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Organize Sewing Supplies

American Patchwork & Quilting Editors Updated December 28, 2021
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Create a clutter-free work space by storing your scissors, rulers, thread, and other notions in one of these stylish ways.

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Corral Catchalls

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Drawers can quickly become unorganized hiding places. Keep loose tools in place by storing them in smaller containers within drawers. Choose felt or silicon dividers to avoid damaging drawers and tools. Save the top drawer for most-used notions. Use the lower drawer for less-frequently accessed items like sewing machine instructions and accessories.

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Out of Sight

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Add a hanging utility board to the back of a closet. This board has shelves, containers, and hooks to hold an assortment of spray bottles and glues, small notions, and mini charm squares.

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Hang Around

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Make the most of vertical space with a pegboard to keep notions close at hand and off your worktable. Customize it with shelves, baskets, and hooks, which can be adjusted as needs change.

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Perk Up with Paint

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Keep your room visually decluttered by painting a pegboard and hanging spool rack one color. Display your most-used thread on the thread holder. Store extra spools in closed containers away from sun and dust.

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Table Organizer

Table Organizer

Repurposed a necklace holder as an organizer on my sewing table. It can easily store things like a tape measure, binding tools, and scissors.

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On the Hook

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Hang rulers and templates from Command hooks attached to an edge of your cutting table to keep your work surface clear.

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Magnetic Tape

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Upgrade a crowded drawer with strips of magnetic tape on the often-unused interior sides. The tape can hold loose needles, pins, metal bobbins, clips, and other small notions. You can also cut the tape to the size of your cutting tools and place it on the drawer bed to keep the tools from sliding around as the drawer is opened and closed. Because the tape comes in a variety of widths and strengths, you can buy it to fit your needs.

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Magazine Holder

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Organize fusibles and interfacing in upright containers. You can slide these in the nooks of a bookcase for a uniform and colorful look. Or you can put on a shelf to keep the supplies handy, but out of the way.

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Zip Along

Zip Along

Store sewing machine feet and sewing machine needles in a hanging cloth jewelry holder that has zippered vinyl sections. When you head to a quilt retreat,  simply roll up the holder and take it with you.

 

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By the Book

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A bookcase sized to fit in an unused corner of a room can store and display a variety of objects, including books, design software, die cuts, and pretty sewing collections. The bins here hide fabric scraps, wool, and batting.

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Hold Tight

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Use a magnetic holder usually used for tools or knives to keep your scissors right by your cutting table. The strong magnet accommodates all sizes and shapes.

 

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File Folder Organizer

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Available in a variety of sizes and colors, a file folder organizer allows you to separate and store dies, rulers, or templates on your work space or a shelf. (Pro tip: Store die-cuts vertically to protect the blades.)

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Closet Storage System

Closet Storage

Disguised by pretty curtains when not in use, this closet storage nook maximizes efficiency. Neatly fold fabric to stack on shelves or in drawers. Pegboard puts even the smallest wall space to work stowing tools and essentials.

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Ready to Roll

Ready to Roll

Organize rolls of interfacing and fusibles by cutting an empty cardboard gift wrap tube into 6"-long sections. Slide a roll inside each shortened tube and mark on the outside what's inside.

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File Cabinet

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Use a file cabinet in your sewing room to store acrylic templates and rulers in individual hanging folders. In each folder with a ruler include the ruler instructions and even a unit sewn using the ruler. You also can use hanging folders to store fabric panels apart from your stash and packages of fusibles and interfacing.

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Toolbox

On-the-Go Storage

A toolbox isn't just for hammers and nails. Multiple trays and compartments keep thread, spools, buttons, pins, and other small notions organized and portable.

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Spice It Up

Embellishment Storage

A spice rack lines up jars housing small embellishments and notions while keeping them visible.

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Smarty Pants

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To store cutting mats when not in use,  clip them to pants hangers and stash them in the closet. The hanger clips are strong enough to hold two mats each.

 

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Back to School

Ruler Storage

Add plastic pockets or zipper pouches to a D-ring binder to hold acrylic templates and the instruction manuals together.

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Spice Drawer Insert

drawer storage

Keep items like spools of thread and small bottles of liquids visible and easy to reach with a spice drawer insert that has slanted dividers. The dividers will hold spools in place so the thread doesn't get tangled and a closed drawer will hide thread from light and dust. The slanted dividers mean the bottles of liquid won't spill.

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Straw Dispensers

Clever Ribbon Storage

Straw dispensers rise to the occasion to hold towers of ribbon spools. Remove the top of the dispenser inserts and slide the ribbons onto the rods. Not only are unruly ribbons kept in check, but they're also visible.

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Hang the Buckets

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Buy little tin buckets in bulk. Hung on a pegboard, they're perfect for corralling marking tools, scissors, adhesives, and other small tools.

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A Place for Everything

sewing supplies

Hang rulers, rotary cutters—even a thread rack—on an easy-to-access pegboard. A tension rod holds rolls of ribbon and ricktack.

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Clear cookie jars hold thread and buttons. Tags clarify what goes where. These would look beautiful displayed on a shelf.

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Cool Colors

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To make fabric markers and Pigma pens last as long as possible, store them in a plastic bag in the vegetable bin of your refrigerator. The cool temperature and moisture keep them from drying out.

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Creative Use for Leftover Binding Strips

Creative Use for Leftover Binding Strips

Use leftover binding strips to tie up the cords on your iron, sewing machine, or phone charger when they are not in use.

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Step to Storage

Step to Storage

Use an inexpensive over-the-door shoe organizer that has clear pockets to contain hard-to-store quilt accessories like a mini iron, spray adhesives, extension cords, and small templates. You can see at a glance what you have on hand, and clutter is kept to a minimum.

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    1 of 27 Corral Catchalls
    2 of 27 Out of Sight
    3 of 27 Hang Around
    4 of 27 Perk Up with Paint
    5 of 27 Table Organizer
    6 of 27 On the Hook
    7 of 27 Magnetic Tape
    8 of 27 Magazine Holder
    9 of 27 Zip Along
    10 of 27 By the Book
    11 of 27 Hold Tight
    12 of 27 File Folder Organizer
    13 of 27 Closet Storage System
    14 of 27 Ready to Roll
    15 of 27 File Cabinet
    16 of 27 Toolbox
    17 of 27 Spice It Up
    18 of 27 Smarty Pants
    19 of 27 Back to School
    20 of 27 Spice Drawer Insert
    21 of 27 Straw Dispensers
    22 of 27 Hang the Buckets
    23 of 27 A Place for Everything
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    25 of 27 Cool Colors
    26 of 27 Creative Use for Leftover Binding Strips
    27 of 27 Step to Storage

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