This past fall I decided I needed a theme for my school accessories. The number one reason was I had an ongoing issue of leaving my cup, clipboard or notebook somewhere around the school during the course of my travels with our K students.
I can not tell you how nice it was to find my misplaced items in my box after they had been misplaced. Everyone
knew that anything with the P on a zebra background was Mrs. Patel's. The second reason........ it was just tooo Cute not to do. I even managed to find zebra pens, pencils, binder clips and umbrella. Yeaa, sometimes its the little things in life!
One of my friends has a daughter thats just as crazy about the zebra print as I am. Since J is heading off to college this August, her mom ask me to make a few items to help with the lack of space they have in the dorm rooms. Deb found a comforter set in the zebra print. I had already made her 2 small square black fabric memo boards with zebra ribbon to coordinate with the comforter. Then I got my embroidery machine. It is so much fun! I can do so many cool things with it. I recently discovered that I can do applique designs too. This is what I came up with, a zebra circle applique with a J in it.
Since the comforter set is a zebra print all over, I thought this bed caddy would stand out more if it was black with just a tad of zebra on it.
It has a total of 6 pockets to hold all those essentials like her phone, ipod, a book, tissues and such. I actually sewed a gripper pad to it to tuck in between the sheets to ensure that it would be snug. One more way I thought we can give J some more storage was to make this chair caddy to keep some school supplies off the floor desk so she can work. I did the same design so that we would not be on zebra overload.
If you have ever been in a college dorm room, you know they must be very creative to find space to store everything. I think this will be very much appreciated by any college bound student. I actually think I need to make one for each of my boys...... hmmm, maybe you will see those in the coming months.
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This is great! I've been living on campus for...going on six years now! (But I only lived in the "typical dorm room" for about two years. Since then, I've lived in an apartment in the building (I'm on staff) but it still could use creative storage. I think I'm going to have to make myself one of these chair covers! My mom actually made something like this for my sister's first grade classroom...don't know why I haven't done this yet for my desk chair!
ReplyDeleteThe gifts look great and she should looove them! :)
Found you on hoo's got talent? at Night Owl Crafting!
Very cute!! Thanks for linking @Creative Itch's "Sew Cute Tuesday"!
ReplyDeletereally lovely gift and great 'to college' idea.
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What a fabulous idea! I need to do this with my stuff before the school year starts! Thanks for linking up to Hoo's got talent!
ReplyDeleteReally cool idea so many things you can do to match with it and not be "overly" animal. Wonder if they make a koala print lol
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