Sewing Hall of Shame Commences

I plan to document sewing projects that I've botched. Nothing like that to keep me humble. I was making a sleeve for my Kindle and wanted to use this bird fabric with a white background that I had in my fabric stash. Bird fabric are all the rage right now and I've jumped on the bandwagon. Anyway, I was worried about the predominantly white fabric getting dingy quickly from lying around the house, from Ava's grubby hands, and riding at the bottom of my bag along with sticky Cheerio crumbs.

So, I decided to laminate the fabric so I can just wipe it clean. I used iron-on vinyl for the first time. Easy as pie. I looked at a free tutorial online briefly and then just made the Kindle sleeve my own way. It didn't turn out well because the opening of the sleeve was so tight and could barely fit the free arm of my sewing machine to get underneath the pressor foot. That caused the gigantic wrinkle that you can see in the flap.

I can't rip out the seams and try again because that ruins the vinyl. I'd already nicked one part of the sleeve with a hot iron and melted the vinyl. Bleh.

So, my friend Carrie felt sorry for me and offered to make me one since I had no time to sew another one before I headed out of town with my Kindle and no protection for it. She did a far better job and no ugly vinyl:

Note the compass lining fabric. Very appropriate, isn't it?

I love my Kindle cover!