Silas sleeps upstairs and we sleep downstairs (at least he sleeps upstairs until he decides to come downstairs). Lately, that happens in the wee hours and he's requested a flashlight to guide his passage. He also asked for a place to keep his flashlight so he can always find it.
Thus, the gusseted bedside caddy was conceived and formed. After making Silas's to fit his current chapter book and flashlight, I decided I needed one, too. Mine is designed to hold all the important things I like at my bedside--book (and now Kindle), book light, notepad and pen, reading glasses, ear plugs and headphones/Bluetooth (who doesn't need earphones to facilitate those pre-sleep viewings of important things like "The Daily Show" and "Downton Abbey" and, if I'm super tired, "Murder She Wrote"?). [Does everyone else love Jessica Fletcher the way I do?"]
I used cotton upholstery fabric and sturdy interfacing between layers, so they hang nicely without sagging. Silas's has ties on it. Mine employs hair elastics, which I hang from tiny cup hooks screwed into the underside of the moulding on the night stand. Mine doesn't really show because it is attached to my nightstand, facing my bed. I used the fabric to match the pillows I made last summer.
All-in-all, quite functional.
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