Phone case with hands of leather

The fact that a cover for mobile is necessary, does not cause any doubts. The phone, especially the screen, is constantly subjected to mechanical influences: in the bag it rubs against keys, coins and other items, we put it on various surfaces where there can be not only dirt, but moisture. With the case the phone is more protected from harmful influences. To protect the mobile there are a lot of necessary devices - panels, cases, silicone pads and bumpers. But this all is not worth a penny. Therefore, you can try to sew the phone case with your own hands made of leather, felt, foamiran or any dense fabric. Sewing skills will fit even minimal. Sewing the case for the phone yourself - not such a big problem. Necessary materials and tools will be found in almost any home. It will take only a little effort and a little bit of fantasy.

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What types of cases can I sew myself?

• The easiest to make is a pocket-pocket. It can be simply sewed from two rectangles, and you can slightly complicate the task - to make a pocket with a tongue of ribbon, which facilitates the process of removing the mobile from such a cover.
• Slightly more sophisticated in performance will be a cover-envelope on the button. It is more suitable for the female, so it can be made from any color material.
• The book cover is the most practical kind, but you will have to work hard to make it, although all the actions are quite understandable.

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How to make a cover on your smartphone yourself? Required Tools

In order to sew the phone case from the skin with your own hands, you will need the following materials and tools:

• A flap of leather about 3 mm thick or some other material from which you plan to sew a cover. The main thing is that he keep his form.
• An awl and screwdriver for making smooth holes.

Important! These items are useful if you work with the skin.

• Cardboard, ruler, pencil or chalk for cutting out parts.
• Stationery knife, scissors.
• Strong thread in the tone of the material for the cover.

Important! You can use a thin strip of leather or decorative cord.

• Clasps, a button or a magnet, if it is a cover or an envelope.
• Braid if it is a pocket-pouch with a tongue.
• Adhesive gun or glue "Moment".
• A hammer with an anvil or a special tool for installing eyelets and buttons( if necessary).

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Where to start?

To ensure that the phone case with your own hands is made of leather or other selected material, it is neat and suitable in all respects:

1. First, measure the length, width and thickness of the phone.
2. For the convenience of subsequent builds and examples it is advisable to make a layout of your mobile from cardboard, so as not to jerk the gadget once again. To do this, circle the phone on the cardboard and cut it out.
3. In order to recreate the desired thickness, cut out several such patterns and glue one another until the desired thickness is obtained.
4. If you have the skills, the right tool and the desire - you can make such a layout from plywood.

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Pocket pocket

If you want to try to sew a leather case for your phone with your own hands, the patterns are the easiest for a pocket-pouch model. It is recommended to begin his work with a beginner in this field.

• Sewing such a product does not take much time and does not require special skills in cutting and sewing.
• To keep it in shape and have a presentable appearance, it is best to make a leather cover.
• For a girl, you can take a skin of any color, even pink, though green, and the guys are more likely to prefer black or brown.
• The material itself must be of good quality and have a thickness of at least 3 mm.

Important! Skin patches are sold in the market, in sewing shops, and you can use an old leather bag or make-up bag.

Pattern

A simple pocket pouch can be tailored in many ways.

Method # 1:

1. Cut out two rectangles of the desired size from the skin. To do this, put a mobile template on the flap and circle it with chalk or pencil.
2. Now with two long sides of the rectangle and one short one, make an allowance of 1.5 cm( by the thickness plus the seam).

Important! It is better to take a little more, if in doubt, than back-to-back. You can always trim it off.

1. On the fourth narrow side, allowance is not needed, since this edge will not be stitched, and it must coincide in level with the edge of the phone.

Method number 2

If the size of the skin flap allows, you can cut one long rectangle, the width of which will be equal to the width of the mobile, plus allowances for seams. And the length is equal to the double length of the phone plus a centimeter to its thickness.

Important! The first option is best to choose when the gadget has smooth shapes and in the case you need to round the edges, the second - when the phone has clear angles.

Assembling

After you have found out the details of the future cover - let's start assembling. This stage requires pedantry.

Important! If each stitch is not clear and identical with the rest - the thing will look sloppy.

Sew the halves of the product from the skin with a simple needle and thread will be problematic. To do this, you must first make holes.

Procedure:

1. Use a chalk( pencil) and ruler to draw smooth lines where there should be a seam. Secure with pins and try to insert the phone. He must enter tightly, but not tight.
2. Shilom make holes at a distance of 3-5 mm from each other.

Important! If you sew with a thread( use nylon or just thick ones), do less distance, and if a strip of skin or a thin cord( kapron or leather), then more.

1. Use a screwdriver to handle these holes so that they are even, without jaggies.
2. If you connect two rectangles, then start sewing from the bottom corner with a suture seam. First you connect the two halves, and from the top go only one, just sweep the edge. When they have reached the end - again connect the two parts, until you reach the place where you started the seam.
3. The upper edge of the second half should be treated separately with a wrapping seam.
4. Fasten the ends of the stitch, put it inside.
5. If you fold one long rectangle in half - your actions are the same, except that you do not need to sweep the bottom of the product.

Important! In order for the phone's skin case to get the right shape, some experts recommend that you insert a layout that repeats the shape of your gadget inside the cover and put it all in cold water for 2 hours. Then pull and dry together with the "phone" inside. Drying can take 1-2 days.

With this technology, you can sew the phone case with your own hands from any other dense material that will keep the shape: felt, drape, denim, foiraman and so on.

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Pocket pocket with a tongue

How to make a phone case made of leather to conveniently get it? This option is not much different in appearance from a simple cover-pocket, except for one detail - inside is a tongue from the ribbon, which makes it easier to remove the phone from the cover.

Pattern:

1. From the skin flap, cut out a rectangle, the width of which is equal to the width of the phone plus the margin by the centimeter from each edge to the seams.

Important! The length of this workpiece should correspond to two lengths of mobile plus add 1 cm to the thickness of the gadget.

1. Now cut out one more same rectangle. Between them and our tongue will be laid. That is, one part will be the outside, and the second - the inner one.

Important! If the skin flap was small, and you only had one piece of it, do not despair. The inner part is a lining, it is quite possible to make of any dense but soft fabric that is in the household, from felt, for example.

1. We do not touch the first external side, but on the second small one or with a pencil we mark the places where we will make cuts into which the tongue from the braid will pass.
2. First, center the strip about 1 cm - it depends on the thickness of the mobile. Then from it in one direction measure out 5 cm and make a longitudinal incision on the width of your braid.
3. The second side, too, measure out 5 cm and make an incision. From it, put 3 cm up, again make an incision for the braid.
4. To the edge of the tongue, which will hang out from the outside, looked presentable, you need to make a leather cover for it. To do this, from the remains of the skin, cut 2 small squares, the side of which will be equal to the width of the braid plus 3 mm on the seam( superfluous then cut).
5. If necessary, you can make additional holes for the charging plug or headphones.

Assembly:

1. Before sewing the cover, you must lay the braid. To do this, braid the edges of the brazier so that they do not become disheveled.
2. Then thread it through the lining. Start with the half where the two incisions are: first pass the braid inside through the first incision, and through the second - take it out.
3. Then it crosses the center and again passes through the third notch.
4. Pull it a couple of centimeters, fix it with a glue gun( glue for the skin).
5. Now bend the pattern in half and, leaving a tail of 2 cm outside the cover, trim the excess.
6. On this ponytail, put squares from the skin that you have prepared, sew them to the braid, laying a line around the perimeter.
7. Now fasten the inside( lining) to the outside. This can also be done with a glue gun( you can glue "Moment").

Important! When you glue two pieces, first glue the first part to half, then bend the workpiece in half, and now glue the second part. So you prevent the appearance of wrinkles. In addition, do not glue the part where the braid is, it needs to move freely.

1. When you have connected the outer side and the lining, and it's all dried up, make it with an awl and then screw it on the edge of the cover.
2. Now, using a thread with a needle or decorative cord and a pin, sew the edges with a suture seam.

Important! Do not forget to try the cover on the phone while stitching, so that you do not have to rip it off later.

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Cover Case

This is a fairly practical and convenient cover. Sewing the phone case with your own hands of this kind is a little more complicated. In addition to leather and a standard set of tools, you will need 2 magnets.

Pattern:

1. A large rectangle must be cut from a piece of leather. Its length will be equal to the length of the phone plus a stock of 0.5 cm per edging, and the width is twice the width of the gadget plus its thickness.
2. Even for the magnetic fastener you need a strip of leather 3-4 cm long and 1.5-2 cm wide( depends on the dimensions of the mobile).
3. If you want, then you can make a lining for a cover from the second piece of leather or felt. This should be a cut of the same size and shape as the outer part. Then to fix the mobile in the case you need skin strips, which are attached to the corners.

Assembly:

1. If you decide to make a cover with a lining, first glue it with an adhesive gun.
2. Across the corners on the lower half of the cover, sew narrow strips of skin, retreating 2 cm from the edge. They for the corners will fix your mobile in the case.

Important! Glue the lining in parts: first one, then bend the cover in half and glue the second one so that there are no wrinkles on the surface.

1. Now make an awl around the perimeter of the hole, treat the edges with a suture seam.

Important! A thread or cord can be in the tone of the skin, or - conversely, contrasting.

1. If you decide to do without a lining, then the phone can be fixed on the cover with a double-sided tape. Lock securely so that it does not fall out.
2. It remains to attach the clasp. To do this, sew it from the inside to the bottom of the cover.
3. Now glue the magnet to the end of the fastener( 1 cm from the edge).
4. Put the gadget or its three-dimensional layout into a cover, fix it with pharmacies to fix it.
5. Now put on the clasp, mark the place for the second magnet and glue it.

Everything's ready.

Important! From the same pattern, you can make a cover with a zipper. To do this, unzip the zipper and fasten it around the perimeter with a glue gun, rounding in the corners. Zip up the zipper and hide its ends inside the cover. After that, it is worth sticking the lining so that the inside looks more aesthetically pleasing.

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Cover-envelope

To make a cover for your phone with your own hands from the skin in the form of an envelope is also easy. The only difficulty of this process is to make a button-fastener. The rest is implemented in much the same way as in the models described above.

Pattern:

1. On a piece of leather with a thickness of at least 3 mm, detail the future cover. The width is equal to the length of the phone, and the length is equal to the triple width of the mobile( front and back wall of the boot and valve), plus take into account the thickness of the gadget and the allowances for seams.
2. One side of the narrow part remains flat, and the second side cuts the corners so that the cover is shaped like an envelope.

Assembly:

1. If the length of this workpiece is divided into three parts, the first two of them will be rectangular, and the third - a triangle. Fold the first two parts in half, secure with clips so that they do not move.
2. Make holes with an awl, then sew the side of the "envelope" with the suture seam.
3. Now treat the edges of the triangular valve with the same seam.
4. It remains only to put the button. To do this, use a special tool or a hammer with an anvil.

Important! If the phone is small, then insert a half of the button on the rectangular part of the cover to stitch the two halves, otherwise - then it will be inconvenient to install it.

Cover-envelope is usually preferred to wear girls, so it can be made from bright scraps of skin, and then - decorate with something.

Knowing how to sew a phone case from the skin with your own hands, you easily embody your idea into reality and make an original cover for your gadget. Thus, you will protect it from mechanical damage and keep the beautiful appearance of the smartphone for a long time.