I’m Italian: sorry for my bad english !!!
Hello everybody !
I improvised this pattern for my own Kindle 6” but I think it would be useful for the owners of pads, palmtops or whatever you want to close and protect in a 50’s style bag like this !
Let’s start:
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You’ll first need two rectangular surfaces: start with chain stitches and make a chain that is one cm longer than the short side of your Kindle/Pad/Whatever. Then point your crochet in the second chain stitch and start the first line with single crochets. At the end of the line, turn around and make a chain stitch before you start again with the second line. Keep doing this way since the surface of the K/P/W is covered and do it again to get two.
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To make the triangle that will close the bag: Pick one of the rectangular surfaces and make a line of single crochet on the long side of it. The second line is: one sc, two chain st., one sc, two chain st. At the end of the line, turn and start with a sc pointing the crochet in the hole under the two chain st. and start again: two chains, one sc. This way the work will get narrower and you’ll get a triangle. The angle of this triangle will be the button-hole, so make it with five chain stitches (the botton I used was quite big, but measure it on your own …) and “cover” them pointing the crochet in the hole and making sc all around this little arch.
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Four rings to support the angles of the K/P/W and keep it on: make a 30 st. chain and point the crochet in the first chain to create a ring. One round with sc and the ring is ready ! Make four of them.
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Sewing time: first sew the four rings inside one of the big rectangles as you can see in the second picture I posted. Then sew the two rectangles along the long side. Finally sew the button outside the bag and … You got it !