I've seen a ton of cool book covers, some required me to put Velcro on the back of my tablet. Others wanted me to use something called "sugru". So I made one for myself.
You can use this tutorial for any size tablet or eReader.
My tablet measures 10.1" x 6.9" x 0.34"
I wanted to get a book that would fit so I looked for something approximately 11" x 7.5" x 1".
I'm rather particular about which book I was using even though I was covering it with fabric. This book was so appropriate, not only was it a Southern cookbook but it was my for my birth year. $2.99 at Goodwill, can't beat that.
These are the supplies you'll need:
Book to fit your tablet or eReader
Fabric (1/2 yard should be more than enough)
Chipboard (if you have an old binder you can cut this out of the front and back. Otherwise look for "MatteBoard" in an art store)
Elastic
Crafting Glue (such as E600)
Batting (optional)
Xacto/Box cutter
Start by cutting the pages out of the book. You can use those for wrapping paper or other projects. I saved mine since it had some good recipes.
Open up the book and measure the fabric around the outside. Measure and cut an inch larger all the way around. Fold the extra inch of fabric to the inside of the book and glue it down. Give special care to your corners.
Measure a piece of fabric about and inch longer spine of the book and twice as wide. Center this on the inside of the spine and glue down. Take the top and bottom ends, fold them over and glue them under. You should have some overlap on either side of the spine.
Now take your chip board and cut 2 pieces the size of the front and back cover. Cut 2 pieces of batting the same size at the chip board. Then cut 2 pieces of fabric an inch larger around than the chip board.
Cut 4 equal pieces of elastic. Length depends on size of your tablet/eReader.
You are only attaching elastic to 1 of the inner pieces, this will be used on the inside back (right hand side) of the book.
Start with 1 set of inner cover pieces. Lay the fabric face down. Center the batting and then the chipboard on top of it. fold the edge around the same way you did with the outside of the book and glue them down. The edges of the elastic will come around to the back of the chip board.
After I had the fabric on I added the elastic to the corners. Make it go around the corners. I secured it to the chip board with staples.
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| I ended up having to redo the elastic and have it higher up to hold my tablet |
Repeat for the other inner cover but don't add elastic. You can add a shorter layer of fabric first to give yourself a pocket. (I sewed the 2 pieces of fabric together to make them a bit more secure but you don't have to).
Glue the inner pieces to the inside of the book. If you have wax paper put it down and put a heavy book on it to help the glue adhere securely.
You're done. Check out how cool your tablet/eReader looks in it's new cover.
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| You can barely tell there is a pocket on the left side. |
2 comments:
That came out great! Love the idea. So, how do you like the new tablet? I have been meaning to ask you that.
I'm loving it.
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