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My youngest daughter is about to leave elementary school — a school our family has been a part of for the last 10 years. That makes it a sad time for me, because I've gotten to know the staff there fairly well. But it's a grand and growing time for my daughter. To mark this event, I decided to stitch something special as a going away gift for my daughter's teacher. My daughter had a great year, and I appreciate all her teacher has done to steer my daughter toward excellence.
Thus, the Apple Sampler. It's a cute way to give an apple to the teacher. I decided to finish it as a pencil cannister, complete with 15 colorful, sharp pencils. The Banjo Cloth does have a yellowish tinge to it, as shown in the first image. The lighting was different when I took a photo of the finished cannister, so it looks lighter in the image on the right. Banjo Cloth reminds me a lot of Fiddler's Cloth, only yellower. I changed the color of the letters in the sampler from a cream to a dusty purple so that the letters could "pop" off the Banjo Cloth. I used an empty Crystal Light container for the base of the pencil canister. I cut the fabric a bit larger than finished size, and just folded the top and bottom edges under. I stitched them into place with a simple running stitch in the same color as the apple's leaf. I then held the fabric in place on the starting edge, the top, and the bottom with double-sided tape. Then I sewed the ending/overlapping folded edge to the starting edge with a hidden whip stitch. Very simple! This is the second pencil cannister I've made. The first, Teacher's Pencil Holder, can be seen in my 1998 album. It's finished in a slightly different manner by adding ribbon to the top and bottom edges.
Design by Janet Miller
Fabric is a cotton/polyester/linen blend from
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