I’m going to be honest with you. I started this blog entry last year when I was going to Santa Fe with my mother, and I totally forgot about it until recently. Oops! At any rate, I was going on a trip to a memorial service for my mom’s cousin, and I had the little problem of needing a slip but not having one that was wearable. I also needed more protection for my Kindle Fire, so I wound up doing a few sewing projects before my trip.
First, the slip. I found the elastic in the only slip that fit me was completely shot. As I didn’t mind losing an inch or two of length and I was in a hurry, I simply cut off the old elastic.
As I’ve mentioned, I was in a hurry, so I really didn’t want to monkey around with stringing the elastic through a channel I’d already sewn, so I tried a different technique: I cut the elastic and sewed the ends together, then pinned it into the channel before sewing.
Sewing the channel was a little tricky since I didn’t want to get the elastic with my seams, but it turned out okay. It doesn’t look pretty, but it’s functional.
My other project was a case for my Kindle Fire. I took more time with this, but as I was in a hurry, I didn’t think through how much extra fabric I really needed on the edges. It is really tight, and a couple of the seams are not as pretty as I’d like, but overall, I’m happy with it.
I wanted the Kindle to have both hard and soft protection, so I cut two pieces of cardboard about the same size as the Fire and two pieces of batting that were slightly larger than the Fire.
Cardboard
Batting
And this is as far as I got in this blog entry when I could actually remember what I actually did. I sewed the cardboard and batting between layers of fabric (and I love the fabric). I do recall, that I should have given myself a bit more room, as it was hard to sew the final edges together to house the KF. I used velcro to close the case, but I should not have planned on the self sticking velcro. I wound up having to stitch it down in places, and that stuff is heck on a needle. Also, I added a decorative button to look like the actual closure, but that was kind of loose. If I’d had more time, I might have taken another stab at the whole thing, but it still served it’s purpose for the length of my trip. Here’s the final product:
Looking at this fabric still makes me happy!
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