I know these blog posts on the subject are a little spaced out, bear with me. Today's toy for traveling and/or use in restaurants is perfect for any little boy (or girl) who loves those little race cars!
Take and Travel Car Garage and Track:
For this project I don't have the step by step photos, but the directions are pretty simple. I modified it from Creation Corner's carrier to make it more friendly for my little man and our needs.
This project requires- 3/8 yard for the front and back (2 pieces of 14.25"x11")
- 1/8 yard for the pocket (8"x11" then folded to make it 4"x11")
- 1 piece of interfacing 14.25"x11" fused to the back of one of the body pieces
- 1 piece of black felt cut to make an oval race track about 9" wide
- 1 elastic band
- 3 small Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars
- Cut your pocket fabric.
- Cut your body front and back pieces. Fuse the interfacing to one piece on the wrong side of the fabric.
- Take that piece of fabric with interfacing on it and pin the pocket to the bottom edge of the fabric.
- Using a chalk pen, measure .5" and draw a line, then over 3.5" draw a line, over 3.5" draw a line, over 3.5" draw a line, then it should be .5" to the edge.
- Using the 3.5" lines as a guide, stitch a straight seam on the chalk lines to make 3 individual pockets for the little race cars.
- Take the felt race track and pin it to the top of the fabric then using black thread stitch around the outer and inner sides of the track to keep it in place.
- Put both body pieces of fabric with right sides together and pin in place, insert an elastic band between the fabrics where the pocket is so that the band is hidden and only a little bit of edge is sticking out, pin it in place
- Use 1/4" SA and stitch all around the edges leaving an opening about 2-3" for turning.
- Snip your corners, turn right side out, press with hot iron to remove wrinkles, top stitch around perimeter to close up opening and reinforce everything.
- Fill with small cars and give to a little one to enjoy!
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