Eyeglasses Tray

I love trays of all sorts and I’ve been wanting to sew one for my eyeglasses lately. I got a new nightstand at Ikea. It’s made out of steel and I thought it would preferable to lay my eyeglasses on something a bit more soft while I sleep. So, why not a fabric tray?

Eyeglasses Tray

I thought I would share with you how I did it. It could make some nice and quick gifts. This is much inspired by the fabric tray tutorial from Noodlehead. Here is the different pieces of fabric and interfacing I cut. I used woven fusible interfacing (like Pellon Shape-Flex 101) on the exterior fabric and the lining for the tray to hold better its shape. And I used some stiff interfacing for the tray bottom.

  • Exterior fabric (shown here: yarn-dyed Essex linen in black): 5″ x 8.5″
  • Lining (shown here: strip print from the Nicey Jane collection by Heather Bailey): 
  • 2 pieces of woven fusible interfacing: 4.5″ x 8″
  • 1 piece of stiff fusible interfacing: 3″ x 6″

The image below shows how I fused the different pieces of interfacing. The piece of stiff interfacing was fused to exterior fabric after the woven fusible interfacing.

Eyeglasses Tray

After that, I sewed the lining and exterior fabric right sides togethere leaving an opening for turning inside out. I sewed just next to the woven fusible interfacing leaving a 1/4″ seam allowance on each side. I clipped the corners before turning the tray right sides out. I pushed out the corners, pressed the tray and closed the opening using a whipstitch.

Eyeglasses Tray

I top-stitched the tray close to the edges, and then with the needle just next to the stiff interfacing to delimit the tray bottom.

Eyeglasses Tray

To finish the tray, I stitched all four corners with some embroidery floss.

Eyeglasses Tray

Eyeglasses Tray

Et voilà! a nice fabric tray for my eyeglasses.

5 thoughts on “Eyeglasses Tray

  1. Diane Beavers

    Josee
    thanks so much for sharing this…I need one pronto and you presented it just as the thought crossed my mind. I'm sitting at my machine now…setting up the iron to fuse.

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