Sewing Storage Hacks Under $15
Transform common household items from every room in your house into creative organizational solutions.
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Utensil Caddy
My husband attached a utensil caddy to the unused iron rest on my ironing board. Now my tools, pincushion, and everything else I need are at my fingertips when ironing.
āJoanne Noyes
Eustis, Maine
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Chip Clips
Keep cut fabric pieces together with chip clips. Use a marker to label each clip with the designated row for its set of pieces.
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Lunch Tray
Embroidery floss, needles, and a small scissors can be easily seen in a divided lunch tray.
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Lunch Box
Create a portable English paper-piecing kit using a lunch box that has a resealable lid.
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Ice Cube Tray
Let the compartments of an ice cube tray confine sewing machine needles, bobbins, and machine feet.
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Shower Curtain Hooks
Hang oversize rulers, templates, and patterns from shower curtain hooks suspended from a tension rod.
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Ponytail Holders
I wrap small ponytail holders around my bobbins as a colorful and inexpensive way to contain the loose thread ends.
āJane Bulen
Stover, Missouri
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Shower Caddy
Corral fabric bundles, spray bottles, hoops, scissors, and rotary cutters with a shower caddy hung on the back of a door.
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Cosmetics Organizer
To clean up your work surface, gather items from your sewing table into an acrylic cosmetics organizer.
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Soap Case
Fill a plastic soap case with your favorite needles, thread, and scissors for a customized travel sewing kit.
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Expandable Coupon Organizer
Hold individual appliquƩ pieces in an expandable coupon organizer, labeling each pocket with the block number.
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Trading Card Sleeves
When I am working on multiple quilts, I put fabric samples from the different projects in trading card sleeves. It keeps the project swatches separate and makes them easy to see and match quickly. When I go shopping, I fold the sleeve and slip it into my purse.
āApril Schnars
Lakewood, California
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Grip Grass
Stand marking utensils and rulers in flexible silicone grip grass.
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Clipboard Box
Use a clipboard box as an appliquƩ kit, tracing patterns on the closed lid and storing tools inside.
āLinda Kile
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
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Cable Wraps
Secure binding strips with cable wraps.