I made the fabric for this pencil case using a brilliant idea that I found with the Colouricious Club videos on You Tube New Fabric from Old. Also, a lady called Jo Mcintosh has a pair of videos on
You Tube about Recycling Fabric Scraps.
Basically, you start with a backing fabric (canvas in this case, for strength). Then you randomly place scraps of fabric, leftovers swept or kept after projects are finished, onto the backing. Lay a piece of sheer fabric on top of this and machine sew everything down through the sheer. Bondaweb is useful for sticking the scraps down but it's possible to carefully move all to the sewing machine for the securing.
I added more scraps, glitter, some Angelina fibres (unfixed) and then another layer of organza. And then went spiral-mad with the embroidery foot.
I did not look for the right sized zip before I began and was too excited to wait until the shops opened the next day, so used this 20" one that I found in the button box. It was extremely awkward making it fit but now I am pleased that the pen I need at the very bottom cannot hide forever - because there isn't a bottom, just one long top with corners.
It's nice and big, 9"x6". Could encourage more pencil shopping, though.
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