20+ Free Pencil Case & Pouch Tutorials: {Sewing}

Zippered: This one’s loaded with features, has a front pocket, beaded zipper pull and a ribbon loop to hold a carabiner for keys.

Tube: Made with home decor weight material, duck cloth or canvas, the round ends are finished in a contrasting piping.

Triangular: Made with strips of fabric, wool felt and lined inside with a cotton print.

For Binders: This one fits inside a 3-ring binder (grommets are used), has rounded corners and it’s all finished off with contrasting bias tape.

Bags: Made with a 1/2 yard (each) of two different fabrics and super easy to make.

Patchwork: Made with linen, scraps of cotton material and heavyweight fusible fleece. Google doc tutorial by lbg-studio.com.

Simple: Another easy project made with 10 x 12 inch rectangles of both lining and outer fabrics and finished off with binding.

Made With Felt: Sweet and simple made with a rectangle of felt and hand sewn together with embroidery thread. Button closure (simple buttonhole made with a snip in the felt).

Oilcloth: You’ll just need a couple pieces of oilcloth and a zipper to make this.

Recycled Cereal Box: Here’s a quick and easy project using cardboard from a cereal box, there’s a free template download available (via pdf).

Zakka Style: This is made with scraps of linen and cotton material, features an applique and attached loop for a key ring.

With Inner Pockets: This design features small inner pockets that were designed to hold matchbox cards but they can be used to hold other supplies if you like.

Vinyl: Surprisingly simple to put together, this features contrasting colors on each end and along the top plus a vinyl applique on the front.

Flat: The is lined and features a contrasting fabric along the top (zipper is near the top so the pocket is nice and deep).

Checked Knit: This one’s knit in two contrasting colors, lined with cotton and has two hidden pockets.

Sharpie: Here’s a cute little lined, zipped pouch that has a sharpie design on the front and doodles on the back.

Bubble Applique: Lined and has circles (bubbles) appliqued across the front.

For A Binder: Made for a 3-ring binder, has a clear vinyl “window” so you can see what’s inside.

Zipped: Scraps of material (black, cream, yellow, gray & pink), lining and fusible fleece are needed to make this project.

Zip-It-Up: Here’s a neat project using an 80″ nylon zipper and 80″ of ribbon (a strip of lining is optional).

Boxy: Long, rectangular and box-shaped, this has room to hold all kinds of school supplies.

Knitted: Sweet little project that features buttons and flowers (lazy daisy embroidery technique) for embellishment.

With Gusset Insert: The sample image here doesn’t show off this design very well, it has a triangle gusset insert so the bottom is nice ‘n full.

With Appliques: Lined and has colorful pencil appliques (includes a pdf template to download).