How to Make a Cross Stitch Felt Needle Case

One essential tool for every embroidery lover is a needle case to keep their needles safe and organized. In this DIY guide, I’ll walk you through the steps to create your very own cross stitch felt needle case.

Materials Needed:

Felt fabric (two colours)
Embroidery floss
cotton thread
Needle
Scissors
pinking shears
Ruler
pencil

Step 1: Design Your Needle Case
Your starting point should be the motif you’d like to have on the front of your Needle case. I chose my kawaii cat chocolate which is a 3 inch design. You don’t really want to use anything large than this at the decorative motif.

If you haven’t got one in mind, why not browse my collection of 3 inch (and smaller) patterns here.

Step 2: Cut Out the Felt Pieces
One you know how big you motif is you can work out how big to make your felt. If like me you are using a 3 inch design. Then you can cut your felt to these dimensions: Height width.

Using your ruler and pencil, carefully mark out the felt pieces according to your dimensions. You’ll need one piece for the cover and one for the pages. Don’t worry that the pages are the same size as the cover they will be trimmed down.

Step 3: Trim the pages
Using the pinking shears take the edge off the page piece of felt, so that it has a decorative edge and is slightly smaller than the cover.

Step 4: Attach the page
Take the smaller felt piece you trimmed and arrange it on the cover felt piece. Stitch with a running stitch down the centre line to hold the two sheets together. Use embroidery floss and a hand sewing needle.

Step 5: Add the motif
You should trim the motif down leaving around 7 squares boarder. Then fray two squares boarder on all edges. If you don’t like the frayed look you could alternatively iron interfacing to the back of your design and simple trim.

Then place on the front of your needle case, making sure the case is opened and you won’t stitch through the pages, stitch in place using backstitch, cotton thread and a hand sewing needle. One square inside the frayed boarder you just created.

Step 7: Finishing Touches (optional)
Your needle case is ready to use, but if you wanted to add some extra finishing touches you could add and button and loop to close it, or a popper.

You could also stitch onto the pages the sizes of the needles you plan to store in your case.