I lost my sunglass case last week, so I considered buying a new one. Then I remembered this little art embroidery piece, which I made from a magazine project but never did anything with -- just about the perfect size for a quilted case.
I trimmed off the bottom of the piece to get it to the right size, and then grabbed some complimentary fabric and batting from my scraps stash.
I handstitched a little quilt out of that, and once more remembered why I didn't like this project -- the fusible web holding it together made it hard to sew. But on the plus side, it made it very stiff and sturdy, which worked nicely as a case.
I turned it outside in and sewed up everything but one end to finish the case. Came out nice. If you want to make a glasses case even simpler, find a nice-sized quilted pot holder that is a rectangle shape, fold it in half long ways, and stitch together. If it's already bound you don't even have to stitch and turn it, you can just run a stitch along the inner seam of the binding.
As for the piece I trimmed, I'll make that into a bookmark. :)
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