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Ahh back to school time- the smell of new pencils & notebooks and the crowds of crazed parents wandering through Target looking for the ONE item that does not exist, but is yet on the supply list.

Kid #1 is a huge Pokémon fan (it comes with the age) and he needed a pencil case for school. So like all good crafty types instead of buying a $3.00 plastic pencil case I spent closer to $10 in supplies & about $30 in labor costs to make him one.

The pattern & tutorial for the bag comes via Very Berry Handmade.

Using the zipper foot.
More playing with the zipper foot. No matter how much sewing I’ve done zippers scare me.  It looks like maybe I didn’t mess up the zipper.

Getting ready to turn it out.

 

And look- I’ve included some handy dandy links for buying Pokémon fabric straight from Amazon (and yes if you click & buy I get a few pennies