I wanted to share with you an easy tutorial for making a wall pocket from an embroidery hoop. The pocket pictured below is one that I made for my daughter for Christmas. This will hang above her sewing machine because it matches some other accessories I have made for her. Tomorrow I will show you something else I made for her sewing machine that matches. In the meantime, here is the tutorial.
This cute little pocket is quite easy to make and requires no sewing. I will probably tuck a few needles or something along those lines inside before I wrap it up. To show you how it works, I stuck a pattern inside the pocket.
I first saw the idea here, but wanted to try something no-sew that worked for the size hoop I had.
When we went to a yard sale well over a month ago, I picked up three embroidery hoop kits for 25 cents each. I knew I would never make the designs shown, but I thought that it was a great deal for the embroidery hoops and supplies.
The materials needed to make a wall pocket are an embroidery hoop, quilt batting, and 2 pieces of fabric. You will also need scissors and a ruler of some type.
I used the circle piece of fabric that came with the kits as a template. My hoop was 10 inches in diameter, and I cut my circles at 14 inches each. However, I recommend simply adding 4 inches to the diameter of your embroidery hoop and cut out two circles accordingly.
Want an even easier method? Just make sure you have two pieces of fabric and a piece of batting that are several inches larger than your embroidery hoop. That’s easy enough, right?
Next, take one piece of fabric and fold it in half. I recommend ironing your fabric (both pieces) so that it is nice and smooth.
Then, layer everything in this order: bottom piece of embroidery hoop (without the screw), the batting, the unfolded piece of fabric, the folded piece of fabric (in the bottom half of the hoop), and the top piece of the embroidery hoop (with the screw).
Make sure the fabric is taught and then tighten the screw as much as you can.
Flip the hoop over and trim the fabric close to the hoop. Now you can hang it up and use the pocket to store the pattern you want to work on next or other sewing accessories. You can even add a bow to the top if you want.
If you don’t like the look of batting on the back you could put a piece of fabric under the batting when layering everything in the hoop before trimming the excess. You can also hot glue lace around the hoop to cover the fabric you trimmed, but that limits the ability to switch out the fabrics if you ever wanted to.
Like I mentioned earlier, be sure to check back tomorrow for another tutorial. I will say that I am having trouble coming up with a name for what it should be called. Curious? See you tomorrow. :)
