Have you been looking for a pouch for your Kindle, but not able to find quite what you were looking for? This week I decided to tackle this problem and designed my own Kindle pouch pattern.
I love reading, and with the amount of books that I get through in a week, I don’t have room for hard copies of all of my books so switched to a Kindle e-reader. Last year for Christmas I was lucky enough to get a Kindle Voyage. It has an adaptive side light so I can read it at night without it affecting my sleep, and it goes everywhere with me. I read it to wake up in the morning, on the bus to and from work, and at night to help me drift off to sleep!
With my job I do a bit of travel, and I have been worrying about breaking the screen of my trusty Kindle. While my old Kindle’s case does fit, the power button couldn’t be accessed and it slipped around a bit. I’d been keeping an eye out for new cases but the ones that I liked didn’t ship to Australia. I decided to design and make my own pouch to store my kindle while travelling.
For this pouch I’ve used some of the lovely Tula Pink fabric that I picked up at the Sydney Craft Fair, and since I couldn’t make my mind up between two of the prints, I decided to make the pouch reversible. I have also included a layer of wadding to cushion the Kindle from small impacts.
These fabrics are called The Hypnotizer and The Wanderer from the Chipper line of Tula Pink fabrics in the Raspberry colour. Lovely to work with and these colours are perfect for me. I’ve included a list of materials and the instructions to make this pouch below. I have made this with smaller pieces incase you wanted to include different colour pieces for front and back, or if you’d like to quilt some of the pieces, though this would make it harder to turn inside out.
This pattern is designed to fit the Kindle Voyage size, but at the end of the pattern I will give instructions on how to customise it for your device.
Materials:
- 1 fat quarter of extrernal fabric* (A)
- 1 fat quarter of internal fabric* (B)
- 1/4 yard of cotton wadding
- Cotton in a coordinating colour with fabric
* I only used about 1/4 of these fat quarter pieces, but if your fabric is directional you may need to place the pieces in different arrangements and use more of the fabric. You could purchase a quarter yard of fabric but this will only work of the pattern is non-directional or the pattern is oriented correctly.
Directions:
Cut the following sized pieces:
- 7.5″ x 5.5″ main pouch pieces
- 2 in fabric A
- 2 in fabric B
- 2 in wadding
- 3″ x 5.5″ flap pieces
- 1 in fabric A
- 1 in fabric B
- 1 in wadding
- Take the main pouch pieces in Fabric A and wadding and layer them in the following order from bottom to top:
- Wadding
- Fabric A face up
- Fabric A face down
- Wadding
- With these four layers now aligned, sew with a scant 1/4″ seam along the two side (long) edges and bottom edge.
- Trim corners and any excess wadding then turn inside out, turning the corners as you go.
- Take the main pouch pieces in fabric B and layer them so that the right sides of the fabric are facing each other.
- Sew with a scant 1/4″ seam along the two side edges and bottom edge, leaving a 1.5″ break in the middle of the bottom edge to allow for later turning.
- Insert exterior (fabric A) pocket into interior (fabric B) pocket, so that right sides are facing each other.
- Sew around top edges to join the layers with a scant 1/4″ seam.
- Pull exterior (A) fabric out through gap in the bottom seam of the interior (B) fabric.
- Top sew along the gap to close the opening. then push lining back inside of exterior fabric (A).
- Take the flap pieces and layer them in the following order:
- Batting
- Fabric A face up
- Fabric B face down
- Mark a point on the bottom edge (5.5″ side) 1″ from each side. Draw a line to the corresponding top corner to give angled sides. Cut along this line (See red lines in diagram below).
- Sew a scant 1/4″ seam along all edges, leaving a 1.5″ gap for turning along top edge.
- Turn so that right sides of the fabric are facing out and top sew along top edge to close gap
- Pin flap piece onto back of the finished piece so that it is attached to Fabric A and the long edge is parallel to the top edge of the pouch, and sits 1/2″ in from edge of fabric (see earlier pictures of finished pouch for guidance).
- Attach flap to pouch by sewing along long edge the flap piece (Where you top sewed to close the gap earlier on the flap piece).
- When your Kindle is inserted, simply tuck the flap piece inside the pouch and your Kindle is nicely protected from scratches and bumps.
Instructions for adapting pouch to your size requirements.
My Kindle measures 6.4″ x 4.5″ x 0.30″ . I rounded up the height to 6.5″ then added a half inch to the height and width to give me the main pouch piece sizes. Mine fits quite tightly, so if your kindle is thicker than mine, you may need to add extra allowance to the width and height for this. I decided on the height of 3″ for the flap piece and this seemed proportional to the rest of the pouch, but you can change this as you wish.
If you need anything clarified let me know! 🙂
Happy sewing,
Meagan x
Take a look at Bella Coco’s tutorial on YouTube if you’d like to learn this technique! I always find her videos easy to follow, but this video is the simplest that I’ve found to date. If you can make Granny Squares you shouldn’t have any issues with the C2C technique.
