Cell Phone Station Pocket

I love pinterest.  I find so many wonderful ideas on those pages. Ideas that sometimes solve annoying problems. Things that just make the light bulb go off in my head.   I've seen several different solutions to charging phones. So I've decided to try my luck at one.  I hope you'll play along!

I hate all the cords and plugs needed today for all the electronic gadgets in my life.  If I had it my way, there would be no cords or plugs.  Everything should just work and never stop.  Batteries should be outlawed.  But……until manufacturers agree with me and reinvent these gadgets without all the wired attachments I have to deal with them.  Lately, I’ve seen several cute and really smart ideas for chargers and the cords and since I’m always looking for awesome ideas to solve storage issues and also great uses for my scraps and stash I’ve decided to tackle a Cell Phone Station Pocket Organizer.  Come and play along with me. 

Cell Phone Station Pocket 

15” x 6” quilted rectangle
 to 2 strips of 2 ¼” x WOF (width of fabric) strips
1 – Grommet

The first thing I did was sort through some of my stash to find the right sizes I would need for the front and the back. Then a piece of scrap batting.  I found 3 – fat eighths leftover from another project and decided they would work perfect.  They all coordinated.   I layered the three and pin basted. 

  Then I free-motion quilted them together in a simple stippling pattern. 

Next I trimmed the quilted piece to a 15” x 6” rectangle. 

After determining how deep the pocket should be to accommodate my cell phone and cord and how much room I needed at the top for the grommet, (3 ½” inches from the top down to the top layer of the pocket) I was ready to start stitching.    

 

I cut a 6”piece of the folded binding I had prepared and stitched to the right side then folded to the wrong side and slip stitched it in place. 

I then folded the unit back so that I had my 3 ½” at the top.

Using a scant ¼” seam I stitched from the binding on one side down, across the bottom and back up the other side stopping after tacking the binding down.

I then added the binding starting at the bottom (fold). I turned up a ¼” at the beginning, then stitched up the side, across the top and down the other side again returning up a ¼” at the end.

 

 

Using a slip stitch, I then turned the binding the the back side and starting and the bottom and stitching around finished he edges of the pocket.

 

 

 Next, I needed to add the large grommet.  (By the way, I have several of these laying around in my sewing cabinet leftover from the big purse trend.  If you don’t have any of them you can find them in the curtain rod secton of most big box stores) Using the template in the package to center and mark my pocket for placement I used a water soluble pen.

I cut out the marked circle.

Following the easy instructions on the package I inserted the grommet

 

Now, I made this in an afternoon and I can’t believe how easy it was.  I bet I could make several of these and find uses for them all.  Not only for me but also for friends and family.  What a great idea.  Hmmm…..these could make clever gifts. 

Enjoy!