Road Trip Case, number 3.

And I have plans to make more of these! Also mostly with Tula Pink fabric...

When I made my first Road Trip Case, it was unremarked upon in my house. When I was looking through examples of ones other people made online, my younger child demanded one, and as I was looking for another project to feature Heather Bailey's Up Parasol (the first being this pillow), I obliged. But making a thing for one child requires making a thing for the other one, right?

What was requested was red and purple. I couldn't manage that in my head, so I just used red as the jumping off point. I started this in August, and managed to get the outside quilted. I cut out a lot of pieces, but tossed many of them out when I found the yellow trees on Etsy a few weeks back, and of course Tula Pink's new collection Moon Shine was released in September, and I needed that red camping print. So, some of the pieces from the first version stayed, and maybe the chessboard doesn't make as much sense as it would have with the first fabric choice of the main inside bit...

Initially the whole background was going to be this black and red checkerboard, which now is only the inside of the flaps.

And then I lost the binding I'd cut, and my child chose the new one (Jenean Morrison's Sunday Paper from In My Room), which while looking great with the outside maybe doesn't sit right with the checkerboard either, but well, it's done. And after six weeks - seven? - maybe that's enough.

The Road Trip Case pattern is by Anna Graham of Noodlehead. My only notes on the pattern is that I cut my bias binding 2 3/4" wide - and sew it to the inside to keep from having to handstitch the other side to the vinyl, and I cut my vinyl 1" wider and longer on all sides, and trim it back once it's basted in place, since it's hard to line up the zipper.