A fun project

I decided to turn my Sundays into a ’24 hours free from Internet’ days, today was my first and it was a real delight! I got so much stuff done.

I also took a couple hours to do some sewing, I hadn’t picked up my sewing machine for over 6 months… 6 months!

I found a lovely and simple tutorial for an iPad case; using my fabrics (tweed for external fabric and a hand-dye cotton floral one for internal) together with a slightly alteration to that pattern, off I went (alteration because I didn’t have the right length zipper).

I need to finish it off a little, but I’m really pleased with it. I had my first go at quilting too and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. The case is nice and padded, perfect to protect my trusty pad from scratches!

Here’s my effort…

I hand-dye this fabric last year, it was a fun mini project. It was a white cotton with black flowers and it’s now a very dark pink (think raspberry pink)

Having cut my rectangles, I criss-crossed the inner fabric ready for quilting.

Quilting on my trusty machine. It may have not been perfect, straight lines but I learnt a lot as it was my first time trying my hand at quilting.

Stitching the three sandwich layers together. I then stitched the two panels together leaving top opening, I didn’t have a 23cm zip at hand, so I intend to finish it off with a button and some black satin ribbon.

My pad is now cosy and safe from risk of scratchings in my bag (think pens, keys… you name it, it’s a battle ground in there!)

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