For my tutorial I like to think of it as a recipe instead of precise instructions. If you make a needle case based on my tute please email me. I’d love to see pictures. Some history of the project can be found at this post.

To make a needle case you’ll need a sheet of plastic canvas and some yarn. At the time I didn’t realize there were different sized plastic canvas. I did use some stash yarn that was thick so the squares would be well filled.

My old paper needle holder served as a guide to cutting out the plastic canvas. I cut two pieces instead of one figuring one larger piece wouldn’t close as easily.

Tieing the yarn on I prepared to weave.

Weaving the ends is pretty simple. The only trick is to make sure you weave in the same direction.

The edge consisted of weaving one square. For the middle rows I weaved into two squares.

The longer the yarn the less knots you’ll have to make. When joining a new piece I made the knot at the side.

The completed pieces. While weaving I noticed one side hid the plastic better. I’m not sure why but I suspect it has something to do with yarn tension.

I trimmed the knot tails and sewed them down with matching thread. I’ve circled those areas with yellow. The blue circle is a spot I had to tack down because the yarn got wonky.

I sewed the two pieces together with matching thread and illustrated that below with blue lines. In hindsight I see that I could have left one long edge bare on each piece and then weaved the two pieces together with yarn. But the thread works just as well.

I cut some fabric a little larger than the combined pieces.

Tucking the edges under as I went I handsewed the fabric down to the outer layer. I also sewed a line down the center where the two pieces meet thinking that would “guide” the case to close.

The ties were just a length of yarn knotted on each side. The tail was sewn under the fabric. I’d suggest putting in the ties before sewing down the fabric.

And voila! A completed needle case.