Sewing Storage Hacks Under $15

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.

—Joanne Noyes

Eustis, Maine

Keep cut fabric pieces together with chip clips. Use a marker to label each clip with the designated row for its set of pieces.

Repurpose a coffee mug tree to keep scissors and rotary cutters close at hand. The vertical holder means less wasted table space.

Embroidery floss, needles, and a small scissors can be easily seen in a divided lunch tray.

Create a portable English paper-piecing kit using a lunch box that has a resealable lid.

Let the compartments of an ice cube tray confine sewing machine needles, bobbins, and machine feet.

Hang oversize rulers, templates, and patterns from shower curtain hooks suspended from a tension rod.

I wrap small ponytail holders around my bobbins as a colorful and inexpensive way to contain the loose thread ends.

—Jane Bulen

Stover, Missouri

Corral fabric bundles, spray bottles, hoops, scissors, and rotary cutters with a shower caddy hung on the back of a door.

To clean up your work surface, gather items from your sewing table into an acrylic cosmetics organizer.

Fill a plastic soap case with your favorite needles, thread, and scissors for a customized travel sewing kit.

Hold individual appliqué pieces in an expandable coupon organizer, labeling each pocket with the block number.

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.

—April Schnars

Lakewood, California

Stand marking utensils and rulers in flexible silicone grip grass.

Use a clipboard box as an appliqué kit, tracing patterns on the closed lid and storing tools inside.
—Linda Kile

Catawissa, Pennsylvania

Secure binding strips with cable wraps.

A screwdriver holder that fits a pegboard can hold scissors, keeping them off your work space, yet handy.