Sewing Room Crafty

I have today another sewing room crafty project from Pinterest. 

I found several of these on Pinterest for inspiration but when it came down to making my own I pretty much just winged it. I really wanted to stop losing my scissors and  stiletto all over my sewing surface, under my sewing project, cat knocks them on the floor, you get the idea.

So to make this basically I measured my machine width and depth and determined how much drop I needed for my pocket. I wanted a really exact fit under my machine so I made my square the width of my machine plus a ½" which for me came out to 16½". Next I took my machine depth and added enough to fold over and make my pockets. I determined I wanted 17½" so my finished size is a 16½" X 17½" rectangle.

Below you can see I have already quilted my 16½ X 17½" rectangle, bind-ed it like a small quilt and folded up the bottom about 4½" to create the front pocket area.

Next I took some of my favorite sewing notions that I wanted at hand and marked pocket sizes using my sew line pencil(I Love this pencil).

I stitched on my lines, placed the mat under my machine and voila!

I can't wait to start my next project and put this into action.

Thanks for reading♥