Animal-free knitting needle case

The first of my Christmas present crafts, this, and one I’m pretty pleased with — a variation on my own knitting needle case which will be going to Mrs Eat a Vegan.  The beautiful floral fabric is by Heather Bailey, which I picked up at the Lola Rose stand at the Knitting and Stitching show; the ribbon is from A Rubanesque in the Powerscourt Centre.

I say “pretty pleased” because there is fierce puckering going on at the top of the plain cream fabric, where it meets the green ribbon and the red lines that make up the needle pockets.  The photo above is terribly forgiving of this puckering, but I’ve tested it out and, when the pockets are full, it’s not quite so noticeable.  On my own case, I happened to use the patterned fabric in that section, which turns out to be an unexpectedly wise move — a patterned fabric which will hide a multitude of sins; as you can see below, slight wonkiness in the lines is completely unimportant when given some camouflage.

However, some imperfections notwithstanding, it does its job, and I entirely love the fabbo floral print, of which I have some leftovers.