Little pouches

So the other day I was chatting with my mom when she pulled out her kindle from her purse.  It had no case!  You see, about a month ago her old kindle went totally crazy... kept resetting itself, trying to turn on, and then repeating.  I chatted with Amazon about it and they said it was done and that the case it was in, which had metal clips to hold it in, could have been the culprit.  Needless to say, she was very upset.  Well I got another kindle for her and set it up.  Since her old case was to blame for the problem she was not going to use it.  I didn't realize that for weeks she had been toting it around with nothing.  So the other night I saw this tutorial for an e-reader case on Sew Crafty Jess.  I immediately thought I can make that.  So I grabbed some fabric and went to work, changing it just a little from a pocket on the pouch to just a decorative strip.  And I added some extra quilting.

Yes, I know that my band across is not even.  I really don't know how that happened (I am guessing it got crooked when I turned it).  I did some pebble quilting on the band, I have been wanting to try it out.

I did some free motion squiggles across the case that follow the squiggles in the fabric.  I pulled a simple button out of my jar to close it up with.

And the reason I chose green... to match her bag of course.  Well, at least it goes with this bag.  

I also whipped up a couple little mini pouches to send out to my 2.5" postage stamp charm swap partners.  I joined in over at The Curious Quilter.  We are swapping 100 different 2.5" charms.  I have 2 stacks to swap and I am super excited to see what fabrics I will get from my partners.  

One has free motion squiggles, the other straight line quilting in the ditch.

I lined them with one of my favorite polka-dot prints.  

My original plan was to make pouches to put my charms in, but silly me didn't think about how large a stack of 100 2.5" charms are.  Oh well, I hope they like them anyway.  

Today I am linking up to Linky Party Tuesday at Quilting By the River and to Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story.