Sewing

Apparently word had gotten out that I was making some Kindle & Tablet Covers. (See my first attempt, Mr Banya’s Adam cover, and Miss TMME’s Kindle Cover). So one of our friends, The Cranky Fisherman, put in an order for a Kindle Cover for his then girlfriend, now fiancé, the lovely Miss Demeanour.

Front

Inside. The Kindle fits snugly inside the jeans pocket.

Back

Mostly upcycled, of course. The idea came about when I realised how snugly the Kindle fitted inside the jeans pocket. Snug as a bug in a rug. Meant to be…The jeans were an old pair of Mr Banya’s with an unfortunate hole, and the blue, white and pale yellow stripy fabric was from my Reverse Garbage $5 green bag stash from ages ago.

The inside padding is from an old polyester blanket. The front “button” is a broken handbag table hook. And the blue ribbon was originally wrapped around a present I’d once received. The white ribbon, velcro and thread were the only things that were new.

And here is Miss Demeanour modeling her “not very new” new Kindle cover!

Now I know that Miss TMME likes blues, greens, skulls and butterflies. But since I was intending to upcycle from my scraps and worn out clothes stash, my options were limited. I found a few likely contenders though. Some old holey jeans. Three different pretty blue scraps, some coordinating ribbons…

After too-ing and fro-ing about the different fabric combos, I decided to go with the jeans + blue floral fabric. I used the money pocket and the button as embellishments. Here’s how she turned out…

Front

Inside with velcro on the strap

Other side (you can see the other part of the velcro on the right)

Here’s a close up of the back, with the jeans money pocket zigzagged on, to make a pocket within a pocket.

That’s where the kindle goes, lovey!

And that’s for a little something something on the side.

Now, because the fabric is thin and stretchy, I actually sewed this to some of the denim first. That way, it was a lot easier to deal with.

Next, I used the same basic pattern from my first Kindle cover, except I removed the extra two pockets and the elastic tabs from the inside, which I found tricky to sew and superfluous.

And instead I zigzagged on a totally superfluous mini pocket to the back side, effectively creating two pockets. But I love this little detail, it looks super cute!

I also cut the waist strap (including the button) to use as the strap. I glued on some magnets to both the inside of the strap and corresponding part of the cover, but alas they didn’t work. I guess there was too much fabric between them? So I fixed this by handsewing on some dodgy velcro over the same spots. It isn’t the prettiest, but it serves the purpose, and is hidden from view most of the time.

A bit of dodgy zigzagging here and there to add a bit of “flavour”, and there you have it, a one-of-a-kind Kindle cover for a one-of-a-kind friend!

Hope you like it Miss TMME!

xx
Danya

Here’s a super easy “refashion” for you.

I started with this infant bodysuit (aka onesie) which had been handed down from JJ to Bee, and as you can see, had been loved just about to death.

Holey crotch, Batman!

Initially I was considering cutting out the little baby giraffe design to appliqué onto a plain top, but then I thought –  BABY CARDIGAN! So obvious, and so easy…

(OK, I’ll admit that I first tried to do the hem with my new double needle, but failed dismally in getting the tension right. So I cut off that dodgy hem and instead re-hemmed twice using my normal needle. Not quite as straight as it would have been with the double needle, but certainly good enough. And Bee doesn’t mind…)

xx
Danya

Now I know that Miss TMME likes blues, greens, skulls and butterflies. But since I was intending to upcycle from my scraps and worn out clothes stash, my options were limited. I found a few likely contenders though. Some old holey jeans. Three different pretty blue scraps, some coordinating ribbons…

After too-ing and fro-ing about the different fabric combos, I decided to go with the jeans + blue floral fabric. I used the money pocket and the button as embellishments. Here’s how she turned out…

Front

Inside with velcro on the strap

Other side (you can see the other part of the velcro on the right)

Here’s a close up of the back, with the jeans money pocket zigzagged on, to make a pocket within a pocket.

That’s where the kindle goes, lovey!

And that’s for a little something something on the side.

Now, because the fabric is thin and stretchy, I actually sewed this to some of the denim first. That way, it was a lot easier to deal with.

Next, I used the same basic pattern from my first Kindle cover, except I removed the extra two pockets and the elastic tabs from the inside, which I found tricky to sew and superfluous.

And instead I zigzagged on a totally superfluous mini pocket to the back side, effectively creating two pockets. But I love this little detail, it looks super cute!

I also cut the waist strap (including the button) to use as the strap. I glued on some magnets to both the inside of the strap and corresponding part of the cover, but alas they didn’t work. I guess there was too much fabric between them? So I fixed this by handsewing on some dodgy velcro over the same spots. It isn’t the prettiest, but it serves the purpose, and is hidden from view most of the time.

A bit of dodgy zigzagging here and there to add a bit of “flavour”, and there you have it, a one-of-a-kind Kindle cover for one of my drinking buddies!

Hope you like it Miss TMME!

xx
Danya