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Sewing: Baskets, Boxes & Organizers

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How To Make A Clothespin Bag. Fabric Baskets To Make - Sewing. I am always on the lookout for ways to better organize my life, especially my sewing and craft area.

Fabric Baskets To Make - Sewing

I keep hoping that this will allow me to more easily find the things that I need when I need them and keep the area looking nice in the meantime. I like the idea of fabric storage bins or baskets, but many of the ones sold in stores are very plain looking or made with that papery fabric that isn't durable (and most of them are boring). Thinking that making my own would kill two birds with one stone by creating storage while using up fabric from my stash, I started looking around for patterns and found a number of patterns available on the internet.

Now I have a new problem - too many choices! The patterns are linked below in case you are in need of more creative storage ideas too. Dainty Blossoms Couch Arm Pincushion. Dainty Blossoms Couch Pincushion Printer Friendly Instructions Course Instructor: Bree McElroy from Distant Pickles (www.distantpickles.blogspot.com)

Dainty Blossoms Couch Arm Pincushion

Ticky Tacky Little Boxes. Instructions for a fast little project for one yard of medium to lightweight canvas.

Ticky Tacky Little Boxes

One yard, six little fabric boxes. Supplies. 1 yard (45 inches wide) mid weight canvas or similar woven48 random or mismatched buttons1 hank of cotton floss Instructions. Nested Fabric Buckets Tutorial. I didn’t invent the idea of the fabric basket/bucket–nothing like–but I am certainly more than happy to walk you through how I made the ones I’m using in my studio.

Nested Fabric Buckets Tutorial

After discovering–purely by accident–that a smaller (prototype) bucket fit neatly inside the larger size I settled on, it occurred to me as I prepared to put together a tutorial that a set of nested buckets would be pretty cool. So, here they are: a set of three nested fabric buckets to mix-and-match at will. Hanging Cloth Caddy. Hanging Storage Baskets. Fabric Cuts: From your fabric cut six 18½ x 28 inch pieces, and three 4 x 10 ½ inch pieces.

Hanging Storage Baskets

You will then iron them onto you interfacing per it's instructions, and then cut out. Trust me, it's easier than cutting out the pellon and then ironing! 25+ Pocket Organizers & Caddies To Make: {Sewing. Here’s a bunch of pocket-style organizers that you can make to store all kinds of things. Some have been featured previously on Tipnut and have been moved here for handy reference…but there’s plenty of new stuff to see too! Noodle-head.com Mail Organizer Tutorial: Fun fabric version of a letter bin. Bed Caddy: This bed caddy provides a handy place for all your most used items, customize the pocket sizes for your needs easily! Jeans Wall Holder. 18 Craft Organizers: Sewing Organizer Patterns for the New Year.

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18 Craft Organizers: Sewing Organizer Patterns for the New Year

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French Desk Set: DIY Basket Liners. I adore being organized.

French Desk Set: DIY Basket Liners

Actually ... I adore dreaming about being organized. I pour over my catalogs from Pottery Barn, Storables and Crate & Barrel, picturing my life neatly tucked away into matching bins and buckets. I even drool over those circulars from Target that show up this time of year when all the plastic tubs are on sale. Surely if I could see everything at a glance, I'd get more done. Take note that this project uses a ¼" seam allowance rather than our site standard ½". Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome 2160DC) Measure your basket Measure the width of the front (the back will be the same measurement).

Measure the base. Optional handle opening Measure the opening width and height. Final measurements. Ways To Make A Plastic Bag Holder: {Patterns & DIY. Here’s a mixed bunch of patterns and tutorials for making grocery bag holders.

Ways To Make A Plastic Bag Holder: {Patterns & DIY

There are several designs for sewing, a few for knit and crochet plus I also tucked in some clever DIY ideas turning ordinary household items into dispensers. Everything’s organized in their own section below to keep things tidy, enjoy! Sew A Knitting Needle Case. March is our favorite time of year for two things: 1. organizing and 2. knitting.

Sew A Knitting Needle Case

In theory, we’d like to start knitting in the fall to prepare for holiday gifts and the winter months ahead, but it always seems to be the busiest time of year, and sometimes it just isn’t practical to start knitting a sweater on size-4 needles in the middle of November. As we start to get a little stir crazy waiting for spring (for those of us in winter climates, it often doesn’t come for another month or even two, if we’re especially unlucky!) , we continue to cozy up at home and start our spring cleaning. In a moment of energized organizing, we made ourselves these knitting-needle cases to arrange and store knitting needles.