Caroline,
You are soooooo right about the machines bouncing around inside the cases. But even having the machine well packed didn't help this one. I think the bottom was in bad shape before they shipped it.
I've had an idea for the inside of the case top. I think I'm going to recover that with adds from JoAnns and Hancock fabrics. That should be fairly easy to do. And we got a lot of those adds floating around.
My wife did the yardage calculations when we first decided to do the machines too. She says you might get three cases out of a 60" yard, but it will be a tight squeeze. So far the original material we bought has covered three bottoms, one complete top and the ends of the second top. I screwed up cutting the last bottom and wasted the piece. I don't think we have enough for another case. But I haven't layed it out to measure it.
Here's another pic of the 404 case with a red fish on it to show the actual color of the maroon fabric. I was playing around with the little fleece fish and just put it there. It just stayed so I took a pic of it. The fleece fish is red red so you can see the difference.
I also used natural light with no flash this time.
Joe