Something that kept me occupied

I had some left over 1/4 triangle charm squares from the table runner project and wanted to do something with them.  It was suggested I make a heat pad to go with the table runner, but I decided that I wanted to make something for me instead.  I had purchased a Sony Touch eBook Reader almost 12 months ago, with a cover.  I wanted to make a padded sleeve for it too, but had never managed to get to it.  So I when I looked at the leftover charms and the left over brown bubble strips, I thought...maybe?

So I measured the eBook reader, this time remembering to add in the seam allowance! The last thing I tried to free form I forgot about the seam allowance, so it was too small for what I wanted. Anyway, I digress.  I made 2 panels sewing two of the charm squares together then dividing them with a strip of the brown bubbles. I then added a strip of the brown bubbles to either side.  I think I did the sewing together in a round about way, and I am sure there would be a simpler and faster way of doing it.  I then ironed on the pellon and sewed up the final side seam.

Next bit was a little disaster, I didn't quite get the positioning right when I sewed the bottom seam.  Then I thought I'd square the corners off, BEFORE Looking to see if it had worked properly. As you can imaging it wasn't sitting properly and was off centre to boot! So I spent some time unpicking seams and lamenting that I had cut the corners off. So I turned it up the other way and pinned the seam straight and anchored the rest of it before I started sewing again.  I then had to figure out out to fix the top bit, so I just squared it off and added a boarder piece of the brown bubbles.

I tested that the eBook reader still fit inside.  How to close it? Press studs? Velcro? Buttons? I decided on folding in one side and attaching 3 different coloured ribbons in slightly varying lengths to wrap around the entire thing. I then added beads on the ends to help anchor them when wrapped around.  The pic below if the finished product, with the eBook inside, but I took the pic before I added the beads.