Sewing Storage Hacks Under $15

April 24, 2020

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.

—Joanne 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.

—Jane 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 appliqué 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.

—April 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 appliqué kit, tracing patterns on the closed lid and storing tools inside.
—Linda Kile

Catawissa, Pennsylvania

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Cable Wraps

Secure binding strips with cable wraps.

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