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EASY CROCHET MOBILE PHONE CASE
This is a great project to get you off the ground in the crochet world, and it's actually something you can use! Even better. This easy crochet mobile phone case took me (a beginner of just 3 weeks old in crochet life) 2 hours to make, from crocheting the case to stitching it together and attaching the button and loop. Give it a try!
What you will need:-
Double knit yarn of your choice (less than 50g)
Number 4 crochet hook
A wool needle (Big head, blunt end)
Nice button
Scissors
Your phone :)
Skills you will learn and use:-
Slip knot
Foundation chain stitch
Double Crochet
Finishing off ends
Sewing seams
Sewing on button
Here we go.....
STARTING OFF
1. Make a slip knot
2. Make your foundation chain the width of your phone (or tablet). Mine was 13 chain stitches wide.
DOUBLE CROCHET
3. Make an extra chain, then begin your double crochet (dc) starting in the 2nd chain.
4. Keep on merrily along doing your double crochet rows, remember to keep your tension consistent and make sure you don't skip any stitches! Count every now and then the double crochets on your row to ensure that it's the same number that you started off with :)
5. Have your phone at hand, and when you've crochet a good length, lay your phone on it and wrap with one end to the top of the phone.
6. Now's your chance to see if you need to make more rows, or unravel a few (which I ended up doing before I took this photo!! I was about 5 rows over what I wanted it to be..). Make sure you have enough length to create a nice fold/flap. This can be as long or as short as you want, or you could omit the flap all together.
11. Take your wool needle (big headed with a blunt end) and begin to 'fasten off'' by weaving the needle with the tail through the row of stitches, about 1 inch in length
12. Now do the same but going in the opposite direction and through the next row of stitches.
13. Give the tail a tug then snip of the end.
14. After stretching out your crochet work the end should disappear under your stitches.
15. Your crochet 'fabric' is now ready to be sewn up and buttoned. Reach for your phone again and see the position of the lengths to be sewn to make a cosy pouch. This method is really easy as you simple sew the two long sides leaving the top open, and you can sew on the outside, rather than turning it inside out. Sewing from the outside means that you wont have a bulky seam on the inside of your mobile case.
16. Simply hold the front and back together and work your way from the top (open end) to the bottom, weaving the yarn through the stitches in a close zig zag fashion. No fancy stitch work here, just neat and secure. Try and match the end of the rows together :)
17. When you reach the bottom you need to 'finish off' your tail end as steps 11 to 14 show.
18. You should have a seam that looks something like this, I gave mine a little massage just to pull the stitches together.
19. Put your phone in it's sewn up case to make sure all is well.
20. Fold over the flap and see where you want your button to go
21. Take the phone out and going through the inside with your needle (I had to switch to one with a smaller head) make a few stitches to secure your button.
28. Put the tailed end of the loop where you want it to go on the flap, then push your hook through one of the holes from behind the flap through to the front.
29. Catch both tails from the loop with the hook
30. Pull the tails through to the back of the flap.
MAKING THE 'FABRIC'
4. Keep on merrily along doing your double crochet rows, remember to keep your tension consistent and make sure you don't skip any stitches! Count every now and then the double crochets on your row to ensure that it's the same number that you started off with :)
5. Have your phone at hand, and when you've crochet a good length, lay your phone on it and wrap with one end to the top of the phone.
6. Now's your chance to see if you need to make more rows, or unravel a few (which I ended up doing before I took this photo!! I was about 5 rows over what I wanted it to be..). Make sure you have enough length to create a nice fold/flap. This can be as long or as short as you want, or you could omit the flap all together.
'FINISHING OFF' YOUR ROW
7. After adding or removing any rows, come to the end of your last row and get ready to fasten off...
8. Bring the yarn round the hook
9. Bring it through to make a chain
10. Cut the yarn to make a 3 inch tail, then the tail through that chain you just made, and give it a little tug to close the last chain.
11. Take your wool needle (big headed with a blunt end) and begin to 'fasten off'' by weaving the needle with the tail through the row of stitches, about 1 inch in length
12. Now do the same but going in the opposite direction and through the next row of stitches.
13. Give the tail a tug then snip of the end.
14. After stretching out your crochet work the end should disappear under your stitches.
SEWING UP
15. Your crochet 'fabric' is now ready to be sewn up and buttoned. Reach for your phone again and see the position of the lengths to be sewn to make a cosy pouch. This method is really easy as you simple sew the two long sides leaving the top open, and you can sew on the outside, rather than turning it inside out. Sewing from the outside means that you wont have a bulky seam on the inside of your mobile case.
16. Simply hold the front and back together and work your way from the top (open end) to the bottom, weaving the yarn through the stitches in a close zig zag fashion. No fancy stitch work here, just neat and secure. Try and match the end of the rows together :)
17. When you reach the bottom you need to 'finish off' your tail end as steps 11 to 14 show.
18. You should have a seam that looks something like this, I gave mine a little massage just to pull the stitches together.
BUTTON UP!!
20. Fold over the flap and see where you want your button to go
21. Take the phone out and going through the inside with your needle (I had to switch to one with a smaller head) make a few stitches to secure your button.
22. Time to make your button loop. Make a slip knot and foundation chain of around 15-20 chains,. Test it on your case to see how long it will be to be to go round your button, and where you want it on your flap. Mine was 18 chains long.
23. Do one row of double crochet.
24. Make a chain at the end of the row, cut the yarn to make a tail of around 4 inches.
25. See how it look....
26. Pull the recently cut tail through the last chain.
27. Tug it to close the chain at the end of the row.
ATTACHING THE LOOP
29. Catch both tails from the loop with the hook
30. Pull the tails through to the back of the flap.
31. Now push your hook from front to back through a hole slightly to the right from the first incision, and catch the tails with the hook.
32. Bring tails through. ** Repeat steps 29 and 30 again but through another hole**
33. IGNORE PICTURE..... (sorry, these random photo bombs may happen from time to time...)
34. Push the hook from the front through the original hole that secured the loop, and catch the tails at the back and bring just a chain's worth through the hole.
35. Bring the other end of the loop up to the hook and push the hook through the end chain of the loop.
36. Pull the hoop through the short 'tail' chain. You may need to keep some pressure on the back of the flap to hold the tails from being pulled through.
37. Insert the hook again, this time slightly above the original hole.
38. Bring just a chain's worth of tail through again
39, Pull that through the loop on the hook, nice and tight. Pull the tails through now, the button loop should be secure. If it feels a little loose then simply make a few more stitches with the tails.
40. This is what it should now look like
41. Take your wool needle and sew/weave the tail ends through one of the rows, then back again towards the button, then cut off the end.
42. Tada!!
41. Take your wool needle and sew/weave the tail ends through one of the rows, then back again towards the button, then cut off the end.
42. Tada!!
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