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Summary: Learn how to sew a carrier to make a paperback book caddy in this free instructional arts and crafts video.

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Materials for a Bedside Paperback Book Caddy

Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. To make our bedside book caddy, we need a pillowcase. Any size will be fine; king, queen, or standard. It doesn’t matter. This is a standard queen. The first thing you want to do is press it so that it's nice and flat and easy to work with. Get those edges nice and straight. Then we're going to pin the top closed, and we'll be sewing that. Just put a few pins in there to hold that closed. Then you want to fold it up. You can fold it up as much as you want. I'm going to fold mine up 8 inches. 8 inches is a good amount to put a paperback book in like this. You can make this any way you want. If you want deeper pockets you can fold it up more. You just want to make sure that you have plenty of extra on the top to tuck into your mattress, because that's what's going to hold it in place. You're going to tuck this excess material on top in between you box spring and your mattress. You want to line that pocket that you've made up. Line it up nice and straight. You can press it again. It's a lot easier to sew things if you prepress them. It sort of holds it in place. Then you want to decide what kind of pockets you're going to have. I would like to have a big enough pocket to hold maybe a paperback book and then maybe a larger book. I'm not going to put my pocket right down the middle. I think I'll put it right here. I'm going to pin. My pillowcase happens to be striped and I can sew right on that line, or you would simply mark a line where you want to sew your pocket. Put some pins in there to hold it. Now we'll go to our sewing table.

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