crochet / cross stitch mobile cover

[sparky]

i make crochet phone/tablet/kindle covers and was playing with cross stitch designs to sew to the front
and so make a tester for myself with a jack skeleton design as i am mad on the nightmare before Christmas.



i think it turned out pretty good though i think it is sewn on a little wonky but its only a tester

[sparky]

stitched another 2 little pictures today





it cost me some blood as well after i stuck the needle in my thumb

[Pyper]

Looking good. I like the phone/etc cover

[amphibious]

This is a suggestion, but I've never done crochet so I don't know how well it would work...

It strikes me that it would be better to hide/disguise the edges of the aida somehow. How feasible is it to crochet the case with a hole in it, slightly smaller than the aida, and then stitch the aida behind the hole?

I'm just making this up, so I accept no responsibility if it doesn't work out! :-)

(Of course it will make the inside of the case look a bit weird... and I don't know, maybe it will catch on the phone and pull off? And aida wouldn't scratch a phone.... would it?! Maybe you'd need a lining?)

[amphibious]

I mean a bit like what I do with my cards viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5069, if it would work with crochet.

I am always trying to think of how I could mount these smaller cross-stitch things, or incorporate them into something else, like you've done. I don't crochet, but I've often thought about sewing a cross stitch (on aida) into something made of felt.

[sparky]

i could easily do what you mean but i like the lines all around it

and it hides the back of the aida. i would also be worried about the edges of the aida scratching screens.

[amphibious]

Fair enough :-)