i'm going to vegas next week. dennis the menace is having heart surgery, which will hopefully fix the faulty valve that sent him to the ER a few years back. please keep your fingers crossed for him!
i'm taking my macbook with me. it's the first time i'm travelling with it & i need a sleeve. as i'm currently broke from buying a "new" car (2007 RAV4 = love) i decided to make my own.
i looked at various patterns, but it was the DIY instructions by sambot.com that caught my eye, plus sambot is damn entertaining.
i used a leg from an old pair of jeans plus some orange batik fabric i bought at britex maybe 7 years ago that i never did find a use for.
this was a quick & dirty project that i needed to get done ASAP, so i didn't totally follow sam bot's instructions. it's not lined with cushiony soft sweatshirt fabric, i handsewed sewed a cuff over the edge to give the outside some style & to show off the vintage bakelite buttons from iowa, i did not take the time to use the bespoke method for sewing buttons, etc. etc.
but i really like how it turned out, especially since it only took me about an hour or so to put together on the fly.
i'd like to say that i will probably make another one later on, something a little more refined with a proper write-up for the instructions, but i doubt it.
then again, you never know.
