My Crafts Experiments

This year when my parents arrived here, we gifted them iPad Air and we didn't expect Baba to fall in love with it. I had to either get new cover for it or just come up with something. So below is my rough diagram that I started with: I had below fabric cuts: 15.875 in x 10.5 in Inside Fabric 15.875 in x 10.5 in Outside Fabric 3 in x 10.5 in Outside Fabric 15.875 in x 10.5 in Thick double sided interfacing (2) I cut these sizes of cardboard from moving boxes 8.125 in x 10.125 in 5 in x 10.125 in 3 in x 10.125 in 0.25 in x 10.125 in I didn't measure how much white knit elastic I used but since I had it in pieces anyways I could just reuse those scraps. These are the steps I followed: On the inside fabric with right side on top, stitch elastics as shown below. I placed iPad and saw how it fits before stitching but just pinning the elastic. It should stretch elastic a little bit for snug fit. I took the 3 in wide outside fabric and folding it with right...

I am going to start this blog by posting about my most recent work. This blog will feature mainly knitting/crochet projects I have been doing since start of this year but I will include other projects too as time passes. March marked Anu - our friends Jaiveer and Kripa's daughter's fourth birthday and given that I was on knitting spree I though I have to make something for her birthday. She had seen me wearing my winter hat earlier and she had said its very pretty so I knew she would enjoy and value it :) I had bought a few yarn balls of red heart's pomp-doodle yarn just before it was discontinued because I loved the texture and effect it gave to the few patterns I saw. So I decided to do girl's bolero for her. Here is another picture of how it turned out. Here is the information on the yarn I used: Red Heart super saver, color: Purple Tones Almost 1 complete ball Red Heart Pomp-doodle, color: Plush-Plum 1/4 Ball Followed the directions for size 4 (firs...