How to Cut Out the Pattern for a Cell Phone Case

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Shelly Cordsen with expertvillage.com. Now we're going to use the same concept that we used for the luggage tag and make a cell phone holder. As you can see, they're very similar. Put your cell phone in, hook it to you. What's nice about these is you can kind of pinch the bottom and your cell phone just kind of pops right up and then you grab it. To start this off, I just took a piece of fabric I just cut off of a yardage; not very wide. Fold it in half, fold it in half again. The difference between this and the luggage tag is we need 2 strips. 2 strips of fabric, 3 1/2 x 11. So I'm using my ruler going to 3 1/2. I'm going to use my ruler, find the 3 1/2 mark, put along the straight edge of here. I don't use the measurements on the board real often unless it's longer than my ruler. Take my rotary cutter, cut my strip. Now, the length of the handle is dependent on what your preference is. I've tried 14, I've tried 13, I'm down to about a 10 because you really don't want it hanging off your hip very far. So the shorter you can handle, the better. Now we turn this the other way. We need to turn this into 11. Now I'm going to use my board, line it up on the line of the board, get a straight edge over here, put it up to the edge, find my mark for 11. I have it backwards. There's my 11. Come over here on my mark for 0. There's my 2 pieces. The handle; I only need one. I'm going to make mine about 10, and there we go. "