My TARDIS Laptop Case

Sometime during the end of first semester last year, my old, withered laptop, Spudly, decided to have a heart attack. His death was slow and agonizing, but eventually, he closed his browser for the last time and died. (along with all my old assignments from my creative writing course *tear*)

I mourned his loss for a sold two days before setting out for a new laptop. And I found him. (Laptops...they seem to be all male for me.) My very own TARDIS. Blue, fun-sized, and definitely much, much bigger on the inside! I ordered him from the Dell shop and he arrived at my house, all covered in super-fun bubble wrap and cardboard. (For future reference, keep the cardboard. You never know when it might come in handy)

My new TARDIS didn't, however, come with a case. So...I made him one.

My TARDIS TARDIS case 

(The second "TARDIS" refers to the laptop...the first is the design...TARDIS TARDIS...)

Things You Will Need 
...to make this yourself...

1. Some blue material (twice the area of your TARDIS, and then some more for the fun-flap)
2. Some different material for lining (I think I used the same material...I'd go and find out but...)
3. Some pretty material for edging the fun-flap
4. Some white material for the windows and sign
5. Some different-different material for the back, if you want a "Bad Wolf" sign on yours like I did
6. White and blue thread
7. Scissors
8. Sharpie/Embroidery skills (I lacked the second, so used the first)
9. Sewing machine
10. Squishy padding (I chose foam)
11. Velcro

Instructions
(If I remember them correctly, and let's face it, I probably don't...)

1. Cut your blue material into 3 pieces. One for the front, one for the back, and one for the fun-flap (You could probably keep it to two if you figure out what shape a piece that involves both back and fun-flap should look like)
2. Cut your squishy padding and lining material in a similar fashion (you don't need squishy padding for the fun-flap, only blue material and lining)
3. Cut out your windows and your sign out of your white material
4. Cut your "Bad Wolf" sign, if you're using one (mine was from a piece of material given to me as a gift from my little toddler-students from way back. Cuteness in the TARDIS!)
5. Cut your pretty material for the edging of your fun flap (if I recall, mine was just a rectangle, big enough to go from one end to the other)
6. Draw/sew your door handle/dividing-door-bit on your 'front' piece of blue material
7. Pin your front and back material pieces to each of their corresponding lining and squishy padding pieces (make sure squishy is in the middle)
8. Sew the bits you just pinned
9. Pin you fun-flap pieces together, wrong side up, with the pretty material folded in half in the middle of the other two pieces)
10. Sew the bits you just pinned
11. Pin and sew one side of your velcro to your fun-flap, lining side up (go around about the middle)
12. Write both your "Bad Wolf" message and your "Police Box" message on their respective pieces of material with your Sharpie (or embroider them if you have the skillz)
13. Draw or sew your window bars on your windows (Make sure you complete these steps before you sew them onto the rest of the TARDIS, otherwise you will get wonky, squishy-padding writing)
NOTE: Don't forget to fold your edges over so you don't get bare seems (or bear seems, ROAR!)
14. Pin and sew the windows, the "Police Box" sign and the "Bad Wolf" sign (they make a nice embossed effect with the squishy-padding)
15. Pin all three pieces (front, back and fun-flap), now adorned with signs, windows and velcro, together, wrong side up
16. Sew what you have just pinned, leaving a little gap at the top of your 'front/back' join
17. Fold over that gap on the 'front' side to get rid of that super-nasty bare seam and sew the pooper down! (this is a good reason why you should have blue thread...although, your fun-flap will cover it anyway, so don't be toooo worried if you only have white)
18. Mark the spot where your fun-flap velcro meets your front side
19. Pin and sew the second piece of velcro to the front side
20. Have a cup of tea and congratulate yourself!

Voila! Instant TARDIS!

Mine went completely by trial and error, involved quite a bit of swearing but was worth the trouble! It was my first adventure on my new sewing machine, and without a pattern or a clue, I think it turned out quite nicely!