Kindle Cosies
I drafted a pattern for a Kindle pouch on friday night, then saturday morning I stitched it together…
Here is my first attempt, about 1/2″ wider and 1/2″ shorter than I wanted the final result to be but the standard Kindle fits nonetheless. The button fastening is a bit tight because the pocket could do with being higher. I got to use my buttonholes on my machine and do inset zip pockets for the first time. OH then had the thought that it would be better if I had something solid, “like cardboard” inside it to protect the screen better. I went with plastic canvas that I had for bag bottoms and hadn’t used and came up with this one…
It’s still not great as the pocket still needs moving up half an inch and I also needed to sew the lining in with a 1/2″ seam rather than a 1/4″ seam so there’s a tiny bit of repair work that had to go on but I think I’ve nailed this design now. It’s better with the top stitching too. I particularly like the handmade polymer clay button on this, also chosen by OH 😉
Both of these are on sale in my Etsy shop as sample sale items, just to get the material costs back. Please take a look if you fancy one, the first is $6 (currently £4.10) and the second is $8 (£5.47 currently) each 🙂
The next thing is, do I sell the pattern, or send it to a magazine, or keep it to myself once I’ve made a couple of perfect ones?
March 4, 2013 12:14 pm|
Questions, questions, make some to sell in the shop as perfect ones maybe, and also try and sell it to a magazine, if that’s unsuccesful, put the pattern on Etsy? 🙂
March 4, 2013 12:22 pm|
If you send it to a magazine does that negate selling the pattern then? Because I would go for the money option, but then I am like that and I need a fabric budget.
March 4, 2013 6:03 pm|
Lovely shape! I don’t have a Kindle or a tablet or an I-phone or owt like that. It seems there are a lot of patterns for such gadget cosies out there, and many of them for free, but I might be wrong!
March 5, 2013 3:50 pm|
I’ve been doing the same sort of thing with for an iPad case, I’m on version 4 now and there are still a couple of tweaks needed, its never ending. Good luck with getting yours perfect and selling the pattern.