Silver Case

Woei’s Christmas present is a custom-sized pouch to hold the Playstation Portable PSP his stewardess girlfriend gave him.

I made it out of 400denier Cordura in a MARPAT pattern. The inner lining is made from a 1951 aviator’s escape-and-evasion silk map.

The purple zipper is a little highlight to remind you of the blue led’s favored by the sony PSP.

Lessons learned? Is there some sort of glue that I can seal the edge of silk with? It wants to unravel at all costs. This map is not pure silk. When I burn it, it leaves some plastic turd-blob.

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UPDATE: I have a rolled or double hemmer foot in my collection. It feeds in the fabric, does a double roll, and sews it into a flat, neat hem. I tried it once, in the store, and it was a disaster. The machine was too fast, I didn’t feed it properly, and it was a joke. The lady demoed it effortlessly. But I checked tonight and found some online instructions. After a couple tries on the very fine, weak silk evasion maps, I know have the basic idea of it, and can do a passable job. Another couple meters of it, and I’ll be fine. So what this means is I can put a strong, tidy hem into my pieces of silk, which means no more ravelling, and no need to glue or do anything else obscene. wheee!

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