NEEDLE BOX - HALF AN APPLE - NEEDLEWORK TECHNIQUES

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Hello. Needle box is a very necessary thing for housewives. But everyone is used to seeing them square, round and not original. Today I want to share with you the idea of how to easily and quickly make an original and beautiful needle case with my own hands. For this we need:
- Foam rubber.
- Scissors.
- Fabric red, green, yellow and brown.
- Threads in the color of the fabric.
- A needle.
- The wire.
- Black and brown felt-tip pen.
- Nippers.
First we need foam. From it we will cut a half of the future apple. This can be done with scissors. Here's how I got it.

Now we take an aluminum wire, we bite off two pieces from it with pliers. One piece I turned out to be 9 centimeters long, and the second 20 centimeters. A short segment will serve us a stick for an apple, from a long segment we will make a leaf. It is done simply. We bend the wire in the form of a sheet, twist the ends together. In general, the length of the segments depends on the size of the cut apple.

We take the fabric. In fact, you can take a fabric of any color and any texture, because this is your apple and let it be the way you want it to be. I took a plain fabric of yellow, green, brown, and red with a pattern.

As you already understood, we will make a leaf out of green fabric. On fabric
put the wire frame, circle it, adding allowances for seams of 0.5 centimeters. Cut and stitch the leaf by inserting the wire frame into the inside.

Take the brown fabric. We cut a rectangle 3 centimeters wide, 6 centimeters long from it, wind it onto the second piece of wire for volume and sew it. Three centimeters of wire we have left without fabric.

Sew the leaf to the stick. It is only necessary to sew as tight as possible so that our leaf holds well.

Lubricate the tip of the wire with glue and insert it into the half of the apple.

Take the red cloth for the convex side of the apple and the yellow cloth for the smooth side. We sheathe an apple where we need to make undercuts.

Our apple is almost ready, it remains only to draw a core on a section of an apple. We draw it with brown and black felt-tip pens. If you are not an artist, then first I advise you to make the drawing with a simple pencil and, if you like, circle it with a felt-tip pen of the desired color. To make it easier to understand where and what to draw, take a half of a real apple and look. Here's what I got.