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iPod Disguise Cosy

Got iPod pride but want to keep your iPod safe amd warm while showing off it's still an iPod? Make it an iPod disguise cosy.

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/ipod-disguise-cosy • Posted by Cat Morley

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

1 h 00

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
Medium cosies 1281385764

Description

Instructions

  1. Small 1230

    Take your iPod or mp3 player and draw out a template on to a piece of paper. You want your template to be the length of your iPod twice, plus allowance for twice the thickness of your iPod and allowance for a flap. You will want it to be the width of your iPod plus allowance for twice the thickness.

  2. Small 1231

    Cut out your template and draw the shape out on to felt. Cut this felt shape out.

  3. Small 1232

    Place your iPod in the middle of the felt.

  4. Small 1233

    Fold up the bottom of the felt so that it covers most of the front of the iPod.

  5. Small 1234

    Pin the felt in to place. You will want this to be nice and tight.

  6. Small 1235

    Remove the iPod and tidy up the pins so that they are all straight.

  7. Small 1236

    Slip the iPod back in to make sure it fits snug. Be careful not to scratch it with the pins.

  8. Small 1237

    Slip the iPod out again and cut off any excess felt at the sides.

  9. Small 1238

    Sew up the sides of the cosy and remove the pins.

  10. Small 1239

    Snip the edges of the flap so that they are rounded and then turn the cosy inside out.

  11. Small 1240

    Cut out a rectangle (the size of your iPod's screen), a large circle (the size of the click wheel) and a smaller circle (the size of the click wheel button) out of white felt.

  12. Small 1241

    Stitch the rectangle, for the screen, and the large circle in place.

  13. Small 1242

    Stitch the smaller circle in to the middle of the larger one.

  14. Small 1243

    Stitch on a popper and you're all done.