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Watch Sleeve Tutorial

I can't even remember when I last posted a tutorial here, so it's about time, don't you think?!

A few years ago we got Miss Kiki a Baby-G Casio watch as a school year-end present. She wore it diligently for a month or so and then she started complaining that it made her sweat and it started smelling and losing colour. After that she stopped wearing it for about a year. Yeah... we've all been there...




A few months ago, I thought of making a fabric sleeve for the watch. First of all, if it's a nice cotton fabric it won't make her skin sweat. If she goes out to the playground and runs around and sweat anyway, it would be absorbed by the fabric and it won't stick or smell. The sleeve could be easily removed and washed regularly. 

I didn't find any tutorials that I liked for this project so I decided to make my own... ;)

I started with tracing the watch on a piece of paper and drawing the sleeve design on it.


After that, I drew the pieces that I wanted and gave it seam allowances, and then I cut the papers. In the picture was my first design. For the second one, I made #4 a little longer for better fit. #1 and #2 are the same measurements.


Now lets get started with the making...

1. Cut the fabrics:
  • 2 pcs of #3
  • 2 pcs of #4
  • 4 pcs of #2 (or #1)

Sorry I forgot to take a picture of all the fabric pieces, but you should now have 8 pieces of fabric.

2. Take #1 or #2 fabrics (the ones you have 4 pieces of), put two of them right sides together, and then sew on the 2 short sides and 1 long side like the green lines in the picture below. Clip the stitched corners.


At this point I remembered to take a picture, so here are the pieces I had, with the two pieces at the bottom already sewn (originally 4 pieces). Don't do what I did, y'all. Iron your pieces before you sew!


3. Take the #4 pieces (the shortest ones). With right sides together sew 2 parallel lines along the short sides as shown in green in the picture below.


4. Turn your 3 sets of sewn fabrics over and press (iron it).


The three sets after turning.
The three sets after pressing

5. Take your remaining pieces of fabric. With right sides together, sew the short sides with 2 parallel lines as shown in green in the picture below.


6. Wait! Don't turn the set you've just sewn yet. Take the set from #4 and sandwich it between the layers, pushing it up against the stitches at one of the ends of #3, aligning the raw edges. Pin in place.

7. Take the remaining sets, sandwich it between the layers, pushing it up against the other end of #3, aligning the raw edges of each set with the raw edges of #3 on opposite sides. The pieces will overlap in the middle.

8. Sew around the edges leaving an opening in the middle for turning later. See the picture below. Clip your corners.



9. Turn it over and press. 

10. Top stitch as marked in green in the picture below. This should close the turning hole.


11. Attach velcro on the flaps in a way that it would 'hug' the watch strap when closed.

And you are done! Yay!

The pink one in the picture below was made with the original measurements. The blue one has a longer #4 pieces.









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