We have been tinkering with an iPad cover made from recycled sails for some time.   Many others on the market and we have spent some time researching what works best with sailcloth and we have finally come up with the following.   Still R&D, but almost there.   Colour options will follow.

Features that make it work well are as follows:  envelope opening, safer, secure, just looks better, doesn’t let any bits in with the precious ipad.  Reclaimed padding inside, small velcro fastening, covered with tag to hide stictching and ends (nice finish), soft lining and nothing inside to scratch surface.

We are making all sorts of products now, such as this Swing Chair cover.

Made for a lady who owns a 1930s swing chair and was fed up with the green canvas that rots, falls off and doesn’t look that good.   She loves it and we are very pleased, we think it looks classy, although we are a little bias.   More work coming in for gate covers and other different items.  Busy times More photos in the Wightsails in the Wild gallery.

This is not our first product, but it is the first sail cloth we have sewn together and made anything from that is usable.

I needed a dinghy cover and we had some very old sails that we thought we could experiment on.   It was so good I thought I would try and spray paint a quick logo on it so all at the dinghy park would be able to see.    All a bit of fun, but it has taught us a few things already.   It is down at the Folly Dinghy Park, on the Medina river, Isle of Wight.  Incidentally, the Folly Inn (pub next door) is one of the best pubs on the Island and can be access by boat or by land.

It was a lovely day to start chopping up sails.   We pulled out the old machine and begun experimenting with the poorest sails.   But what to make?  We decided to start small and make a dinghy cover    I actually needed one and it would also act as a good advertisement down at the dinghy park.   Just a one off as an experimental product because as we began we realised the amount of sail cloth needed to build what is a very large sail cloth sleeping bag.

I am loving this and it makes a change from trying to stow a huge sail whilst being lashed by sea and having cold sea water trickle down your neck.

Lessons already learnt?!   We need a new machine (we sort of guessed this anyway), we need a nice high table, we are getting to love sails (weirdos), and we believe we have a knack for this    Pictures to follow as now complete and on the dinghy, just waiting for another sunny day.