Pencil Case

The posts about things I sewed in the school holidays continues! Today, we are going to have a look at the pencil case that I made for Rachel. It matches her library bag with the awesome fabric that initially made her Nature Bag. 

It turns out that Sophie's pencil case for school is also made out of this same fabric (with different contrasts and lining). I didn't realize it until I was cutting it out and Sophie commented that it would be matching. Don't know why I never blogged it. Busy maybe?

Anyway, It's lined with some donation fabric that I've used to make skirts before and uses zips that I've horded from who knows where. Bags? Dresses? I dunno! I look at it now and realize that I put one of the zips in upside down, but can't figure out which one, and also can not be bothered to change it.

It actually took three tries to get the top zip in in the first place. I sewed it, thought I did it wrong, unpicked it, re sewed it, realized it was now wrong and the first way I had done it was actually correct! So then I unpicked it and sewed it a third time.

Moral of that story: don't second guess yourself. Trust your instincts; if you sewed it one way to start with, it was probably for good reason.

I know I haven't said anything about the fun dragonfly print yet, because I actually bought it for another project that I haven't finished yet. It was cut out waiting for ages, I finally started sewing it but it's still not finished. It's a secret present kind of project, so I need to sew it when it's intended recipient is not around. Tough call! I'm hoping to get to finishing it soon though.