14 Laptop Sleeves & Cases: Free Tutorials & Patterns

Here are over a dozen different sewing, knit & felting tutorials and patterns for laptop sleeves and cases. These are my favorite picks of what I found available online for freebies. Enjoy!

Laptop Sleeves & Cases: Free Tutorials & Patterns

1. Whip Up Tutorial: Fabric Laptop Sleeve: A nice and easy sewing tutorial for a fabric laptop sleeve, velcro closure and bag is trimmed with bias tape. Envelope style.
2. Joann.com Felt Laptop Bag Tutorial (pdf): Felt laptop bag with handles and optional decorative strip. Handles are made by zigzag stitching an outline then cutting out the center (buttonhole fashion). Quick & cute project!
3. Ten: Cloth Laptop Case: Sewing tutorial for a padded cloth laptop case, flap closure with buttons.
4. Make Your Own Artist’s Canvas MacBook Sleeve: Made from artist’s canvas and lined with quilted lining (feel free to paint & decorate once it’s made!). If you don’t have a MacBook, the directions are easy enough to adjust for your laptop.
5. Design*Sponge Laptop Cozy: Felt laptop cozy “wrap style” made from felt with velcro dot closures.
6. Instructables Simple Laptop Sleeve: Easy sewing tute for a laptop sleeve, more like a quick pocket & made from thick fabric.
7. Canadian Living Knit An Aran Laptop Cover Pattern: Gorgeous cabled knit laptop cover with a tip to line the bag in felt for extra stability. Fold over flap with three 1″ quick release clips sewn in.
8. Pattern for Felted 12″ Powerbook Cover: Very nice felted cover, if you don’t have a 12″ Powerbook, just adjust the measurements to what you need. Includes instructions for stripe and non-stripe versions. Fold over flap to close.
9. Step By Step: Felted Powerbook Jacket: Instead of a specific pattern (K1 P2), this is a technique study so you can learn how to customize this jacket for your own laptop size.
10. Felted Laptop Sleeve For 13-inch Laptop – Pattern: Mac apple design (cute!) and knitted in the round, double-stranded. It has a zipper around three sides so you can open the sleeve right up.
11. Lionbrand Felted Laptop Sleeve: This site is getting harder and harder to link to particular patterns, scroll down the page until you see the sleeve. You have to be a member to get to the pattern (it’s free), but other than those irritants–the bag is cute. Fold over flap with a strap buckle closure.
12. Laptop bag from a pillow case: Turn a pillow sham into a roomy laptop bag, clever!
13. Placemat Hack: Flaptop Laptop Cover : The placemat might have you thinking this isn’t that cute, but really it is!
14. Sew Your Own Laptop Bag: Nice messenger bag style made from denim and a cotton fabric print.

*List updated and dead links pruned September 18, 2009

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