Fun, easy-to-make SUPER BEAUTIFUL padded Kindle cover for under $7

Pretty, isn’t it? It wasn’t very hard to make: all it takes is some basic skills most of us learned in Kindergarten.

There is NO sewing required. Don’t get me wrong, I love to sew; over the years I’ve acquired several vintage Singers dating from 1916 through to 1962, though my favorite is a 1930 Model 101, which I’ve used to sew everything from clothing to upholstery and boat canvas. But I know not everyone has access to sewing machines and I wanted to keep this a strictly scissors and glue kitchen table project.

Step 1 All the components you will need:

1. Rubber cement: $1.79
2. One Poly (plastic) 2 Pocket folder: $1.99
3. One paper folder: $0.25
4. One sheet of ‘Foamy’ craft foam: $0.99
5. Four Command adhesive strips: $0.76 (out of a 16 pack)
6. One adequate size scrap of pretty fabric from the remnant bin: $0.99
7. Pencil, Scissors, Wax paper: (surely you have these around the house!)
8. One small piece of medium sandpaper: (I have much of this around my house)
9. One cup containing the hot caffeine beverage of your choice: Vital
10. One feline supervisor: Costly though not essential – likely to interfere at wrong times
11. A clean kitchen table: Priceless

While I am aware this collection of materials visually clash, in the end the only parts you’ll see will be one side of the poly folder and the fabric of your choosing. So long as you can fold the fabric over your Kindle with an inch border on the top, bottom and side, it’s big enough.

You could use any fabric from a pretty remnant to some faded denim cut from an old pair of jeans. Everything else shown here is structural and won’t show once the cover is completed. I recommend you read through all steps first before starting.

Note: I don’t specify any measurements because your Kindle may be a different model than mine, but the same process applies no matter the size. I could probably just trace the old one, but for demo purposes I’ll start fresh.

Comments

[ChrysN]

Nice!