Pencil Pouches

You might remember that over the last few months, I stitched two Dropcloth Pencil samplers!

All along, they were planned as pencil pouches for our granddaughters, to be gifted at Christmas. The five year old chose her own thread colors without realizing that's what she was doing. Her 13 year old sister shared her favorite colors with me via text, "I love lavender, cyan, and any shade of blue." So finally, yesterday, I made time to make the pair of samplers into actually pencil pouches.

I thought it would be fun to orient the pencils differently for the two pouches. Do you have a favorite way?

I kinda wish I'd followed Rebecca's method of adding zipper taps to each zipper, but at the time I chose to do without. Finished, the pouches measure about 4.5" tall by 9" wide. And yes, I'll be purchasing new colored pencils so the girls can fill up their pouches pronto.