"So how many of those are you going to make?" That you are smack dab in the middle of your next obsession.
But Seriously Sports Fans, this one even has a Tactile Snapping Satisfaction!
Who knew last week of school when Monica came down to show me the purse her friend made, and asked me to guess the closing mechanism that I would have the topic sentence for my August composition, "How I Spent My summer Vacation"
As I've indicated on a previous post: measure the circumference of the opening, cut metal measuring tape to that length, duck tape the ends... make a casing slipping the tape in so that when folded the convex sides touch.....finish by sewing shut the casing.
Try it and see if you don't have a new hobby like making purses that snap shut. FYI Home depot has some really cheap 25' tapes for $2-something, otherwise the Stanley ones are $6 for 16'.
One caution, the cheap ones don't stay open, so unless you're prepared to destroy the darn thing with a hammer once it snaps back into it's case, weight it down to keep it open long enough to tape the "cut off pull thingey" to the newly cut end. I hope that makes sense.
PS..... I still sew Velcro an inch below the casing...... Otherwise I know I'll lose my cell for sure.
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