If you’re anything like me, your needles and pins tend to wander which is really terrible when they wander somewhere your feet tend to go too *_* I have a pin cushion but I don’t like keeping needles in there so I set about making myself a little needle case.

This is what I ended up with:

Needle Box Tutorial

What I used:

  • Plastic case that some nail supplies came in. You could either make something similar out of felt or find something along these lines.
  • Pretty paper or paint
  • Pen, scissors
  • Felt
  • Needle and thread
  • Glue gun
  • Decorations eg. rhinestones.

Needle Box Tutorial

First thing, trace around the outside of your container onto the pretty paper and cut out 2 of that shape.

Needle Box Tutorial

You should have something like this:

Needle Box Tutorial

Fit them into the inside of the container. They should be very snug so they don’t fall out.

Needle Box Tutorial

Alternatively you could paint the container, here’s one I did another time to hold my letter writing stuff:

Needle Box Tutorial

Now cut out a bunch of felt pieces which also fit on the inside. I cut mine in both full length and sections:

Needle Box Tutorial

Then stitch them together down the side to form a booklet:

Needle Box Tutorial

And using the glue gun put a line of glue down the spine and glue it into the container.

Needle Box Tutorial

Like this:

Needle Box Tutorial

When you close it all it will look like this:

Needle Box Tutorial

I decided to add another strip of felt on the other side to hold my most used needles:

Needle Box Tutorial

Add your needles or pins!

Needle Box Tutorial

And decorate the front! I used some diamantes from my stash ^_^

Needle Box Tutorial

A cell phone charm to make it easy to carry and find and it’s all finished!

Needle Box Tutorial

Now there will be no more stepping on them or losing them and the case is pretty damn cute if I do say so myself XD What do you all think?