As of last year my offspring have taken on the habit of asking for a hand made gift from me at party occasions. How cool is that?

So, as we'll be celebrating a certain someone's 7th birthday this summer, she asked me, in keeping with this new tradition, to make her a pocket book.

Ever since I made this one to store my little hexagons, she's been declaring that it would be so useful if she owned one of her own. As it would make the perfect storage for her little scraps and bits of paper. And believe me, she has many of those. My kids are genuine gatherers at heart. So I agreed. It would be a great way to store away all that junk that makes her desk overflow and that makes vacuuming rather a precarious thing to do.

So I set to work and I made her this version...

I hunted down some of favorite pieces of fabric in my scrap basket. Keeping the color palette as soft yet as varied as I could.

The pocket book is a bit bigger than the original one in order to accommodate as much of her scraps of possible. And I placed a bit of cream colored lace on the side to soften up the border between the hexies and the background fabric. But just like the original it has a inner layer of soft flannel to make it a bit firmer but to keep it soft to the touch as well. For easy tying I used a special bit of dotted fabric cord by La Droguerie. It's a gorgeous pale blue-lilac. Inside there is a lining with on the left hand side six smaller pockets and on the right hand side two larger pockets (large enough to hold cards and envelopes).

And just to add some interest, down in the corner a little label from that wonderful Puti de Pomme fabric...

It will be a hit. I'm so sur of that. Because if she doesn't like it then I'll keep it all to myself. Ah.... as if that would even be possible...