Laundry accidents and electronic gadgets

I seem quite good at accidentally bundling woollen garments up with the ordinary laundry, putting them through a far-too-hot spin cycle and pulling them out as shrunken bits of felt. I then feel too guilty to throw them away and so they sit in a box in the craft room waiting for me to find the time and the inspiration to turn them into something.

Yesterday, I finally had some time on my hands, thanks to this month's Craft Club, and so I dipped my hands into the pools of inspiration.

An old wool walking sock seemed to lend itself to a pouch of some description and, since I am sick of rooting through the desk draw trying to match the cable to my laptop's external hard drive, I decided the match up the two (putting an all new meaning to pairing socks?)

I chopped off the foot, sewed up the newly cut seam, sewed a loop from scrap of ribbon to the top opening and added a button from the button tin.

One computer hard drive and cable safely stored.

Next, I turned my attention to the Sat Nav - also something that needs a protective case for when it gets shoved in my handbag or rucksack when out and about. For this I selected an old beanie hat.

I cut up the side seam and removed the oval shape that made up the top of the hat.  This gave me a rectangle of flat fabric. To protect the short edges, which would take a bit of a battering each time the Sat Nav was pulled in and out of the pouch, I bound them with some bias binding that I had left over from a previous project.

This done, I folded one end up to form a pouch large enough to fit the Sat Nav and the other end was folded down and inside the pouch to form a short closure flap, about half the height of the pouch. After sewing the two side seams, I inverted the pouch so that the seams were on the inside, and the folded the closure flap securely over the opening.

The finished pouch

Sat Nav safely stowed...

...and closed

It was all so simple that I'm feeling inspired to do something with the remaining pile of jumpers. Although, that may just have to wait for another weekend. For now, the sun is out and the front garden needs weeding!