How to Make a Knitting Bag for Knitting Needles
- 1). Cut two strips of the fabric 3 1/2 inches wide by 17 inches long for the back and the back lining of the knitting needle bag. Cut two strips of the fabric 3 1/2 inches wide by 10 inches long for the front and front lining of the knitting needle bag.
- 2). Place the two front pieces together with the right sides facing each other, and pin one short end. Sew the short end using a quarter-inch seam allowance. Turn the front pieces right side out and iron the seamed edge.
- 3). Lay one back piece on your work surface with the right side up. Place the stitched front pieces on the back piece, matching the raw short end to one short end of the back piece. Place the other back piece on top, with the wrong side up and matching the edges. Pin all four edges together.
- 4). Sew the two long edges and the short edge with the front pieces sandwiched in between, using a quarter-inch seam allowance. Leave the opposite short edge open. Turn the knitting needle bag right side out through the top opening and iron. The shorter front pieces of the bag create a pocket.
- 5). Fold the length of the knitting needle bag in half, with the pocket inside, and match the long edges. Iron the fold. Open the folded bag to reveal the crease. Using the crease as a guide, top stitch from the top of the pocket to the bottom, back stitching on each end to secure the stitches. This creates two narrow pockets. Iron the bag flat to remove the crease.
- 6). Fold the raw edges of the short open end of the bag, a quarter-inch inside the bag. Iron the folded edge. Cut a six-inch length of quarter-inch-wide ribbon. Insert a half inch of one end of the ribbon, centered in between the folded edge. Pin and top stitch as close to the pinned edge as possible. This is the flap closure on the knitting needle bag.
- 7). Place a 5/8-inch flat button, four inches below the top of the front pocket, on the center top stitched line. Hand sew to secure. Insert your knitting needles in the bag pockets. Fold the flap over the top of the needles, and wind the ribbon around the button to secure.
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