That's the back. Isn't the bird fabric fantastic? I treated myself to a yard of Echino's Peck Stripe pattern at Sew Mama Sew, sort of specifically for this project but mostly because I wanted to make some small things for myself later.
Here's the front:
After the excitement of the fabric purchases, I spent a few weeks panicking about design. I couldn't face a zipper and anyway I wanted the cover to be just cloth with nothing sharp that could damage the iPad inside. I also wanted to be respectful of the possibility that tying effective, as opposed to decorative, bows might be still a little out of reach of the girl I was making it for. Hey, I was older than she is before I learned to tie my shoelaces, and look at me now!
Here's how my idea works:
The buttoned cover opens to expose a very basic padded pouch, sewn from plain linen I found at Alewives (love that shop!). I sewed the cover onto the pouch at one end so it wouldn't get lost.
When it was done I thought, Meh, this is a bit boring even if I tape a toy or candy to the package. So I folded up an index card to make a little pouch, trimmed it with coordinating Japanese masking tape, and slipped in an iTunes card.
(and then I put a toy and some watercolour pencilcrayons into the pouch, just to be on the safe side. la la la!)
1 comment:
most excellent!
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