Make a key pocket - with guest 37 hours per day

 Hi my name is Leena and I come from Finland. I am posting a blog "37 tuntia vuorokaudessa" (37 hours per day) about my life as a mom, teacher and a craft addict. I am renovating an old farmhouse with my husband - a forever lasting but interesting and extremely fascinating lifestyle project!

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In Finland the kids starting school in early 1980 were called "key children". That´s because more and more mothers used to work outside home and children had to enter an empty home after the schoolday. The children needed a key of their own. At that time local bank offices used to offer children some leather made key pockets to hang on the neck for not to loose the keys during a school day. Not a bad idea at all! Today I have re-designed the idea of a leathered key pocket and here it is as a tut:

1. Materials

• key with a key ring 


• some nice fabric


• key chain 

2. Make a papermodel of a key pocket. Cut two pieces of fabric according to the paper model.

3. Pin the straight side of the each fabric (two times on the wrong side) and sew it.

4. Pin these two pieces of fabric together wrong sides of the fabric inside! And sew the round sides together: leave a hole on top (2cm).

5. Turn the pocket inside out and iron carefully. Sew the round side again, so that the earlier sewing will be totally hidden after this. Remember not to sew the hole on top again!

6. Turn the pocket again inside out. Sew with a thread and needle the edges of the hole on the top, so that those will not tear apart while in use.

7. Set the key chain on it´s place and give for a scholar!!