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

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

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

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

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

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

Patchwork Pouch: Made with linen, scraps of cotton fabric and heavyweight fusible fleece. Google doc tutorial by littlebiggirlstudio.blogspot.com.

Simple Pencil Bag: Another easy project made with a zipper, 10 x 12 inch rectangles of both lining fabric and outer fabrics and finished off with binding.

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

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

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

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

Zipped 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.

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

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

Checked Knit: This one’s knit in two contrasting colors, lined with cotton fabric (has two hidden pockets) and zipped at top.

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

Bubble Zippered Pouch: A simple lined, zipped pouch is sewn with fabric circles (bubbles) appliqued across the front.

Binder Pouch Tutorial: Zipped pouch for a 3-ring binder, has a clear vinyl “window” so you can see the pens and pencils inside.

Zipped Pouch: Scraps of fabric (black, cream, yellow, gray & pink), lining fabric, fusible fleece and a 9″ zipper 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 fabric lining is optional).

Boxy: A long rectangular box-shaped case, this has room to hold pencils and all kinds of school supplies.

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

Fabric Pen Case: This sample image here doesn’t show off this design very well, it’s a basic zipped pouch but has a triangle gusset insert so the bottom is nice ‘n full.

With Pencil Appliques: A simple zipped pouch (lined) with colorful pencil appliques (includes a pdf template to download).