In January of 2006, Carolyn from Creative Needlecraft asked me to create a special design for her Garment Roll pattern. She wanted the design to be multi-purpose: as an embroidery design to hold the name card on the garment roll and also as a freestanding luggage tag made in the hoop. The idea gave me the incentive to create an eye glass case. As I was working on the Shaded florals collection, the eye glass case was perfect for the 4x4 hoop designs.

“Shaded Florals” Eye glass case is a lovely made in the hoop project. The eye glass case design is versatile to be used with or without embroidery or it can be embellished with your own favorite design from your design collections. There are five variations in the Eye glass case project: Each variation file comes with a detailed instructions on how to create the eyeglass case.

1. sfappliquefront: This file belongs to the front panel of the eye glass case with appliquéd Morning glory design.
2. sfback: This file is the back panel file and can be used with all the front panels described above.

This design will create an appliquéd flower on the front panel of the eye glass case.

1. Hoop water soluble stabilizer.
2. The machine will stitch out the area for placing the fabric for the front panel.(1)

5. Do not change threads. Place the appliqué fabric for the Morning glory and the machine will stitch it down.

6.Remove the hoop from the machine and lay on a flat surface. DO NOT REMOVE STABILIZER OR FABRIC.

7. Trim close to the appliqué design of the morning glory to remove excess fabric. Also trim away the excess front panel fabric. (4)

8. Place the hoop back in the machine. Change threads accordingly to the design to finish stitching it out. (5)

9. Remove the hoop from the machine and lay on flat surface. Place a piece of flannelete right side down on the table. Pin the flannel to the stabilizer, making sure that the pins are not in the way of the stitching and that the piece is large enough to cover the back side of the front panel. (6) The machine will stitch down both layers joining them together.

10. Remove hoop from machine and lay on a flat surface. Turning the hoop to the back side, trim close to the stitching line. (10).

11. Wind a bobbin of the top thread that will be used to stitch the opening area of the front panel. Place the bobbin in the machine. Place hoop back in machine to let finish the satin edge of the top of the front panel.(11)

12. Do not trim away the stabilizer once the design is finished. You will need the stabilizer to pin to the back panel.

1. Hoop water soluble stabilizer in the hoop. The machine will stitch out a rectangular shape on the stabilizer. Remove hoop from machine. Do not remove stabilizer.

2. Place a piece of your fabric right side down on a flat surface. Place a piece of batting on top of it.

3. Place the hoop on top of the batting. Place your second piece of fabric right side up on top of the hoop.

4. Pin all layers together.

5. Wind the same thread as the top into an empty bobbin. Place bobbin in machine. Place hoop in machine.

6. The machine will stitch all layers together and then stitch the quilting stitches through all layers.

7. Remove hoop from machine and lay on flat surface. Do not remove stabilizer from hoop.

8. Trim away excess fabric from the front and back of the hoop as well as the batting.

1.Matching the bottom and sides of the front panel to the back panel, pin the front panel to the back panel by placing pins all around. Make sure that the panels match up.

2. Make sure that the bobbin thread is the same as the top thread. The machine will join both pieces together.

3. Remove hoop from machine. Trim excess stabilizer from all around the glass case and from around the opening of the glass case.

4. Take a qtip and wet its tip in warm water. Run the qtip around the edges of the glass case to remove the water soluble stabilizer. Be careful not to use too much water.

You may also wash your eye glass case to permanently remove all the water soluble stabilizer from within its layers. Please soak and keep on changing water to remove all the stabilizer. I normally put mine in the washing machine in a mesh bag. Be sure that you have pre-shrinked all fabrics if you are going to wash the eye glass case.

Shaded Florals Embroidery design eye glass case

Download sfcolorfront and back designs with instructions

Shaded Florals quilted eye glass case

Download sfquilted and back designs with instructions

Shaded Florals Shadow Work effect eye glass case

Download sfreverseapp and back designs with instructions

Shaded Florals plain eye glass case (you insert your own design-design shown is from For Pansy collection)

Download sfreverseapp and back designs with instructions