Finished e reader cases & a mini apple pie!

This evening it was way to windy to go walking,so it was off to the sewing room instead!

The end result is,is that the last two e reader cases are now done and ready to ship out to Melissa !

The mini pie :)  So there was this pie crust sitting in my fridge (I know,that is cheating,but sometimes I am just to tired to make everything from scratch) that needed to be used.  There are also apples sitting in the fruit basket looking all sweet and delicious ;)  Then there was the leftover streusel topping from a pie awhile back....

So I took the pie crust,a couple apples,the streusel topping,Carmel,my muffin tin,and a wide mouth jar ring,and this is what we ended up with!

Core and peel the apples,then chop up in smalish pieces.  Put them in a bowl with a couple tablespoons each,brown sugar,and white sugar,mix to coat thoroughly,next add about half of the carmel,set aside.  Roll out the pie crust,using the wide mouth jar ring cut out circles,carefully put the circles of crust into the muffin tin.  Spoon the apple mixture into the mini pie shells you just made in the muffin tin.  Top with the streusel topping,place in a 350 degree oven for 25-35 minutes.

Remove from oven and carefully take the mini pies out of the muffin tin and enjoy!  Be careful not to burn yourself by eating them before they cool off a bit!!

Remember September e reader case/covers

 This month over at Hopeful Threads the project was to make pillowcases and e reader case/covers for deployed troops.  As you know if you are a follower of my blog,Gil is a Marine,so this was a cause near and dear to my heart.  So of course I jumped in and joined the project,in an earlier post I showed 2 of the 6 pillowcases I made.

On to the e reader cases/covers  (all of these are for Kindle readers)

The first one for a Kindle 1 has a pocket to hold the kindle.

Number 2 is also for a Kindle 1 reader,all of the cases/covers that I made are a hands free design,not my own mind you,although I wish it were,because it is a genius idea!

Since I do not own an e reader,I had to use a pamphlet to show how this one will hold the e reader.

A side view of the above reader case,which is for a Kindle Fire.

Front view of the second Kindle Fire case,with the pre-amble printed on the fabric.

The back,or outside of the above case.  I thought that it would be fitting to use fabric with flames for the 2 Kindle Fire cases :)

Next up is the final one I was able to get finished,because I ran out of the elastic headbands that are used on each corner of the front to hold the e reader to the case.  There is also a strip on the back to hold the case closed when not in use.

Angle view of the above reader case,which is for a 3G Kindle reader.  What makes these reader cases stand up for hands free use is,chipboard inserted inside of the fabric!  After looking at a Lot of different designs I happened across this Tutorial pure genius!

(All five cases made so far,this is a view of the back or outside)
Although I did have to alter some of the measurements by an eighth of an inch to get the chipboard to fit properly (I even used my 1/4" foot too).  My plan was to make 2 of each case,so after I buy another package of headbands I will make up the last three.  Then they will all be on the way to My Friend Melissa and after that on to the troops :)