It's the same as the one I made for myself, but without the pocket for earphones. The fabric is from the Botanica line by Art Gallery Fabrics with green lining fabric from my stash and a button from the button box. I love these green buttons because they have a wee sparkle in the middle - I'm fond of a small amount of bling in unexpected places. It has a layer of cotton wadding as well as I gather that iPhones are pretty delicate and prone to breaking if dropped. Poor Mat is dying to have one but an archaeologist's phone needs to be moderately robust so he's being sensible (so far!). Reminds me of one dig I did where Pete lost his phone and got someone else to call it and we all heard it ringing from in the spoil heap (big mound of sieved dirt). Not really iPhone territory...
Shelly was really taken with the idea of having a button closure on the cover, but I figured that fumbling with a button while your phone was ringing would just add to the stress of modern life so I did a fake button hole and put velcro underneath.
Sorry the photos for this are dreadful, so washed out! They don't do the fabric or the lovely pale green button justice. Must have been a bad day. I'm really keen to turn this into a wee tutorial so that people can do this themselves - there's lots for sale but I couldn't find a pattern myself when I looked and it'd be so handy to have the measurements out there for people to experiment with. I just have to figure out how to draft up the pattern and find somewhere to host it.
It is really really lovely in person! At home I had been keeping the phone plugged into my laptop, but now I keep it in its bag on the desk just to look good. :)
ReplyDeleteI found out about this company because they target land surveyors with cases for phones - Mat might be tempted by one of these:
http://www.otterbox.com/iphone-cases/
Paul uses the impact case because he drops his all the time, but maybe Mat wants the defender.
http://www.otterbox.com/iphone-cases/
The DEFENDER! Sorry, that word absolutely has to be said in all caps. I'm not sure if I should show him these or not - he's just bought a new phone and it might just be cruel and unusual punishment to even suggest he might be able to keep an iPhone safe.
ReplyDeletePoor Mat denied the best piece of fun around :)
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