Crayon Rollups {for Church}

Crayon Rollup

Like a lot of churches we have children's bulletins for the Worship services. It's full of fun enrichment activities for our little ones. We provide crayons for them in little ziploc bags, but as soon as I saw this tutorial Summerfield Quilts blog, I knew it was just what we needed for the crayons.

When I came across this perfect fabric for the project at JoAnn's it was time to get stitching.  The original tutorial I followed {the link is above} used a 22" length of fabric with room for 24 crayons. For these I cut it down to just 12 inches and still had room for a good variety of crayons.

All I needed was the decorative fabric, some fabric for the pocket, flannel for the middle, hair elastics and a button. A yard of the crayon fabric was enough to get seven crayon roll-ups out of it.

6" x 12" pieces cut out and read to piece together. The green strips have already been pressed in half.

Ready to be rolled up

From cutting to finish this took right about an hour or so.  Another quick & easy project.

All rolled up and ready to go.

It turned out so cute, I can hardly wait to finish the rest and see what the kids think of them.  For the complete tutorial click here.  After adjusting the height, these would be great for colored pencils and ink pens too. Wish I'd had these when my guys were little, perfect for keeping things contained.

May your day be greatly blessed!
Marcia
a.k.a. Little Pink Rose

A Chunck of a Pincushion

For as long as I've been sewing I've had these little tomato pincushions. There's this love hate relationship that I have with them. Pincushions are very helpful while sewing, but all the ones I've ever had or seen have been so light weight that I end up chasing them around the sewing room.

Tiny & pathetic tomato pin-cushion

With the lightest bump away they go. Then I was inspired....first by the cutest little chicken pincushion I stumbled across in a local quilt shop. Not only was it adorable, it had the weight I've been yearning for, it was filled with crushed walnut shells.  I snatched up a pattern to make an adorable chicken for my own sewing room. It still sits in my to-do pile.

But a few weeks ago,  this blog post from A Girl In Paradise came across my desk.  With just a couple of hours maybe less, I whipped together this chunk of a pin-cushion filled with walnut shells. 

The Chunk

Almost 2" thick

Big Chunk vs. tiny tomato
It's obvious who's winning this battle

I can already tell that there will be no hate for this pincushion, there's only lots and lots of love.  So quick, so easy and so very, very useful!!! Love it!!

Marcia,
a.k.a. Little Pink Rose