A laptop sleeve

I browsed though the T-shirt book again (see this post about Generation T) a few days ago and decided to make a laptop sleeve. From two T-shirts. I hunted through my T-shirts and chose two I thought would be good for it and proceeded to cut.

One thing about this book: just about everything in it is sewn by hand. It isn't necessary to sew by hand (and in fact the book even offers additional tricky ways to connect pieces that involve no sewing at all) and initially I intended to sew this sleeve by machine. But there is a difference in how it looks when the stitches are visible and so ultimately I decided to go ahead and sew it by hand myself. I rather like how it looks, even though I can already see how I could have done better:

The front:

The back:

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In case you're wondering, what it says on the front is "Pismo Beach: delightfully tacky since 1946". Too true, too true! And also my birth year. Made for me.

You can see that the edges are ragged, something I could have avoided if I had cut more carefully, used a rotary cutter, used a cardboard pattern, for example. I could also have sewn it so that the seams were inside but this look has a certain charm.