Camera Strap Cover: Tutorial

Fitted Camera Strap Cover Tutorial

STEP ONE:

Fold your camera strap in half, lay it over your fabric so that the fold of your strap is ON THE FOLD of the fabric. I should have got a better picture of that.
Outline! I used a sharpie so you could see it a little better.

 STEP TWO:

From your outline, measure out half of an inch and draw that line. Cut around the second line you made. 

  STEP THREE:

Cut two more pieces: One about 1 1/2 inch longer than half of the strap cover and the second one 1/2 longer than half of the strap cover.

 STEP FOUR:

Fold the ends about 1/3 of an inch over and sew.  Do the same on BOTH ends of EVERY piece.

STEP FIVE:

Put your pieces right sides together so that the longer back piece is under the shorter one

STEP SIX:

Sew down each long side, and then turn it right side out! 

I put a safety pin in the end to make it easier to pull through :)

STEP SEVEN:

Put your strap in, put it back on your camera, and enjoy!!

Satin Binding Tutorial and DalaQuilt

I finished my Dala Horse quilt, and I'm SO excited about it! 

Not only is this the first quilt that I have ever made for myself, but it came out so nice, and I get to make you all a tutorial!!

This tutorial is for the satin binding that I used.
Most commonly, satin binding is seen on childrens fleece or flannel blankets.

I think I am surely not the only one who like the feel of satin binding, but not necessarily the width of it.
I had trouble finding a tutorial on doing this, so I figured it out myself!


As with any other binding, you start by pinning, but you'll pin it to the front instead of the back, and keep it folded!

What I don't like about most satin binding and tutorials, is that the binding is opened and just put over the edge. On an adult size quilt, that's not really an adult look.

Then, you zigzag stitch around the edge.

On my first corner I made the mistake of pinning it folded and sewing it all the way around.

DON'T DO THAT!

Sew one side to about a cm away from the corner, fold to miter, and do the same to the adjacent side. 

You will have a little flappy piece that seems wrong, but it's not.

When you have sewn on each side, you can begin turning your binding. Don't pull on it too hard, because you don't want to tear the satin or expose any stitching anywhere. 

Fold it over and pin from the FRONT side. Keep looking from front to back to make sure it will catch.

I was a dummy, and pinned on the back the first time, which meant stopping and starting more than I needed to.

I line up the inside edge of my walking foot, to the edge of the binding, and begin to sew.

I did this one side at a time to avoid poking myself a million times with my pins.

Sew sew sew.

And here you can see how lovely it looks.

Nice and even, no spots where it doesn't catch, and finished, it doesn't have that childish wide binding!

Thanks for the visit!