Directions for a quilted caddy to put on the arm of a chair or sofa that has side pockets and a pin cushion.

1. Pincushion Caddy
A caddy to put on the arm of your chair or
sofa that will give you a place for your pins
and your sewing and quilting tools.

2. What Do You Need?
• 1/2 Yard Fabric*
• Coordinating Thread
• Scraps of Batting
• Stuffing
* I used slightly more because
I cut the binding on the bias
since I rounded the corners.
This is optional.

3. Step One
From fabric, cut two strips
across the width of the
fabric 2-1/4” or your
preferred binding width.
Cut two 9” x 22” pieces
and four 7” x 9” pieces.
From batting, cut one
9” x 22” piece and two
7” x 9” pieces.

4. Step Two
Sandwich the batting between
the layers of the pieces of fabric
with the wrong sides of the
fabric facing the batting. You
should have one large and two
small “sandwiches.” Use your
preferred method to baste the
layers together for quilting. You
could hand baste, use pins or
use basting spray.
At this point ONLY quilt the two
small 7” x 9” sandwiches. I used
a meandering stitch but straight
lines would work great too.

5. Step Three
Join the two strips
that you cut for
binding and press in
half.

6. Step Four
Trim the two small pieces that you have quilted to a finished size of
6” x 8”. Cut two 8” pieces of your pressed binding and sew binding
to one 8” edge of each piece. Finish binding as desired by machine
or by hand.

7. Step Five
Before you quilt the large sandwich you need to do some measuring and
marking. You are going to quilt the piece, but NOT a 4” strip down the middle.
You can mark it however you prefer but I used blue painter’s tape to mark the
area that you do not want to quilt. My tape is on the inside of the 4” strip. After
marking, quilt both ends in the same manner you quilted the smaller pieces.

8. Step Six
After quilting the larger
piece, trim it to a finished
size of 8” x 20”. Don’t
remove the tape or marking
yet. Be sure when you trim
that the 4” unquilted strip is
in the center of the
rectangle.

9. Step Seven
The next step is to fold the
long piece in half. The
unquilted end should be
folded exactly in half.
Remove one piece of your
tape (if you used tape) and
then sew along the other
through both layers. This
will make a tube of the
unquilted 4” center section.
Remove tape.

10. Step Eight
Open out the long quilted
piece with the “tube” on the
top. Flatten the tube on one
end and sew the end shut with
a very narrow seam. Stuff the
tube with polyester stuffing
from the open end. When you
decide it’s full enough, flatten
out the open end and sew flat
to the rectangle with a narrow
hem.

11. Step Nine
Next pin the two smaller pieces to each end of the large
rectangle. Decide if you want to create any narrow
pockets. If so, stitch from the edge of the binding in a
straight line to the bottom. The photo isn’t great, but I did
sew two pockets on the right side.

12. Step Ten
If you want to round the corners (which means you should really cut your
binding on the bias) the quickest and easiest way is to place something
round on the corner and draw around it with a pencil or marking pen and
cut on the line.

13. Step Eleven
To finish all you need to
do is add the binding
around the outside edge
and add your scissors, a
pencil, some pins and
you’re ready to do
something productive.

14. And…That’s All Until
Next Month!