Happy Summer everyone! In the spirit of getting reading for Back to School, I'm throwing it back to this post from almost exactly four years ago! I was preparing for my new year and about to order a set of expensive chair pockets online, when my dear mother volunteered to make me some! She's an excellent seamstress, and they turned out great! I washed them every year and they lasted about three years. I could have kept using them, but moved to a school/grade where I didn't use chair pockets…

Aloha friends! How is your summer going? I am all over the place with creating, reading, cooking, cleaning etc... But I am loving every minute of it. Today I am linking up with Tara for one of my favorite linky parties during the summer to show you how I created my own seat sacks. I have always wanted to get seat sacks for my classroom, but they are pretty pricey and I don't like the colors that are available commercially. I borrowed a seat sack from a colleague to see how difficult it would…

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I must admit that I was a little wary of this project when Cadie's teacher first asked me, but it turned out to be really fun and a lot easier than I expected. So if your kid's kindergarten or first grade teacher ever asks you about making chair pockets for the class, say yes - I'll show you how!

This auction is for an Easy to make Chair pocket and Seat SackPattern! Customize it to Fit your Chair! It is NOT for the made items!!! ~ 10 Pages ~ Very Detailed ~ A lot of PICTURES!!! After years of making handmade these chair pockets, I decided to put the steps down and create an instruction

This is not something I got from Pinterest, but since I'm going to pin it when I'm finished writing this, it belongs in my Pinterest diaries. :-) I have to admit that the idea for this came from a coworker of mine. She gathered pillowcases and had a grandparent of one of her students sew them to create seat back pockets for her. Since I am definitely not a seamstress and my mother, who loves to quilt, lives sixteen hours away, I filed her idea away that "to-do-at-some-point" part of my…

Sew a bag to hang on the back of a chair with this chair bag tutorial - perfect for school or your desk at home.

I saw this link on Pinterest last year and loved the idea. I bought a few to use at my reading table and they worked well. As much as I lov...

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Sewing these chair pockets is so much fun... and fast and easy too! This time I used home decor weight fabric to streamline my chair pocket sewing pattern even more. The chair pockets fit over the bac