So I made another thing today. A laptop sleeve, using this tutorial:
http://whipup.net/2007/12/16/tutorial-fabric-laptop-sleeve/

The tutorial was easy to follow, and it seemed like a quick project to me. I proved myself wrong. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever made! :) I drove down to the city this morning to buy bias tape (didn’t bother making it myself) and some batting. I got quilt batting, because that’s what the lady gave me, and I didn’t realize that I’d have to quilt it some.

After I realized that, I thought “well, that can’t be too hard” but it was, because the fabric didn’t stay still :) I got it acceptable at last. And then there was the velcro. I thought I had some in my stash, but all my stash was in Oslo :P I’d left my fabric etc here, because I don’t have a sewing machine in Oslo (yet) but I hadn’t thought of the velcro. So I had to drive down town to get some of that too. Luckily it went smoothly sewing that on.

Then came the next obstacle. The binding! I thought it was easy, but the fabric was so thick, so I had to fight with it to sew the binding on. In the end, I finally managed to do it, but it wasn’t exactly as nice and straight as I’d wanted it.

The sewing of the corners went nice, I thought. And after finishing up, and going up to the computer again, I realized I had sewn the corners in the wrong way :) An hour more of tearing out stitches, and I finally managed to sew it correctly!

So this was the project where almost everything went wrong. Luckily it works well, it’s just a little bit tight around the computer. And the thick batting protects it well. So I guess I got what I wanted – something to protect the laptop when it’s just lying around.

And here’s the images! (this was before I’d found out about, and corrected the corners)

laptop sleeve mosaic