A Little Bedside Pocket

I found a blog through another blog that showed one of these little bedside pockets.  I didn’t copy her, but it did remind me of one I made about 15 years ago.  Never would have thought to share it until I saw hers.  It’s not as pretty as I might make it today, but it worked {and still does} so I thought I’d share it now.  These are really easy to make even for beginning sewers and they use small amounts of fabric so it’s great for left-overs.

Our one spare bedroom is quite small and I have a daybed in there.  There is no room for side tables.  I had mounted lights to the wall, but there was no place for the television remote, some tissues or a book.

I came up with this pocket that fits under the mattress {which is what holds it in place}.  I have blue and yellow in this room and had enough of the toile and the stripe left over from other projects in the room to use for this.

I sewed two pieces of the toile, right sides together leaving an opening to turn it right side out.  I hemmed the striped fabric for the pocket.  Put those right sides together and just sew the two sides and bottom, leave the top open.  That is your pocket and you have “good” fabric sides showing all around.

Quite the little handy piece and it does work to hold all those things I mentioned, plus a water bottle!  You could even adapt this for a chair, where you might not be able to fit a side table.

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Kathy