Wrist-watch pin cushion

Step 5 Wrap the bottle cap

Next you want to cut a strip of felt to go around the sides of the bottle cap (this part of the cap is usually ridged). This piece of felt can be cut from the strap color or from a totally new color of felt. You should be able to eyeball how wide of a strip you need by resting the bottle cap on the felt. Make the strip wide enough to overlap the fluffy part of the pin cushion slightly (shown here in green). Once you cut a strip, wrap it around the bottle cap. Trim the strip so that the two ends of the felt piece meet exactly (or with a fraction of an inch overlap).

Using a straight stitch--this is what most people think of as sewing, just regular up and down, back and forth stitches--sew the two sides together so the felt wraps around the outside of the bottle cap.

Ok, you got that? The next two steps are the hardest, but the fun part (decorating your watch!) is really coming.