I drafted a pattern for a Kindle pouch on friday night, then saturday morning I stitched it together…
Here is my first attempt, about 1/2″ wider and 1/2″ shorter than I wanted the final result to be but the standard Kindle fits nonetheless. The button fastening is a bit tight because the pocket could do with being higher. I got to use my buttonholes on my machine and do inset zip pockets for the first time. OH then had the thought that it would be better if I had something solid, “like cardboard” inside it to protect the screen better. I went with plastic canvas that I had for bag bottoms and hadn’t used and came up with this one…
It’s still not great as the pocket still needs moving up half an inch and I also needed to sew the lining in with a 1/2″ seam rather than a 1/4″ seam so there’s a tiny bit of repair work that had to go on but I think I’ve nailed this design now. It’s better with the top stitching too. I particularly like the handmade polymer clay button on this, also chosen by OH 
Both of these are on sale in my Etsy shop as sample sale items, just to get the material costs back. Please take a look if you fancy one, the first is $6 (currently £4.10) and the second is $8 (£5.47 currently) each 
The next thing is, do I sell the pattern, or send it to a magazine, or keep it to myself once I’ve made a couple of perfect ones?
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Questions, questions, make some to sell in the shop as perfect ones maybe, and also try and sell it to a magazine, if that’s unsuccesful, put the pattern on Etsy?
If you send it to a magazine does that negate selling the pattern then? Because I would go for the money option, but then I am like that and I need a fabric budget.
Lovely shape! I don’t have a Kindle or a tablet or an I-phone or owt like that. It seems there are a lot of patterns for such gadget cosies out there, and many of them for free, but I might be wrong!
I’ve been doing the same sort of thing with for an iPad case, I’m on version 4 now and there are still a couple of tweaks needed, its never ending. Good luck with getting yours perfect and selling the pattern.