Earbud Pouch

What do you do when you don't have/take the time to whip up some Christmas gifts for, well, Christmas?  You decide since you have time after Christmas (that and Six-Foot Chick had my car all day one day last week), make them, then.  I made these for my girls and Strapping Lad's girlfriend. 

Awhile ago, I saw this idea and Pinned it.  It's from Erin's Dog Under My Desk blog.  She has a download-able pdf and a step-by-step tutorial that was a breeze to follow. 

Erin used really cute, spunky fabric.  I used what I had around (not exactly teenager-appealing, but not too bad), which included:

• Scraps of my home dec fabric (except for the red print) which was probably not as "friendly" as, say, quilting fabric, since it is stiffer; 
• Batting (again, could have been thinner), I also gave felt a try instead of batting, but that wasn't pliable enough; 
• for the Lining, I used plain muslin; 
• Zippers were what I could find lurking around which were two of both black and brown and one used off-white.  The zippers drove what fabrics I chose.  (Some of my top stitching turned out wonky from the weight of the fabric and some bulk from resewing and not the best trimming--trust me, I'm not losing sleep over it!)

One funny thing that happened, well it wasn't at the time, was I made oval pouches at first.  How did that happen?  Welllll, my laptop doesn't send to our house printer, so I pulled up the pdf in Adobe at 100% and traced it.  The tracing was oval-ish, which I knew in the beginning.  I kept going.  It didn't even click till after I finished the third pouch that I didn't want oval!  I turned them back inside out and restitched the oval to a circle (which is why the tabs that the split ring is attached to are shorter than Erin's).  I guess I was so excited that I was making darling little earbud pouches, it took awhile to dawn on me that they looked more like eggs than dots!  And, oh yeah, total cost:  About $3 for the split rings.

I think these are as cute as all get-out and would make them again as gifts.  Erin also has a cell phone sleeve tutorial that I'm eying...

Remember this cute cupcake apron I made for Fun-Sized Chick?  She was delighted with it, as in running around the house with glee, delighted.  Those are the kind of reactions one lives for!