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| Made a mini iPad cover |
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| Complete with satin ribbon satin stitching |
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| and a wee blue bird |
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| This way when I take my mini iPad with me I can store it safely. |
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| First I drew and cut out a wee felt bird |
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| Then I had to match up the colours of the felt bird with my floss |
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| Once I found matching threads, floss... |
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| I looked through all my extra bits to see if I wanted to add any other felt cut outs. |
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| In order to hand sew the bird on I used just one strand of floss. |
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| Separating the floss strands. |
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| I first sew the darker blue wing on to the bird body using a decorative running stitch. |
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| Next I get the thread for sewing on a wee eye ready. |
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| Using black thread I make a french knot for the eye. |
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| Close up of french knot eye. |
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| I place wee bird onto felt |
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| And with matching thread colour I sew on bird using running stitch. |
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| All done |
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| Back side reveals a small knot that happened while sewing. The nice thing about felt is that its forgiving, not showing this mistake on front side. |
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| Using my sewing machine, I attach two strips of velcro with a satin stitch. |
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| Then I seamed up three sides of pouch, on sewing machine. |
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| Even though I used a simple running stitch with white thread, it doesn't show to much. |
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| All done! |
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| Safe and snug! |
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| OH! I use Fray Check to seal the edges of ribbon even though I seamed them too. Double protection because this flap will get allot of wear and tear. |
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| Ta Da! |
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| The pattern for the full sized iPad I found in this book, since I already have a cover for my iPad I needed one for my mini iPad. I altered that pattern accordingly. |
