Soap Thingie

I like my liquid soap and poof but my husband prefers the good ol' fashion bar soap. I saw on Pinterest that you just sew up the sides of a piece of washcloth, and abracadabra you have a soap pouch thingie! I ran into a few problems, first one being a broken needle because of the thickness of the washcloth. Second, the needle kept getting caught in the little loops of the cloth.

See that little dangling thing on the black string? Yep, that's my needle. Anyway, the day before embarking on my little soap adventure, I decided to get out some scrap material to figure out how I was supposed to fold and sew the fabric to get the pouch I wanted. You know those sandwich baggies that come like 100/box, that you mom used to put in your lunchbox, that kind of fold into itself? That's the effect I was going for. After lots of folding and deliberating and folding again I finally figured it out! 

 

The idea is that that little flap fold on the inside will hold the soap in the pouch even when the soap gets smaller. And here is the finished product.

 

My pouch isn't exactly straight and the seams are way too thick but with all the issues I had with the machine and needles, I give myself a pat on the back. And if you don't want to put your soap in it, you can always use it as a candy holder☺

♦Elisha♦