Kindle Bag
17 Apr 2011 2 Comments
I’m very proud!
Yesterday my hubby came home with a present for me, he’d bought me a Kindle to reward me for finishing my counselling course and getting a job which is more in line with what I actually want to do rather than just hiring my admin skills out for money.
My mind of course immediately turned to accessories – I can’t help it, I’m a girl, it’s what we do.
I started pondering about how I could craft one, whether I could manage one with a “frame” area so the Kindle could be read without removing it, etc etc.
Then I recalled a previously failed project. I’d knitted a flat tube on the red long loom with the intent of it becoming a neck pillow, but it was too small for the pillow I already had, and lay sadly waiting for me to get round to finding some stuffing for it.
I found it and slid my Kindle inside, perfect fit width wise, almost twice as long as it needed to be.
I stitched a line where the bottom of the Kindle was, folded the remaining tube up the front and stitched in place to create a smaller pocket on the front – or two pockets as there’s also the space between the tube ends. A bit more stitching to ensure nothing was about to unravel on me and it was time to look at the strap.
I recently treated myself to an automatic spool knitter, which is one of the most beautifully engineered things I’ve ever seen! Only £15 from an ebay seller, I chose the Prym after doing some user review research.
Today, however, it didn’t seem to like any of the wools I tried, and I very nearly gave up on this altogether before my innate stubborness won through and I rescued a tangled mess, unravelled it and tried again, managing to get a decent length of cord this time.
This got doubled up and sewn to the inside of the bag, twirling it together.
The next stage, which won’t be tonight, will be some decorative embroidery with a metallic purple thick thread I have, and to fashion some kind of fastening, for which I imagine making another length of spoolknit cord and a big button of some kind I have yet to own. Whether each pocket has it’s own fastening or there is one that reaches over all of them I’ve yet to decide. I may look at lining the pockets at the wool is fluffy and that could get annoying.
In the photos, I’ve put white paper peeking out of the pockets, so it’s clearer where they are, and also shown the Kindle poking out the top too – normally, the Kindle sits snugly inside and doesn’t poke over the top like this.
At some point I might look at a Kindle case that doesn’t have to be removed to read the Kindle, but for now, I’m blissed out at having a gadget bag of my own! I’m set for that long Easter weekend away now!
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