Sewing projects - a cute pencil case and another small quilt

I have a little girl with a birthday coming up so I made her a pencil case with glittery butterfly fabric!  I combined it with black fabric and added a black zipper on the front.  It is the first time that I successfully added tabs on the end of my zipper which makes a neater finish.  I added some new pencils and some funky pencil crayons that have multi coloured leads!  She is going to school this year and taking the bus with her siblings.  She has been waiting a long time for this year!!  

I finished another small quilt top which I worked on more than a month ago.  I added a polyester blanket for batting and a dark green polyester cotton backer which I also used to create the binding.  I like using this technique because it is fool proof!!  I managed my corners better this time around as well so I am improving!!  It measures 35" x 46".  It will be headed to the Linus Project when they are accepting quilts again.  

Therese

Slow Stitching - last buildings on my house panel

This is the last structure on my house panel.  I chose two different blocks of fabric and stitched them up to look like apartment buildings.  It worked very well that they had squares on them.  I have three roofs which indicates that there is a building hiding behind the two that you can see in the fore ground.  All the roofs were done with running stitch each with a bit of a different pattern and texture.  I added Xs in the outer edges of the red building, outlined the windows in navy and then added french knots in between the windows as ornamentation on the building.  I stitched the door as a double door and later went in and added white stitching to some of the vertical and horizontal lines of the building.  I added a little peak in the roof line with white thread and added a little french knot in navy to repeat the ornamentation I had added to the building.  

For the brown building I stitched all the way around then added the little triangles just below the roof line in beige.  I added the four pane windows in navy along with the french knots as ornamentation also in navy.  The door's perimeter was stitched in navy and I used off white thread to add the line in the center to make it a double door.  I also added off white thread to several of the vertical and horizontal lines in the building to add texture and properly secure the pieces to the background.  

A totally fun project and it is good to have a large panel to build a quilt around.   Love how the background looks so much like clouds in the sky.  

Therese