iPad Case

Happy Easter weekend! My dad came to Nashville to visit me over the holiday, and after the hello hugs I immediately made my way to his iPad. I don't have one of my own (Dad, if you're reading this - Christmas... *cough cough*) so whenever there is one around I'm sure to hoard it. Kind of like babies. Anyway, seeing his iPad gave me a new project idea. An iPad case! I did a little searching on Pinterest and decided to mimic the tutorial here, but I did a few things to make it my own.

Honestly, the hardest part of the entire thing was picking out the fabric! It's technically an iPad case for my dad, so the feminine fabrics had to stay in the fabric bin. I finally settled on a cool guitar print. Hey, I live in Nashville! I started by cutting all my fabric.

• One piece of the outside fabric and inside fabric, each 21 1/2 by 11 1/2 (I used flannel on the inside to protect the iPad screen
• Coordinating fabrics for the outside and the inside of your fabric. The outside piece should be 7 1/2 by 4 1/2 and the inside piece should be 7 1/2 by 6 1/2
• Three pieces of heavy weight interfacing
• 4 1/2 by 11
• 8 by 11
• 7 1/2 by 11

First I made the pocket. Putting the edges of the right sides together, I sewed a 1/4 inch seam to connect my two pocket pieces (outside and inside). I opened seam up, pressed it, and then did a top stitch on either side of the seam to create a cool look for the final product.

Then, folding the now whole piece in half, with right sides together, I sewed around the 3 remaining sides, leaving an inch or so open at the bottom to turn it inside out. There was no need to sew on the top side...the fold did that for me. And yes, when I folded it in half the fabrics weren't even. That's ok though - it was supposed to be that! After turning it inside out it looked like this:

The bottom still has an open hole, but I closed that up when I sewed the pocket on the main piece of fabric in this step. I put the large main fabric piece face down on my table, and folded the bottom up so I had an 8" piece showing the right side. 

I centered my pocket on this piece of fabric. It was 1" from the bottom, and had about 2 1/2 inches on each side. I pinned it in place, unfolded the fabric so I didn't sew the front and back together, and top stitched around the two sides and bottom. 

Once that was finished, I applied the interfacing. On the wrong side of the fabric I positioned the 4 1/2 inch piece 1/2 inch from the top and 1/4 inch from each side. 1/4 below the bottom of that piece I positioned the 8 inch piece. Another 1/4 inch below the 8 inch piece I placed the 7 1/2 inch piece. This is important because it'll allow natural creases later. Be sure to iron them in place!

 Now I was in the home stretch! Kind of. Putting right sides together, I pinned the large inside piece and the large outside piece together and started sewing! I was sure to leave a good 4 inch opening at the bottom so I was able to turn it inside out. Oh yeah, and I backstitched on either end of that so it was durable!

Once turned inside out, I folded the bottom up and it looked like this:

Last step was top stitching around the entire, yes I said entire, iPad case! This held the sides together and made it look pretty. I ironed the whole thing afterward and was sure to iron the top flap crease so it stayed. It looked like this!

and this!

and this!

and finally...this!