We'll Ignore the First Version

Hiya from a.,

For Christmas I received the awesome gift of an ereader.  I had never been sure how I would feel about one, but now I get twitchy if I'm more than twenty feet away from it.  I just love the thing, and I call it my tin dog (which if you know what that means, you know how highly I regard this machine).
I know you can buy attractive cases to carry these things around in, but this is us so of course I just decided to make one myself.  This was also done in  part because I don't like the cases where the ereader stays in it.  It turns out I really prefer holding the machine itself, so I needed more of a slip cover than anything else.
Thus I made one, and it didn't turn out great.  It was a girly patchwork and the patchwork came out well but the quilting and binding just came out crooked and lumpy and I just wasn't satisfied.  The next day I went back to the drawing board, and simplified my ideas and ended up pleased with the results:

I had had some left over scraps of black kona and I had bought this jelly roll of these bright fabrics so I put it all together in a checkerboard fashion.  Here is the whole of the back:

I have to say that this is the best that my corners have ever turned out.  I am in love with chain piecing.  It looks nice and bright and cheerful and I like that.  It does have some stuffing and is quilting to add a little protection for the tin dog, but I quilted along the seems so it is easier to see what I did from the inside:

You can see that I just followed the grid of the square for the quilting.  It is a little had to tell in the photo but the pink inside lining actually has small polka dots.  The pocket top is just a continuation of the checkerboard.
I am happy with the results, but you know me, I'll probably make myself several covers, just so that I can change them out when the mood suits.

see you space cowboy....