I love books, especially old, musty ones, books and fabric are two of my favourite things. So I feel a bit like I'm cheating when I got an e-reader for Christmas (it's a
Kobo, the most common type in Canada). I love supporting our local book shops and e-readers have played a part in several closing this year.
But when one is stuck on the couch with a sleeping baby that doesn't like being put down, a nice light e-reader is waaay better then heavy books. Plus it keeps me away from surfing the net on my phone and buying things I don't need, and is a change from re-watching every episode of
Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix.
I'm also making a point to really just rent e-books from the library (which I frequent otherwise) rather than buy books for it. I have had to cut down on book buying lately (no space really!) and so I'll keep my infrequent physical book buying to my remaining local shops if at all possible.
So this Kobo needed a cover, and naturally I had to make one. I took the opportunity (and the gift cards my lovely family got me) to pick up some gorgeous fabrics from the new local (and seriously awesome, I want to move in there) fabric store
Fabrications. I'm so happy they opened up shop, it's pretty much exactly the kind of shop this city needed, and if they have what I want/need, I plan to buy there! They now also have an online store set up too, you should all check it out. The owners are lovely people (they put up with little me loitering around for long periods of time! ha!) and I seriously want to buy everything there.
But for this project I picked up some
Echino fabric for the outside and some dots for the inside. I love how I was able to to use the entire pattern on the outside, wasn't sure it would work, but it did!
I used
this tutorial for the cover, and it was pretty easy to follow, just make sure you keep your seam allowances small or the cover will end up too small. And what's worse is when you've already cut your corners before turning and then... well lets just say, I had to waste a bit of this lovely fabric and start over. Oops!
Generally it turned out well, although I seem incapable of making square things like this actually square, but it serves its purpose nicely so I try not to notice its slightly wonky shape :)
I may or may not have picked up a bunch of other awesome fabric from Fabrications that's just waiting to become other things you'll hopefully see here in the near future!
