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Cable Cozy
Are you fed up off constantly untangling the cables from all your tech? make yourself a handy cable cozy that you can take anywhere.

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  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 1
    Step 1

    Start by cutting two pieces of each of your fabrics, I cut mine 23cm x15cm. Iron on interfacing to the fabric you want to use for your lining.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 2
    Step 2

    Then pop your zip in-between the two right-sides of your lining and outside fabric facing up towards the outside fabric.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 3
    Step 3

    Sew the zip in place. Fold both pieces back and repeat on the other side of the zip.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 4
    Step 4

    Fold the second lot of pieces back and run a line of top stitching to hold the fabrics away from the zip teeth when the pouch is in use.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 5
    Step 5

    Now undo the zip halfway. Once you have done that, take the two outer pieces and the two lining pieces and pin them together facing each other. Sew all the way around the outside and the lining leaving a small 7cm opening in the lining

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 6
    Step 6

    Turn the whole thing inside out and hand sew up the hole in the lining

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 7
    Step 7

    push the lining inside the pouch.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 8
    Step 8

    To make the cable tidy part of the cosy, cut two larger pieces of your fabrics 25cm x 45cm and iron on some interfacing to the lining fabric - again to give it a little more body.Then pin two rows of elastic along the longer length, mine were about 7cm apart. Sew the elastic at between 2-3cm spacing all the way down the length, varying the spacing as you go to fit larger and smaller cables, across both rows of elastic.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 9
    Step 9

    Then sew one side of your popper into place about a third of the way up and about 3cm in.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 10
    Step 10

    Take a small length of elastic and your belt clasp and loop the clasp onto the elastic then sandwich that at the top edge between your two fabrics right sides facing. I also added a layer of felt to the sandwich to help give a little protection to my cables if I am taking it around with me.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 11
    Step 11

    Sew all the way around all of the layers, leaving about a 5cm gap at the end.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 12
    Step 12

    Turn the whole piece inside out then sew all the way around the outside with a neat top stitch.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 13
    Step 13

    attach the other end of the buckle with some more elastic and attach it on the outside of the cosy.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 14
    Step 14

    If like me you are using a directional fabric, think about which direction it will be facing when it is folded as well as when it is hung up, I wish I had made mine the other way as you can't really see that it is the right way up when it is hanging and it looks upside down when it is folded up on the outside.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 15
    Step 15

    Also don't forget to stitch the poppers onto the zipped pouch so you can attach it when it's hanging or take it off if you need to take it out with you.

  • How to make a pouch, purse or wallet. Cable Cosy - Step 16
    Step 16

    There you have it, a cable tidy/ gadget accessories cosy that can hang neatly under your desk and come out with you when you need to travel with your tech.

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Jamie Bhajan
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Steph.
Steph. · Reading, England, GB · 212 projects
That's such a good idea!! Thanks for the tutorial Happy xx
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