April's Goal - A Phone Pouch for my Husband

I've met my goal for "A Lovely Year of Finishes" for April.  YAY!  It was down to the wire, let me tell you.
My husband has been wanting a new phone pouch for some time as the one I had made him before had gotten pretty ragged.
 

I'm actually in the process of writing a tutorial for this pouch but I wanted to go ahead and post my finish so that I could link up at Fiber of All Sorts for this month.

This pouch slips over your belt as you slide it through your belt loops.  So it doesn't clip onto anything.  There is no chance it's going to fall off and into the toilet, or out of your pocket, etc.  As long as your phone is in your pouch, you won't loose it.

Once, I finished this pouch my husband pointed out to me that the belt loop was too far down.  It needed to be as close to the top as possible.  So, (sigh) I took all the side stitches out and moved the belt loop up and resewed the sides.  Now it is perfect.  I'll have all the pictures and instructions with my tutorial.

And now for some spring pictures!

I love these flowers.  They are in my flower bed in my front yard.  We always called them phlox but I think they are actually oxalis.  Does anyone know?  They are an old flower, you can't find them at the plant nurseries.  

They like to spill out and spread.

And change colors.
 My husband mows them down and they come right back - the ones outside of the beds that is.

*Linking up with Fiber of all Sorts*

April Goal and a Friday Finish

Ok.  First things first.
My goal for March for A Lovely Year of Finishes was to complete the Giant Starburst Quilt which I did.
So, now moving on down my to-do list, my April goal is to make a new phone pouch for my husband which he has wanted for some time (and I'm tired of listening to him complain).
I can't find a picture of the one he has now but it's similar to the one I made my FIL for Christmas which is this one:

 This was made from a lightweight cotton that looks like denim and I used a heavy interfacing to make it stiff.
 The belt loop is added on the back and he just slides his belt through it and that's it.  No clip, no worrying about it falling into the toilet, no carrying it in a pocket where it is uncomfortable.  My FIL uses his everyday.

Phone fits right inside and it kind of blends with his jeans that he always wears.

My hubby uses his everyday to and has since I made it about 2 or so years ago.  It is showing it's age.  I have this leftover UT Texas fabric that I'm going to try to use as lining or something.  We'll see how it turns out.

And now for my Friday Finish!
I made a new pillow cover for my front porch pillow.  The old one had faded really bad and was so sad that I was tired of looking at it.

So I bought this new fabric which is resistant from fading for up to 500 hours of sunlight.  Great!  
Anyway I love the colors in it, aquas, greens, and blues.  I made this cover a bit too big for the pillow because the last cover was really tight and was impossible to get off and on. 
But, as you can see from the picture of the back, it's maybe a bit too large.

 

 The back is just a white cotton duck I already had.

 My front porch.  The pillow looks great but everything else needs a makeover and it needs plants.  I'll have to see what I can do.  My son likes to spray paint, maybe he'd paint my table for me - a happy yellow?

 Welcome back to Amanda at Crazy Mom Quilts.
*Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts and Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation and Fiber of All Sorts for A Lovely Year of Finishes*