My mother-in-law helped me lose about 12 pounds by helping me track my points for a couple of days. Apparently 12-15 points worth of almonds a day isn’t helpful to losing weight. For Mother’s day I made her a little holder for her new points plus calculator. You can have the calculator subttract points through out the day from your total but she likes pencil and paper and just uses it to calculate individual item’s points. So I made her this little holder. If you would like to make it – leave a comment and I can tell you the measurements.
I actually made it from C’s old navy skirt that doesn’t fit anymore so that’s why there is a cute bow on it – it was on the skirt and I just left it on. I cut two pieces of cardboard in that rounded rectangle shape and then put the two pieces of fabric on top and traced out a pattern, I knew that with the pad and then calculator it would be thick so I left extra for the fold which turned into the pen holder.
I then cut out two pieces of thin elastic and put it inbetween the rightsides of the two ouside pieces of fabric. I also put in a little strip for the closing. You’ll see in the last picture. I then sewed around three sides and then inside outed it. Then I put in the cardboard and topstiched all the way around, this was the most difficult part. I’m sorry I didn’t take pictures through out but I was afraid it wouldn’t even work.
The calculator closes even with the elastic inside it, which is nice since then you don’t have to take it out of the holder.
I then closed it up and sewed on a little snap… I would definitely do velcro next time.
I would love to have the measurements for your weight watcher holder.
Hi Connie. The height is 5 inches, the widthis 4 and 1/4 inches and the spine is 1 in thick. My mother-in-law still has hers but doesn’t actually use it anymore since I showed her how to save for the day. Good luck!