How to Make a Little Boys Baseball Card Pouch

Little boys grow like weeds. Every year the size of clothing they need goes up a size. Every year we clean out their closets and dresser drawers. We put too smalls in a pile. What happens to the too smalls? Those adorable clothes that used to fit?

Too small usually get passed on, given away, or thrown away. Any way you look at it their time with your child has passed. Isn't it a sad thing to put a child's favorite shirt in the pile of too smalls? It is. Here's how to recycle one of your son's too small shirts. You can make your son a baseball card pouch and give that old shirt a new life.

What you'll need is a too small shirt, a pair of sharp scissors, three strands embroidery thread, a safety pin, sewing thread, and a needle.

Start by using the sharp scissors to cut the shirt. Turn the shirt sideways. Place your scissors right under the armpit of the shirt. Cut a straight line across the shirt to the exact same point on the other side.

What you'll have is a square of shirt that has two layers. Cut the seams on each side to make it two separate pieces of fabric. Mark out a square on top of the two layers that measures 5 inches wide by 5 inches long. Cut out the square carefully making sure that the two pieces of fabric do not slip. You will have two pieces. Both will be the same.

Take the two pieces and face them together so that the pattern sides are in. Thread your needle with a matching colored thread. Fold the sides over one half an inch and stitch them. Double stitch each side for extra strength. Do the same for the bottom.

Sewing the tops on the pouch is a little different. Do each side of the top separately. Fold the fabric back toward you one half an inch and stitch along the bottom edge of the fabric. This will create a little pocket where the fold is. That is where the string will be inserted. There is not an issue of doing each side the same as you will end up sewing in a circle around the entire top opening.

Once the top opening is stitched take the scissors and cut two very small slits in the top of the fold in the center. Make the slits half an inch apart. Do not slit down more than one quarter of an inch.

Next take the three strands of embroidery floss and braid them. Secure each end of the braided string with a knot. Insert the safety pin into a knot on either end. Turn your pouch right side out. Insert the safety pin into one of the slits and feed it around the top until it comes out the other slit. You will create a drawstring. This will enable the pouch to be opened and closed at the top. You're done! That's all there is too it.

Little boys love to collect baseball cards. This is a creative way to create a baseball card storage pouch out of a little boys outgrown shirt. Thanks for reading and take care!