Zakka Style Pencil Pouch

To Do First


May already! Time for a new list - or at least an updated list. I am going to try and be realistic this month - thank goodness for 31 days!

• Zakka Style Sew Along (ZSSA) weeks 5-9
• patchwork pencil pouch
• itty bitty quilt block magnets
• raincloud mug rug
• messenger bag
• zakka block quilt
• Quilt Club Australia (QCA)
• May Bee block - scrappy disappearing 9 patch
• Handmade swap - to a partner due June 30th
• 'Mystery' quilt - to add borders, baste and quilt
• 'Katie Jump Kites' quilt - to finish cutting the rectangles
• 'Fussy Fairytales' quilt - to SLQ shadowing the ditch and windows. Then add some hand quilting around the blocks and peek-a-boo border pictures.

Yesterday I spent 3 hours on my hands, knees and butt basting this huge 'Fussy Fairytales' quilt featuring Heather Ross' Far Far Away 2 & 3 prints. The quilt top was actually put together by my talented mum and she modified Kate Conklin's pattern by substituting 1/4" flat solid window borders with a folded and floating version. 

We had planned on making one quilt each. But before I could even start mine, she had gone home and whipped hers up in a matter of 2 days! Then she phoned me and asked if I wouldn't mind cutting up some more fabric and sending it up to her via the post. I couldn't be bothered cutting from the stash again and so I cannibalised my precuts and sent them all up. This then made her version much wider and longer too.


I am no longer going to try and make another version of this quilt but I will finish my mum's version - which is adorable. So I have pieced a simple back and will use some straight line quilting to shadow the ditch. Then I am going to try my hand at hand quilting using Kate Conklin's tutorial.


Zakka Pencil Case

This was a lovely little project and I can see why some of the other people in the Sew-Along have made more than one version. In fact I made more than one version myself.

I stuck with my Far Far Away fabrics and made use of their cute selvedges. I used the op-shop linen from the Sewing Kit and some of the leftover cotton prints from it too. I pieced the back because I did not have enough linen and I wanted to use up a nice panel of FFA.

I ended up using leftover 21/2" strips of batting and spray adhesive. With this extra buffering they are perfect for my rotary cutters. 

There are some really, I mean really, cute versions of these pencil cases on the Flickr group if you are interested to see the variety.


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