Make a phone case

1. Measure your phone and draw a rectangle onto scrap card, 2cm wider and 1cm longer. This will allow for the thickness of the phone. Round off the two lower corners and trace around this onto soft leather hide twice and cut out.

2. Cut a 1cm x 28cm strip of leather. Stitch one end to the centre back of one case panel so the rest of the strip extends from the rounded end of the rectangle. This piece is the front. Take the other rectangle and use a craft knife to cut a 1.2cm wide slit across the middle of the top flat side, 1.5cm from the edge. This is the back.

3. Use circular items as stencils to cut three concentric circles from coloured leather scraps, eg. red, white and blue. Use a little PVA glue to stick the small circle to the centre of the middle one. With a hand sewing leather punch, make a series of holes around the circumference of the red circle. Back stitch the two discs together with sinew or strong thread using the holes.

4. Adhere the sewn circles to the middle of the largest one and sew down as before. Glue the stack of circles on the centre of the front panel covering the strip’s stitches. Punch around the circumference and sew to the panel, avoiding catching the strip and trimming away any excess circle at the edges of the rectangle.

5. Attach half a hammer fix snap fastener to the centre top edge of the front panel, 1cm from the edge, with the fastening part facing out. Place the two panels together, right sides out and thread the end of the leather strip through the slit in the back panel from the inside out. Use bulldog clips or pegs to hold the two panels together.

6. Use the punch to make a series of holes around three sides (leaving the top cl