It’s already the second term of school so it’s kind of late to make this now 
This is more of a back to school project and something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. R’s last pencil case (also hand made) is already grubby and dirty. It’s still holding up well but I made it a little too small length wise and she has to struggle sometimes to get her pencils out.
Alright, I don’t really need an excuse to make anything for the girls. But I found this pencil case tutorial from Glue Gun Annie which was really easy and I made two!
I used fabrics bought from my last trip to Japan. The one on the left has a ballet theme, the one on the right is from November books by Push Pin. R chose it because she loves mermaids. It was on clearance for 300 Yen/m!
R originally wanted a light pink lining. But seeing what she did to her last pencil case, it would turn grubby in a couple of days. So I convinced her to use a more practical fabric This was taken last night. Sewing in her name label inside the pencil case.
Close up of the handmade label which Shelley and I found at the textile centre. It’s from a roll of printed linen ribbon with a few varying designs on the same roll.
I used a zipper from Daiso. It’s about 1 yard long and comes with 3 heart shape zipper pulls. That’s 3 different pencil cases with a $2 zip! Will be making one for myself next!
I love the boxy structure of the pencil case. And the zips pulled down halfway to the side means easy access for everything in it. Love it!
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Yay, they look so cute!! I’m glad the tutorial was easy to follow.
Thanks Annie for the tutorial! I received lots of compliments on the pencil cases.
Hihi, I came by this blog from your free sewing pattern blog, which in turn was featured on How About Orange today. Love your blog and the items you make!
Hi Gin! Thanks for letting me know
Gotta go check it out now. Thanks for liking my stuff too 
Hi, which textile centre did you get the label? It’s so cute!! How to get the name label too? Thanks for your answers:)
Hi Min, I bought it from Sin Mui Heng which is on the ground floor of the textile centre at Sultan Rd. They have a map on their website You can buy it by the metre or the entire roll. There are other designs too!
Oh and for the nametag, it was a iron on name tag tape that I bought from Daiso. Meant for writing on with a marker, but I used alphabet rubber stamps with a fabric stamp pad, and I sewed it on instead of iron on as I find the iron on patches tend to fall off after a while.
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Hey is the pencil cases for sale? Please email me!
Hi Trini, Sorry they are not for sale at the moment. If I find time to “go into production” I might set up an Etsy store to sell them.
This looks so cool i would love to try it where is the tutorial could someone send me a link
thanks