I got some lovely happy mail today, all the way from my feisty friend Oma Linda waaaaay over in Albuquerque, isn’t this a fab valentine?
Now I was doing my good service for the elderly today, when I took my gran to get an iPad. This is her very first computer at the grand old age of 87! We have often had conversations in the past 5 years or so about how she regretted not going with my Uncle Bill (her brother) when he went to the Silver Surfers sessions at the library in the late ’90s after his wife died. At the time she feared it would be just another thing that could go wrong, and it would take up space, and it might not catch on anyway… Now, of course, every time she watches a cooking program on TV, instead of the recipes being available on Ceefax or Teletext, they’re all online, as, I think, are the further info sections for most of the programs she watches. Anyway, she has macular degeneration, and thought that a keyboard would be too hard for her to see easily, so she had ruled out all the advancing things such as laptops, however when we were down at mum and dad for my dad and aunt’s joint birthdays, she was sitting beside my aunt, who had got an iPad for Christmas. They had a whale of a time sitting on the sofa playing with this, and finally my gran had found a computer she could live with. First things first, on the Monday she got straight on to Virgin about hooking her up with broadband, and they duly came last week to install it. Alas, last Thursday when we were meant to go, it snowed, so we had postponed until today (since my car was in the garage for the last few days being encouraged to bear up). It’s all home and settled now, but unfortunately the authentication server didn’t feel like playing this evening, so she’s going to get her neighbour to have a shot at it tomorrow.
Entirely unrelated to this, my dad also decided that he just had to spend his birthday money on an iPad too – fear not folks, if you have relatives that work for Apple, my dad is working singlehandedly to keep them in a job, what with the iPhone, iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac (ahem!) You may also recall that I gave him a Kindle for his birthday (you know, he needed another gadget ;o) ) so he requested that he get a double-decker cover for these for when he’s travelling, and here it is:
The front pocket will hold the Kindle, plus a cable or two I think, and the main pocket will hold the iPad. The flap covers both openings so they both, hopefully, remain secure. I will have to make gran a cover now, but I think I’m fairly safe in the assumption that she can live with a single decker one, unless she wants a front pocket for her CD player that she listens to her books on…
Linking up to TGIFF and Sew And Tell Friday (buttons in the side bar :o) )
The double deck cover is great. And I bet your Gran is going to have quite a lot of fun with her iPad.
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Love that cover–fabric/print is great! Good luck to your Gran on figuring it out. My mom, who is 80, does ok with her computer but my daughters are constantly being called over to help her "fix" it because it's "broken". LOL Still, I think Apple products, esp the iPad, will be easier for her to learn than what my mom has.
A double decker cover, that is just brilliant. Oh, and Go go gadget gran!!
I`m really surprised you have a feisty friend Katy – I thought she was more likely to be shy and retiring *wink*. Love the Valentine and your ipad, kindle covers…and love your non-geeky techno gran.
Ooh, how lucky your dad can order custom gadget cases from you! Is he a bird watcher, too?
good on yer gran – i'm sure she'll have a whale of a time on the ipad! love the cover too – he won't lose that in a hurry!
Fiesty is it??????
Glad you like your stilleto Valentoonie luv.
I know I won't see you until this evening, but the new cover looks fab. Good for you for your Help the Aged stuff too.
Dad XXX
What a great Gran, she is really trying to keep up with all this High tec stuff. I do hope she enjoys it. What a gadget man your dad is. May be you will need more decks, who knows?
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Kay
Oooh way to go gran. Love the double decker cover. The fabric design is really pretty.
Good for your gran! Still cant convince mine that the internet is not a gateway to evil… lol
so proud of you, Katy, your concern to elderly need's, wonderful effort! by the way, those layering of fabric makes me have an association on Japanese traditional way of packing cloth.
I am sure gran will have a lot of fun with her iPad. I'm 72 and getting ready to get an imac the all in one thing. I'm 72 and hope I will know how to do it. I've never had anything Apple before.
I love the covers you made for your Dad and Gran. The birds are cute!!
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from
Honeypot Lane
Oh good grief, I told you I was 72 twice. I plead innocent to being senile! :o) I'm rushing this morning powers going out in an hour.
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Iris
First off, the card from Linda is beautiful. She made me one too but being an unthinking dolt I forgot to take a photo of it. The double decker cover is delightful. I love the fabric, very eye catching. If you make one for your gran don't forget to post a picture. Have a wonderful weekend. Hugs
Bravo on the Senior Citizen care work and on the iPad cover for Dad – just don't use the same fabric for Gran's 'cos I'd hate them to get mixed up when they are sharing a couch, each tapping and pinching and sweeping on their respective screens 🙂
LoL,
Mum
xxx
That is a beautiful Valentine. Hooray for your gran and her new IPad… we're still fighting the urge to get one.
Adore the gadget case! That fabric is fab.
I love the fabric you used!
Yay for Gran! That's so cool!
And I totally think you should sell the 2 in 1 cover as a pattern! I've never seen anything like it! It looks fab!
That fabric is gorgeous! Loving the whole black, white & orange combo at the moment. You have also reminded me that my poor Kindle is still coverless after all this time. Tsk tsk. Must get onto that. Thanks for linking up to TGIFF. 🙂
We're a family on a healthy diet of Apples too! Love the cover for your Dad.
Yay for gran! Love those covers. That orange fabric is awesome! Thanks for linking up to TGIFF!
Love it! Especially the bird/orange fabric!
My husband really wants an iPad. And I would really like to have a husband, not a zombie attached to a technical device! He's bad enough with his iPhone! I know him, and I know how he would be, and I just flat refuse.
Plus, that could buy AT LEAST 50 yards of good, not-on-sale fabric!!! No way! 🙂
You're so sweet to take your gran to get one, though. I think my grandma thinks she needs something like that, but she wouldn't know the first thing about turning it on! 🙂