to music on your phone!

Let's see what we need to have for it shall we?

1) Phone-,-

2) Siccor, permanent marker Glue ( If you hate to sew & make sure you buy something that pastes very well! ) or if you're sewing get the needle and some thread matching colors to the material you want to sew your cover with.

3) Stretchy Material for the cover. ( Can use any material..I used a silky and shiny one though i'm not sure the exact name of it.. o.0 but it makes the cover look elegant, and cute aswl.. and i got a very dark green color almost like black. Oh and get any size of the cloth 'coz we only need enough to make the cover depending on the phone size of yours. So get a little but not a lot.)

4) A white material for the Ipod interface.

5) Any other accessories or cute stuff like stones you would like to decorate the cover with. :) I used a lace and i'll tell you why-,- :D

LET'S START !! :D

1) First, take the material you want and cut it to average double and more of your phone size. Meaning, say your phone is an exact square shape? then mark two sizes of the same square shape with your head from the material.. and then get your siccors and cut like with a inch more space. ( The inch is to sew)

Hope the images are clear! I'm sorry something happened to my camera! The flash doesn't show the material's actual texture, so i mad sure i did my best to show it to you!! :)

So my material size was this, Its silky and shiny, and i'll ask my mum and tell you what the material is, 'coz i cut it our from a skirt :P

To show you how much i needed for my cover, i will show the phone i have. Its a Sony Xperia Tipo..and the people who've got the Tipo dual, this the same size..and for others don't worry! i'm teaching basically so there's no exact size and measurement i'm mentioning! :)

Here's how much i needed for my cover. I actually didn't have much of this material since i cut it out from a skirt and apparently i'v cut the same skirt when i was small for something else!! :P Remember i did not provide any size. The only size when your picking the material size you want to check is whether your phone can wrap around itself without any stress in the material.

So remember we are still in the first step to cut the material. Now since i've explained the purpose and what you need to do for the material size..etc.. I will start on how to cut this.
For this, i have come up with something very easy and its even only less sewing so don't worry :)

NOW, place your phone on the corner of your material's opposite side (that is the wrong side)

Now role the phone just once like the below picture without puling, keep the material loose, do not stretch! If you stretch when you are sewing, your case will look smaller and it will mess things up. As you see from the top and the bottom side of the phone, that is the two other side we didn't concern on the material... have loads of space. We will look at that later ;)

Next, Keep your finger for atleast one inch of it to the corner of the material. That would be the side where the opening isn't there, the closed side. Relate the image with the before image. Push the phone a little further down so its got spare for your finger's one inch to be landed properly.

Then cut it. As you see after i cut, i moved the phone back to where it was in the material before moving it forward for the one inch space. My one inch space looked like this, means it actually had worked of getting extra space. Now this space is for the sewing. But wait! we arn't sewing yet! ;)

2) I told you in the first step how to cut the material you want, then you end up with this,

Now simply bend the material you got, and cut it half properly. You will get this,

3) Now we have to sew the top part of the cloth pieces. Remember is till didn't figure out the length for the cover alright so don't cut it. Now bend one inch perhaps inside and sew it with your needle and matching thread or the sewing machine. I did mine with a running stitch with a brown thread-,- the second image shows the sewing.

Make sure you bend to the wrong side of the cloth piece, 'coz then it won't look ugly from the other side.

I told you i did mine with the brown thread, 'coz i didn't have black or a dark green and that's where i made the mistake. The color of it showed-,- See? So that's where the lace came in, in the last step! :P
I wasn't dumb, I knew the color would show, but i thought i can't be bothered to go buy-,-

4) Well next sewing step and the last sewing step ;D

Listen carefully, or when your turning the cloth, it'll be wrong.

Keep one of the pieces you sew on the right side facing you on a flat surface.

Then keep the other piece facing the right side on the first piece you kept, so the wrong side of this piece stays facing you.

Hope you got it, I'll show it to you in an image.

This is the first step.

This is the second step. If you look at it clearly, you'd see that i've kept the top one in the below image on top of the above image i presented to you.

Now sew them together from one side first with a running stitch. If you're sewing from the needle and thread, please sew properly 'coz this part could fall off.

And then Sew the other side the same by marking the phone length on the material. Do it right. If you do it wrong, its hard to turn back and remove the thread specially if you're sewing from the sewing machine. But there are ways to remove easily ;) Comment if you have a problem!

Sadly i don't have images of this part description i gave your'll. I was pretty pissed with mine, because first of all it got messed up -,- Then well i figured out a way to do it! :D but by then i was decorating it..sorry! but if you have any problems! feel free to ask by commenting or E-mail! ;)

5)Turn the cover you sew around to see whether you got it right. If you did, turn it back and now put the phone inside what you sew and go all the way to the top and length the height you want to keep it for.

Sew that part from he bottom to cover the bottom part. The cover will look tiny and small, but don't worry once you keep sliding the phone in, it will look absoloutly fine :)

Once you've sewn the bottom depending on the height you want.. then turn it the other way around. Its not hard to turn it, just simply use both hands and push the bottom part inside from your other fingers till it comes out from the top. Then you've a proper beautiful cover from the right side!

6) Decorate! You're practically done with the cover. If you're satisfied with the results you got and you think you don't need to decorate, then skip this step, you're over, you can use it now!

Otherwise, decorate the cover as you please..using stones? laces? other cloth materials to cut and paste a heart, rainbow..etc..Be Creative! :) REMEMBER, title says Ipod Cover-,-

Skip to the 7th step if you want to know how to decorate this as an Ipod cover.

I ofcorse told i sew the top part wrong halfway and also mine was bit messed up by the color i sewed it with-,- So i used a white lace, which looked very chrismasy with the shiny material i used... i sew half of the lace to the inside of the top and the other part to the outside making it look like this,

7) I'm showing this to you in a different step, otherwise 'coz it'l be messed up. There's nothing much i did in this to make it look like an Ipod. All i did was,

- cut a perfect circle and a rectangle from a white material.

- then took a permenant marker and outlined around the circle and rectangle.

- Took the needle and red thread and sew the word " MENU " in capital letters on the top of the circle.

- Cut tiny pieces of controls.. that is ' play&pause ' , ' Previous ' , and ' forward ' controls, and i cut a smal tiny circle for stop button.

- then i glued it with a good pasting glue onto one side of the cover making it look like this,

you can even sew the name of your songs or paste a heart on the rectangle (which is the screen without making it look blank)