Phone pouch!

Hello all! I haven't been acting on my New Year's resolution at all...Sorry!

Let me make it up to you with my first actual awesome tutorial! Yay!!

Soooo. As mentioned in the title, I will teach you all how to make a pouch for your phone. It's really simple, you'll see. Here's what you will need:

-About a square foot of cotton
-The same amount of felt
-Matching thread
-Basic sewing supplies (scissors, needles, etc.)

First and foremost, measure out your phone. I am making this pouch for someone else, so I'll be using my ID instead.

Her phone was about 1 and 1/2 of my ID's height, and a little bit wider, so I am giving myself a big seam allowance. Also, you want the cotton part to be a little bit bigger, so don't be afraid to cut your pieces about an inch bigger than it needs to be.

Cut this piece x 2.

Afterwards, take one of those pieces and pin it to the fabric about an inch from the edge.

Then, cut a semi-circle. That will be the flap.

Ok. You've got your outside part. Now, pin one of the rectangular pieces to the felt and cut it. Then cut half an inch off of one side like so:

Cut 2 of those.

Afterwards, pin the semicircle onto the felt and make a smaller version of it!

Alright. Now, let's start sewing!

Take one piece of the cotton and one of the felt, pin them together RIGHT sides (aka the side that will be outside) facing each other and start sewing! I'm sewing mine by hand

Leave a significant strip of fabric on one of the short ends. You'll see why.

There we go! Ok, now fold over that little flap and slip stitch (sew into the folded bit) the piece shut!

Do both rectangles, and it will look like this:

Beautiful! Ok, now let's sew our flap on: Pin the cotton and felt together, again RIGHT sides facing each other!

Then let's sew it together (don't worry about the bottom part):

Let's pin those two rectangles together now!

Now sew them together. Please leave about an inch on either side! Then, pin the flap RIGHT sides together and sew like this:

Nearly done! You can either cut a hole for a button into the flap, or you can do what I did. So far, it should look like this:

Ok, what I did is this: I put a knot at the ends of 3 pieces of embroidery floss and sewed them into the flap, then I braided them like so:

Then  I sewed a little piece of fabric I folded in the shape of a marshmallow onto the pouch itself...

And tah-dah! Phone pouch!

The friend I made this for loved it! I tried it on a couple phones, including my tiny LG Rumour and my friend's big Blackberry, so if you keep to my method of using my student ID (any plastic card thing would do I presume), you should be able to fit pretty much any phone into it! Yay!

Let me know what you think :)