Drawing is a passtime that’s very much liked in this house. With pencils, crayons and felt tip pens. Felt tip pens of which you can wash out the ink, just to be on the safe side. Before, all these utensils were kept together in a plastic bag. There was definitely some room for improvement. With the backpack theme still in mind, I knew I couldn’t go wrong with a dinosaur pen case.

I got the idea from this whale zipper pouch. But instead of a whale, I drew a t-rex head.

How to make a dinosaur pen case

What you need

• 2 sheets of green felt
• 1 zipper of about 12 cm
• Some scraps of black and white felt to make the eye and the nostril

How to make it

1. Take 1 sheet of green felt and cut it in 2, making sure that the top part is 2/3 high, and the bottom part 1/3.
   
2. Open the zipper.
3. place the right side of the smallest part of lt on the right side of the zipper.
   
4. Sew together with a zipper foot.
   
   Tip: To get past the zipper handle while sewing, you need to close your zipper. To easily do so, remove the zipper foot, close your zipper, and put the zipper foot back in place.
5. Put the right side of the larger part of filt on the right side of the zipper, and sew together.
6. Sew the parts of the seam that are not attached to each other with the zipper closed, and press.
7. Draw a dinosaur head on the wrong side of the felt, making sure that the zipper becomes the dinosaur’s mouth. Make sure to not draw right up to the edge of your felt, leave some space for seam allowance (1 cm is enough).
   
8. Open the zipper.
9. Put the right side of the 2nd sheet of felt on the right side of the zipper, and pin in place..
10. Sew both parts together on the line that you draw. Make sure that the zipper is open, otherwise you won’t be able to turn your pen case outside in.
11. Clip the seams..
    
12. Turn your pen case through the zipper opening.
13. Pin the nostril and the eye on the pen case, and attach by hand.
    

Finished!