Travel Jewelry Case

I’m very tired of dealing with tangled necklaces and rummaging through little bags to find my earrings when I travel. I’m guessing that some of you know just what I mean. Some time ago I’d bought a finishing kit, with all of the necessary zippers and other notions that would go into making yet another of Annie Unrein’s patterns, this one specifically for jewelry. I bought it, but I never got around to actually making the case. Oops. But that’s in the past, as I’ve been working on it for the past couple of days, and I will now be able to organize my bits and pieces of jewelry when I travel. Yay! It’s not as though I travel with (or even own!) a lot of jewelry, but I like to have at least one or two pairs of earrings and a necklace or two.

This case is very well laid-out. In the open view, there are three zippered pockets on the left, as well as a roll for rings and a perforated piece of ultrasuede for earrings. On the right there’s another roll for bracelets. There’s also a separating zipper at the far right.

The pattern showed the zippers on the left side opening from the left to the right, but I switched that around so that the zipper pulls would stay tidy inside the case.

Opening that zipper reveals a space for hanging four necklaces, which then pass underneath a piece of fabric to keep them flat before they finally fit into an open pocket at the bottom. No more tangled chains!

It occurs to me that this case will be very handy for more than jewelry; for example, I could also stash keys in a zippered pocket while I’m away and don’t need them right then.

I made a mistake with the velcro closure, so it shows even when the case is empty, but I can live with that.