GPS Pouch

イギリス生活必需品の一つはカーナビ。アメリカはどの道にも名前がついてて、交差点があるたびに道の名前の標識があるから自分がどこにいるかとか、どこで曲がるかとかわかりやすいけど、イギリスは（日本もそうだけど）道の名前の標識がほとんどないし、交差点がラウンドアバウトと呼ばれる円形交差点なので、行ったことのないところに行く時は、カーナビ必須。うちの車は2台ともカーナビ装備のようなしゃれた車ではないので、後付けのカーナビを使っています。

そんなカーナビのモニターを入れるポーチを作りました。

A good GPS is a must-have for living in England. Not very many streets have street name signs (even when they do, it's so hard to find) and with roundabout everywhere, I need a GPS to guide me whenever I go to a new place. Neither of our cars are fancy enough to have a built-in GPS, so we use Garmin, which has been a great life saver for us.

To protect the monitor when we are not using, I made a pouch for the GPS.

The materials are exactly the same as the removable steering wheel bag, lunch box tote, and the triangle coin case: 1000D Cordura, quilted lining, a little bit of mesh and fold-over elastic, #5 zipper, bit of a para cord, grosgrain ribbon, and of course, a Land Rover patch.

The mesh interior pocket is meant to keep the cord in.

I bound the raw edges with grosgrain ribbon but I ran out of the orange ribbon so the other side is bound with a black ribbon.

I initially made one with rounded corner but then it became too tight so this was actually my second version. Glad that I sucked it up and re-did it. I'm happy with the fit.

I finished the pouch with a para-cord zipper pull.

Man, the Cordura makes the project looks and feels so good (can you tell I'm not a Vera Bradley person?).