Art Folder for my Grandson

I came up with this idea for a Christmas present for my drawing/writing grandson.
I had some Moleskin small blank books I got on a great sale so I thought I could just measure and sew up a useful way to carry the book and a few pens or pencils.

I also like to draw in small books so I tried to be careful not to add bulk or unnecessary seams on the covering of the book itself. 

New Pencil Case

I love pink!

I love it already.  It is just the size to hold my random selection of Derwent Inktense Pencil Crayons.  I smile when I see it.

Pen case for my Drawing Pens

I love to draw and fill my spare time with sketching and doodling.  I love the Micron Pens I have but keeping them with me is a bit tricky.  If you look in the first picture you will see the red biscuit box that I keep coloured pens in.  I love it.  And its easy to stash in a bag for travel in my house or car.

I used the 'quilt as you go' technique to quilt a 14 by 9 piece of fabric to work with. The end of the red container is 2 1/4" in diameter so I drew that size circle and added a generous 1/4" seam allowance...

Lots of thick seams later I added some silk lace I have been saving and sewed it all together.

Small Clicky Purses

We were driving around Inglewood, recently, and my DH stopped in front of the yarn store called Stash, heehee.  (He remembered it being a coffee shop - wow when was that??)  He patiently waited while I perused the place.  I don't actually need any yarn but they had a lovely set of bamboo needles that I had to take home and these small purse clasps.  Sooo, cute.

I hand sewed the fabric bag to the metal through the holes provided.  Then I decided that my stitching didn't look very neat so I inserted a piece of coordinating ribbon to cover the messy bit. (with Aleene's glue) it worked like a charm.

Ridiculous!! All I'm going to say.

Pencil Case for my drawing pens

Pencil cases used to be something that we got new at the beginning of the school year.  Not whole wardrobes, just a pencil case...

I have been stepping up the amount of drawing I have been doing lately as well as observing the cool pencil cases I see on the internet.  I think I need one of those now.  So after a little pattern drawing, away I went.

You can see that I prequilted the sides and ends.  The side piece has stripey fabric put on to both ends like binding on a quilt.

Zipper in and ends trimmed.  I left the seams raw with zigzag overedge stitching to keep them from fraying.