You don't need to know how to sew to make a spread cloth, I made mine without touching a needle (well, almost). I used a soft cloth for the top and felt for the bottom. Felt has a nice thickness to protect your cards, it does not slip so it has some grip, it's incredibly cheap (they almost give it away)... and no need to sew felt.
What you really need is felt for the bottom and glue specifically for cloth as well as a few needles to keep in place together both your cloth and the felt, but these are not needles for sewing though. Make sure to buy lots of glue because once you start you cannot really stop in the middle. You can find all these in fabrics stores.
Felt doesn't need any sewing for preparation, I mean by this sewing the edges to ensure the threads of the cloth won't fall and your project fall apart too. The soft cloth definitively really needs it though, but instead of sewing, you will glue the edges, around 3/4 inch of cloth that you fold all around your cloth on the edges, then you glue it and press it against the cloth. Then let your cloth dry completely.
Once it's dry comes the other part. You have to make sure that both your cloth and the felt are the same size. Put the the felt and cloth exactly on top of each other, then use the needles to stick both cloths together at many places and close to the edges to keep both well tight together. Then use again the glue but this time to glue the felt and the cloth together but at the edges only, like when you prepared earlier your cloth, 3/4 inch again, but this time no folding. The glue will make the cloth hard so it's best to keep the glue at the edges if you want to have your spread cloth to be smooth, like that at least your spread cloth will be smooth at the middle. It will become smoothier with time. Then you let it dry again completely, take off the needles, and you have a spread cloth without doing any sewing. The spread cloth is not washable so be careful with it.
Here is mine:
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