Hey there! I’m back online and I hope the new year is going very well for you so far!

And what better way to start a new year on the blog than finally showing you a finished project?

This ebook reader case can carry the reader itself, as well as all necessary accessories like charging cables or headphones. I made this as a gift.

Searching for an ebook reader case, I was looking for two things: One, it should be sturdy enough to protect the reader, so you could just toss it in your purse or bag pack and not be worried about scratching or damaging it. And two, the case should have a pocket to store all of the accessories as well. For some reason, I could not find anything that fulfilled both criteria, so I decided to sew one myself and made up my own pattern.

This is the front:

And the backside with the pocket for the accessories:

Being a sewing newbie, there are a lot of things to learn, of course. I always try to sew things that will teach me something new in the process. With this case, I tried my hand at two types of closures: my first machine-sewn buttonhole and the zipper.

Since things like “automatic buttonholes” are not included in Alice’s vocabulary, I had been rather weary of buttonholes up to then. But surprisingly, with the help of the manual, everything worked out very well from the start – so projects with buttonholes are definitely on the “can do” list now.

The zipper, I sewed in by hand. There are several layers of quilted fabric and really sturdy, heavyweight interfacing between the outer fabric and the lining, so the case will provide ample protection for the reader. I wasn’t going to feed this fabric sandwich to Alice, though.

One of the things I absolutely love about handmade items is the small details that you simply don’t find with off-the-shelf stuff – or that will cost you an arm and a leg with ready-made things. So, as a design detail I also included the apple pattern fabric on the underside of the pocket flap:

The little zipper pendant consists of some odds and ends that I found in the depths of my closet filled with DIY stuff.

All in all, I think the recipient was quite pleased with the gift, and at some point, I will surely sew a case like this for my own ebook reader. But before that, there are still a lot of other things on the “to sew” list. How come that once you get sewing, the list of projects grows longer and longer, while the actual sewing time grows shorter and shorter? Is this some kind of Zen riddle?

See you soon!

Kati