Sewing Glossary: How To Sew Your Most Essential Four Pockets
FS Lola Trench made with FS Yarn Dye Midweight Linen
Continuing on from How To Sew Your Most Essential Four Collars article, here are your four most relevant pocket tutorials you might need in your sewing practice all in one place.
Simply click on the links below to either go straight to the pocket tutorial or try out any of our free patterns below to practice these skills.
Let us know in the comments below if this is useful to you and we can make similar collections of tutorials on sleeves, pleats, hems, etc.
Cargo Patch Pockets
Click HERE for Cargo Patch Pocket tutorial.
If you would like to try our free multi-sized printable Ruby Dress Pattern here is the step by step tutorial on how to make it.
FS Ruby Dress Made with FS Yarn Dye Midweight Linen
How To Add Inseam Pockets To A Flat-Felled Seam
Click HERE for Inseam Pocket tutorial.
If you would like to try our free multi-sized printable Magda Pants Pattern here is the step by step tutorial on how to make it.
FS Magda Pants made with FS BLEACHED Heavyweight Linen
Decorative Flap To Patch Pockets
Click HERE for Decorative Flap To Patch Pocket tutorial.
If you would like to try our free multi-sized printable Sky Shirt Dress Pattern here is the step by step tutorial on how to make it.
FS Sky Shirt Dress made with FS Black Midweight Linen
Welt Pockets
Click HERE for Welt Pocket tutorial.
If you would like to try our free multi-sized printable Lola Trench Pattern here is the step by step tutorial on how to make it.
FS Lola Trench made with FS Yarn Dye Midweight Linen
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Elaine Rutledge
Get creative with pockets! When my children were small, I combined applique with pockets. The mast of a sailboat may be a vertical pocket opening, while the rim of a basket could be a horizontal pocket opening. The pockets were made as if they were “Bound Edge” pockets.