Stuff Holder :)

Many of my projects are inspired by things I see on pinterest. This is definitely the case for this one. Someone had pinned a pattern for this project. I am not sure how it would work because I am assuming that people have different sized coffee cans which you need one for this but who knows. I was cheap and did not buy the pattern.

I am not an expert seamstress but my grandmother gave me her old machine and I really wanted to sew something. I had some problems with the machine but it took me like two afternoons to finish this and I now want to make a dozen of them.

Roughly my directions are as follows:

1) Get supplies. Pick two complementary colors of fabric, Scissors, something to measure fabric with, a flimsy tape measure to measure can, find a coffee can (or other similar size), add felt or batting of some kind if you are really trying to be pro.

2) Measure the height and circumference of your can.

3) With fabric A make two rectanges with your can measurements (allow for seams). Make sure one of them is actually a bit taller than the can. (I also made one in felt to "line" my can so it wouldn't be as noisy).

4) With fabric A you also need a circle just barely bigger than your can's lid.

5) With fabric B you need a big ole piece. Mind was roughly twice the height of can and double the circumference.

6) Start pinning and sewing. The hardest part is the pockets and the rest is just simple sewing. I used a lot of pins and had to redo one seam it was so bad. Depend of the length of your B fabric and size of your can determines how many pocked you get in the end. I sewed lines going up and down between where the pockets met leaving fabric poofing up. Then tacked it down along the bottom only you get that pocket dimension.

7) B needs to be sewn into a log and pressed. Then folded in half (hot dog style?) and pressed. Then pin the number of double pockets that make sense for your can and fabric length.

8) Keep seams allowances I had a very tight seam getting it all to acutally fit on my can I would not recommend this. Your stuff will eventually hold everything in place you don't need it to be super tight on the can.

9) Finish the can by sewing cord or heavy thread to gather and "close" on the bottom.

Sorry I didn't take more pictures or be more helpful but hey you can always buy the pattern online;)

Notes: My pictures aren't awesome but you get the gist. You can kinda see that you end up with double pockets.If I was going to do this again I would line the inside of the can better. It makes a sort of plink when you put stuff in otherwise you might not know it was originally a coffee can:)