Sew an Easy iPad Pillow or Tablet Stand

Sew an Easy iPad Pillow or Tablet Stand

Prop up your iPad, tablet, or cell phone–hands-free–in the cradle area of this Hold-It Sack! These tablet stands, or iPad Pillows, are made from laminated fabric and are ideal to use throughout your home or office. The finished shapes look complicated, but they’re not! They’re all made from rectangular shapes and constructed with easy straight stitching.

Watch online at Sewing With Nancy, Sew Simple with Rectangles & Squares (Part Two).

Finished approximate sizes:

• Small—4″ x 5-3/4″ x 7-1/2″ depth
• Large—7″ x 9″ x 9″ depth

Supplies (for small and large sacks)

Cut fabric (for one large and one small sack)

Create tabs and base with Create-a-Strap

• Fuse Create-a-Strap to wrong sides of all 2″ wide strips (two 3″ strips, one 6-1/2″ strip, and one 10″ strip).

• Fold along perforations and edgestitch.

Stitch seams

• Fold rectangles in half, meeting short ends. Stitch the long seam.

• Wrap the corner.
• Fold along seamline.
• Clip edges with Wonder Clips.

• Stitch top edge, leaving a 2″ opening at the center. Stitch to the cut edge at each side of the opening—this makes it easier to turn.

Nancy’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge from Clover is a great tool for accurate measuring!

• Open sac, then fold each corner at the top of the sack to create a triangular shape. Center seam; pin.
• Place corner on the cutting mat and trim off 3/4″ from each corner.

• Fold a 3″ tab in half, meeting short ends.

• Insert tab in the corner with only one seam, aligning raw edges. Stitch corners.

Finish Sacks

• Turn sack right side out.
• Center seam at unfinished end.
• Measure up 3-1/2″ from the unfinished end; mark.
• Fold under ends of base strap length to fit width of sack (Small = 5-1/2″ and Large = 8-1/2″). 

• Align end of base strap at the 3-1/2″ mark. 

• Stitch base strap to sack along both edges.

• Center Wrap’n Fuse Piping on the wrong side of a 3″ x 6-1/2″ fabric strip. Trim piping a little shorter than the strip width. Align long edges; press.

If fusible piping is not available, stitch piping in place using a zipper foot.

• Finish edges of piping. Fold each short edge at a 45 degree angle, and then fold it again.

• Fold unfinished end of sack in half and then in half again, to meet the edge of the piping base (covering raw edge of piping).

• Attach zipper foot. Stitch layers.

• Fill sacks with poly pellets, rice, or dried beans (about 2 cups for the small sack or 4 cups for the large sack) and fill the remainder with fiberfill.
• Hand stitch opening closed.

Ta-dah! The finished sacks are ready for use!

Make the Hold-It Sacks for your sewing area.

Watch Sew Simple With Rectangles & Squares on Sewing With Nancy online.

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Happy Sewing!

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