{"id":70197,"date":"2026-04-01T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70197"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:00:08","slug":"finished-paris-cell-phone-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-paris-cell-phone-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Paris Cell Phone Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70201\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184933_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70201\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184933_wm-sm-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paris Cell Phone Wallet - closed\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184933_wm-sm-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184933_wm-sm-768x890.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184933_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 85vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris Cell Phone Wallet &#8211; closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/starting-another-cell-phone-wallet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started this project<\/a> SIX years ago.&nbsp; For some reason, I put it aside and didn&#8217;t get back to it for six years -until the past weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is <a href=\"https:\/\/stitchinpost.com\/products\/little-cel-phone-wallet-pattern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Cell Phone Wallet by Valori Wells<\/a>. I have made about a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/cell-phone-wallet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen of these to go with dresses<\/a> that have no pockets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sad part is that it only took me about an hour to finish it. The hardest part was turning it right side out as I had used a little too much interfacing.<\/p>\n<p>I reflected on the stumbling block in an effort to avoid that particular problem in the future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70200\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184937_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70200\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184937_wm-sm-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paris Cell Phone Wallet - open\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184937_wm-sm-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184937_wm-sm-562x1024.jpg 562w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184937_wm-sm-768x1399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_184937_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 85vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paris Cell Phone Wallet &#8211; open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The issue was that I ran out of the Paris fabric before I could cut all the pieces. As you can see I decided to use an AGF solid, Festival Fuschia for the pieces where I didn&#8217;t have enough fabric. I think it looks fine! And DONE is better than perfect, right?<\/p>\n<p>The reason I got back to it, however is the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/guild-ufo-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guild&#8217;s UFO challenge<\/a>. I might grumble about it, but it is helping me to get some projects off my To Do list, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I don&#8217;t know what the next number will be I might start working on one of my other UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this project SIX years ago.&nbsp; For some reason, I put it aside and didn&#8217;t get back to it for six years -until the past weekend.&nbsp; The pattern is Little Cell Phone Wallet by Valori Wells. I have made about a dozen of these to go with dresses that have no pockets.&nbsp; The sad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-paris-cell-phone-wallet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Paris Cell Phone Wallet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[439,128,488,255,561],"class_list":["post-70197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-cell-phone-wallet","tag-completed-project","tag-pouch","tag-project-bag","tag-small-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70197"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70209,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70197\/revisions\/70209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}