No-sew: Quilling Supplies Roll Up Wrap Case

Hello Paper quilling lovers out there!

Have you ever want to bring your quilling supplies while traveling? If you do, this instructable is for you.

I usually store my quilling strips and tools in a regular cardboard box. When I have to travel and still want to bring my quilling supplies, I thought that I really need a-ready-to-go-quilling-pouch. So I decided to make one and share it with you.

Storing quilling strips in a sheet protector was already done by Cecelia Louie in her blog. I like how she keep the long, medium, and short quilling strips separated. She keep them in a binder or on the desk. But I thought that a binder is still not quiet fit for me because of the dimension of the binder and I can not store my quilling tools like scissors, tweezers, etc. in a binder. Thus, I decided to make a roll up case that can store the paper strips and also the quilling tools.

On the other hand, you don't need a sewing skill or a sewing machine to make this roll up canvas case! Let's rock!

To make this project, I used:

1. Canvas tote bag
2. Sheet protector size A5
3. Soldering iron
4. Hot glue
5. Glue gun
6. Satin ribbon
7. Ruler
8. Cutter
9. Scissors
10. Cutting mat

Actually I was not really confident with how I made the canvas roll. You can check DRAWzdova's video to make a really neat and beautiful canvas roll by sewing. However, I still want to explain how I made my canvas roll without a sewing machine.

I made it using my canvas tote bag (you can use linen fabric). I cut the canvas bag to get the size I need (46 cm x 37 cm). Then for every corner of the canvas, I glue satin ribbon to secure the corner and to hide the ripped edges. Then I detached one side of the shoulder string from the tote bag using a cutter and used it as the string of the canvas roll. I also use the left space of the canvas as the cap, to add more protection to the paper and the tools inside the canvas roll.

Prepare your soldering iron and don't forget to be carefull of the heat. I avoided drawing a line on the plastic as a sealing guide using a marker because it will leave a mark on the plastic after the sealing process. So I used my cutting mat and a ruler to help me make a guide line for sealing. Pay attention to the heat and the pressure when soldering the plastic, make sure the plastic won't get a hole because of the soldering iron, and the worst case the heat can get to your cutting mat.

The original sheet protector was for 21 cm paper strips. I used five sheet protector for the regular paper strips. For the medium and the smaller strips, I used one sheet protector. Then I used a carton board to make a cutting template and as a cutting base, because I need to kiss cut the plastic. Using a ruler, lightly cut across the horizontal line. Remove the template. Then seal the plastic using soldering iron as you can see in the picture.

Kiss cut: I adopted a term from sticker cutting (die cut and kiss cut) where I cut only the upper side of the sheet protector.

For the tools, first you need to decide what tool do you want to store in the canvas roll. For me, I decided to keep my most used tool in the canvas roll: glue (travel size), scissors, cutting pen, tweezers, ruler and a pencil. Then I sealed the plastic according to the size as you can see in the picture. As you can see, there was a left empty space above the glue and the scissors. So I kiss cut that part to separate them and make another space maybe for my eraser.

As I mentioned before, I did not sew anything in this project. I attached the sheet protector using hot glue. I realized that hot glue was quite durable, as long as you did not intend to rip the sheet protector from the canvas. Arrange all the sheet protector in some distance (I used 4 cm distance between sheets).

That's all, I hope you enjoy the tutorial!

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