Wall Pocket

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This is the perfect place to stash your stuff. The best part? You get to decide how to design the pocket layout.

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What You Need

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A Note For Grown-Ups

This large-scale wall hanging is perfect for sewers who have made several projects. Help may be needed sewing on the pockets and turning the fabric good side out.

Getting Started

  1. 1. Fold the cotton fabric in half.
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  2. 2. Find the Wall Pocket pattern in the back of the book and use chalk to trace it onto the fabric one time.
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  3. 3. Pin the fabric layers together and cut out along the chalk lines. After cutting, you will have two pieces of fabric.
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Make the Pockets

  1. 1. Time to make the Wall Pocket pockets. There are three different pocket pattern sizes in the back of the book to choose from. Decide what sizes and how many of each kind of pocket you want. Once you decide what to do, trace the pocket patterns onto felt and cut them out.
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  2. 2. Arrange the pockets on one piece of fabric.
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  3. 3. Pin down the pockets in place and carefully take your fabric to the sewing machine.
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  4. 4. Starting at the top right corner, sew around three sides of each pocket. Be sure to leave the top of the pocket open! After sewing on a pocket, take the fabric off of the machine and cut the threads. Then, sew on the other pockets until they are all sewn onto the fabric. Trim all the loose threads.
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    TIP: When you are sewing around the pockets, keep the fabric as flat as possible on top of the needle plate. If you aren’t careful, the fabric will get bunched up under the presser foot and you might sew the wrong part of the fabric.

  5. 5. Lay out the fabric with the pockets and put the other piece of fabric on top of it with the good sides together. Pin around the edges of the fabric.
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  6. 6. With chalk, mark a 6-inch opening to start and stop sewing in the middle of a short end of the fabric. Start sewing at the starting point and sew all around the fabric until you get to the stop sewing mark.
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  7. 7. Clip away the corners of the fabric, being careful not to cut the stitches. Turn the fabric good side out through the opening.
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Make It Yours

Add the Tabs

  1. 1. Now it’s time to make the tabs so you can hang up your Wall Pocket. Trace the Wall Pocket Tab pattern onto felt three times. Cut out the tabs.
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  2. 2. Fold the tabs in half and pin them onto the top part of the Wall Pocket. Place one in the middle of the top edge and the others about an inch from each side edge.
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  3. 3. Find the opening in your Wall Pocket. Fold in the seam allowances at the opening and pin them closed.
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  4. 4. Topstitch the Wall Pocket all the way around the edge of the fabric. When you get to the tabs, reinforce the stitches by going back and forth over the tabs.
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  5. Hang up your Wall Pocket and fill it with your favorite things.
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