How To Make A Jewelry Pouch

To make a jewelry pouch you need basic knowledge of sewing machines and a bit of scrap fabric. The size of the jewelry pouch you make depends on the amount of jewelry the pouch will hold and where the pouch will be stored while it holds your jewelry. Any fabric can be used; however, beginners will have more success working with cotton fabric in a color or print of their choosing.

1. Choose your fabric. If you will be using this as pouch in a pocketbook or duffel bag to hold your jewelry try choosing a fabric color that will match or compliment the color of the bag that is already in use.


2. Cut two circles from the fabric no smaller than six or eight inches in diameter.


3. Place the fabric circles together. For printed fabrics, make sure the printed sides are facing one another. This will leave you looking at the backside of the fabric.


4. Place the circles under the sewing machine and stitch the circles together, following the circular pattern and sewing about 1/4 of an inch from the edge of the fabric circles. Leave two inches from the starting point and finishing point. Use the two-inch gap to pull the sewn circle right side out and finish stitching the circles together by sewing the two-inch gap.


5. Stitch two more circles inside the stitched circles. Start with the first circle 1/4 of an inch away from the edge of the fabric circle and the second circle should be stitched 1/4 of an inch below that circle. There are now two circles stitched completely through the fabric.


6. Use scissors to make holes in between the two circles stitched into the fabric in the previous step. The holes should only go through the first layer of fabric and space an inch apart.


7. Thread cord string through a large needle and weave the cord in and out of the holes punched through the fabric in the previous step. Knot the ends of the cord and leave several inches of slack so the string will not slip through the holes when you open and close the pouch.


8. Lay the fabric circle flat on a table. Place jewelry in the center of the stitched circles and pull the cord string. The cord will bunch the fabric so that gathers around the jewelry holding it in place and protecting the jewelry.