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August 20, 2008

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Etch A Sketch laptop bag may inspire shaking

Posted Aug. 20, ’08, 8:15 AM PT by Kate Marshall
Category | Geekery

etch a sketch bag original.jpgSo for the past several months, I’ve been using a Levenger tote bag to, well, tote my laptop around (30-percent-off-sale, whoo!) But now I see this handmade case and suddenly, I want a laptop bag that looks like an Etch A Sketch too!

Designer Betz White recently made this iBook cozy for her brother’s birthday, dubbing it the “Rog-A-Sketch.” The bag is 100 percent wool felt and features Velcro closures, button knobs that turn (but sadly don’t etch any sketches) and black thread stitched onto silver felt to simulate the original Etch A Sketch’s famous screen. White designed the Rog-A-Sketch’s dimensions around her brother’s iBook:

The back is about 1/4” bigger in length and width than his laptop. (I used an 1/8” seam allowance) The bottom flap is the same with about 1” added to accommodate the thickness of the laptop. The top flap is the same as the back with 2” extra top to bottom since it has the extra overlap in the front. The side flaps are long enough to overlap an inch in the middle when it’s all folded up.

No word on whether this might ever show up on Etsy but in the meantime, I’m going to bug some of my more creative relatives for a while. You know, the ones who can actually sew and such.

[Via technabob]


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