Lucy Locket, Make a Pocket

After some misadventures installing my clothesline, I quickly realized that carrying clothespins in my hands wouldn’t do for hanging a full load of laundry. Never one to buy a product when a few hours’ work could solve a problem, I decided to make a decorative pocket patterned after 18th-century European pockets. Although the style with a wire hoop to hold the opening is handy outside, the space by my back door is narrow, so I wanted something that would hang flat against the wall. A flat pocket also gave me the opportunity to decorate the front surface, a nice benefit since it’d be in plain view most of the time.

I rounded up scraps from other sewing projects for my pocket, and, in the spirit of using up the waste from other projects, I also made the double-fold binding. See “How to