A scientific Kindle cover

Here's another custom Kindle cover that I've made recently. The brief....conical flasks....interesting.

This one was for a school friend of mine, also called Emma (ickle Em's) *waves* and I love the colours.

I am sad that almost every scrap of my lovely leathers has now been used. I am still on the never ending search to get some more. So if anyone out there knows where there are some sample books going I'd really appreciate the heads up.

I am definitely no longer scared of sewing with leather :D Cant wait to get my hands on some more to make a few more covers.

Are you all ready for Christmas??? Nope me neither, still sewing gifts, still needing to go shopping, still got presents to wrap, still dithering about it all.....need to get oneself into gear and get it all sorted!!!

Cupcakes & books

Cant believe I forgot to show this post :( I think it was because I posted some photos on my FB page and thought no more about it. I know 'How dare I'!!!

These lovely pair were another order from the fabulous Clare *waves* and I have to say that the cupcake is most definitely my favourite motif to date. Gorgeous sunny yellow front and candy pink back. And another of the book motif, this time petrol blue front and sage green/grey back.

Couldn't resist showing some close ups.....

.....pretty button detail on the cupcake, looks good enough to eat right?

Here is the close up of the book, lovely hues of greys against the petrol blue.

When I first thought about cutting up the lovely samples of leather, I felt sick to my stomach. One mistake and its ruined. Now I'm itching to get my hands on some more leather so that I can have a go at some ipad covers and a netbook cover for myself.I'm thinking monogram 'B' for obvious reasons.....

If you are interested in having a kindle/iphone/ipad cover made, please do get in touch.....you can have what ever you like as a motif on the front you just need to ask :)

Dragonflies

I've been at it again :) Kindle covers galore. This one was requested for a birthday, it had to be purples and lilacs and had to have some kind of dragonfly design on it.

After looking at some images of real dragonflies I came up with this design, I drew out my templates and then the fun bit....picked the leathers. I had to incorporate this lovely magenta pink as my stash of leathers are quickly diminishing :(

The back is a lovely shade of lilac with a tab of leather cut out the top so that you can grip the Kindle to slide in and out. And of course wouldn't be complete without my Bagladee tag on the back.

I was pretty pleased with the design but was anxious to know if the lady in question liked it?!?! I received a lovely comment on my Facebook page this week to say that she loved it. Ahhh happy customer always makes a happy Bagladee :D

Now the race is on to find somewhere I can get my hands on some off cuts or old sample books of leather. Can anyone out there help I am of course will to pay for said leather. I'd be forever grateful.

More Kindle photos to come soon.....I've been making quite a few these past few weeks.

Custom Orders

I love the fact I am quite a diverse 'crafter', in that I mean that I will take on just about any challenge. Quite some time ago I was asked by the very lovely lady called Clare if I would make a Kindle Cover out of some leather samples I was given. I said yes and took on the challenge. Fast forward to a month ago and Clare was back asking if I would like to make another.....Oh Yeah!! Then one turned into two. And here they are.

One for Clare's Dad which were 'manly' colours. Brown for the front and tan for the back and a cute book motif for the front.

The other for Clare's Mam which were lovely shades of pink and mauve. Clare's Mam is a quilter so I tried to mimic a quilt square and popped a pretty button in the middle.

Now I have an order for another two (not Clare), the theme dragonflies!!

I kinda feel that I've been neglecting you all lately. I know that I haven't been providing you all with the usual amount of blog eye candy and for that I am truly sorry, please bare with me I promise there will be lots of photos to come soon. I'm still popping in and reading your blogs just not commenting very often. I'm still being nosey though :) very busy time for lil'ol bagladee at the moment.

Kindle cover challenge

And a challenge it was, but anyone that knows me knows I love a good challenge. I think it was late January when I received an email from the lovely Clare over at Bligger Blogger. She had seen the iPhone covers that I had made for 2 of my friends at Christmas and wondered if I could make something similar for her Kindle.

You can read about it here in her blog post.

Clare knew what colours she liked and wanted something with a seaside theme, she was more than happy when I suggested little beach huts. Seeing as I hadn't worked with leather very much I was a little apprehensive as to how it was going to turn out. But as soon as I started sewing it I was more than happy with the results.

It wasn't all as easy as that though, and after a second attempt we got it spot on. So the first cover had its stitching unpicked and was cut down to make a zip purse.

Clare was a perfect 'Custom Order' customer. Thanks ever so much Clare for asking me to make them for you. I am hoping to make some more leather items in the future so it has been good practice :) I loved adding the detail of the buttons....I know any excuse to use buttons.....they're just sooooo nice!! :D

Constructive criticism....

thank you to all of you who left comments on my "You put your iPhone where???" post, I love feedback from my blog readers, your constructive criticism really is the best!

As suggested the very scrumdiddlyumptious doughnut inspired iPhone cover is now sporting a very yummy looking button and a loop to keep your iPhone safe from slipping out.

Perfect.....

This is the first of my short and sweet posts, hope its enough to keep your creative cravings at bay ;) and a very big hello to all my new followers, welcome to the sporadic world of bagladee I hope you like it here in my little world of fabric, bags and ramblings.

You put your iphone where????

Thought I'd have a go at making an iphone cover from scrumptious felt....can you tell what it is?

A yummy scrummy doughnut.....not sure if I will make anymore, just wanted to make something off the cuff and fun. Sometimes you just gotta break the routine.

And this is how I sewed all the little sprinkles on :D