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Why is it that one of the most important rooms in the house almost always ends up overwhelmingly cluttered? At least for me, top-ranking rooms in terms of mess always are the bedroom, the kitchen, and inevitably, the sewing room. Today we’re exploring how to organize your sewing room to maximize space, enforce functionality, and reduce stress!
Sewn Containers for All of Your Goods
At AllFreeSewing, we sew. We understand the importance of accumulated odds-and-ends around the sewing room. The sewn containers below are the perfect solution to reducing the family’s inexplicable uproar over your 500+ button collection or 2-inch wide strips of fabric. Learn how to make a basket or box to stash your stash. After all, what they can’t see can’t hurt them, right? These DIY containers allow you to hold onto your absolutely necessary 25 spools of blue thread (different shades, of course), without hearing a single complaint from your loved one.
- Gathered Round Basket
- Fabric Storage Boxes
- Denim Fabric Basket Tutorial
- Stash Buckets
- Sewn Stash Baskets
Hanging Wall Organizers
Learn how to sew a hanging wall organizer so that your sewing supplies are right where you can see them. These elevated, easy-to-make designs can hold clothespins, tiny tools, and more. Follow the instructions in these sewing tutorials to and apply them to fit your personal needs in your sewing room. You’ll absolutely love the finished product the each set of instructions yields.
- Wall Pocket Organizer
- Wall Organizer Tutorial
- Hanging Trash Bag
- Dirndl Clothespin Bag
- DIY Jewelry Organizer
- Locker Organizer
Other DIY Organizers
Sometimes our needs in our sewing rooms are so specific, it seems like no single tutorial exists to properly address these needs. For example, many of us suffer from (or rejoice over) overflowing collections of fabric. In numerous cases, there aren’t enough boxes or bins to stash that fabric, or even put those containers that do carry your precious prints. We absolutely loved this innovative approach to filing fabric from The Thinking Closet. It uses up that desk space you might never use! Find more creative ways to organize bits and pieces below.
- Filing Fabric
- Hanging Homework Tray
- Magnificent Magnetic Pockets
- Scrappy Armrest Pincushion Tutorial
- No Sew Design Board
- Colorful Card Holder
Helpful Hints to Clean the Clutter
When all of the sewing is said and done and you have all of the packages, boxes, bags and more that you could ever want, chances are you still have some stray threads around the room. For that finished look, try these helpful tutorials to keeping your sewing room looking squeaky clean.
What item in your sewing room would others say you have “too much” of?
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Well, I really can’t thik of anything that they would say there was too much of, More likely, they would say “Not enough of”, and they would be talking about how much room there isn’t in there. 🙂 Thanks so much for having this giveaway!
I have to many scissors. I was teaching an art class for children and I bought supplies for them to you. When the class was over I brought all the items home. So now I have a lot of craft items, but I really have way to many pairs of scissors.
They would defiantly say I have too much scrap fabric!! I love my scraps and am always looking for creative ways of using them! From my clothing projects to small projects. I LOVE finding beautiful fabrics!
Fabric.
Perhaps my fabric stash looks big to non-quilters, but to me, there never seems to be enough!
Fabric. I have a room full of nothing but fabric that I couldn’t resist due to it was dirt cheap
Definitely would say too much fabric and fabric swatches. I love rifling through remnants bins!
Probably fabric, but I don’t think I have enough!
fabric…. but I love it!
Besides lint and dust? I have too many piles!
Too much ribbon – I love using it in any project I can. Also, fabric. I love all the patterns and colors and will buy with all good intentions of using it.
Probably thread and patterns. I love collecting patterns.
Scissors! You cant have too many.
I have way too many books of different cute patterns that I want to sew. I just wish I had the time for all of them!
Take your pick, a 4 draw cabinet full of patterns, 30 52 gallon totes of fabric not counting the 15 bolts of fabric or over 3,000 embroidery designs. I can’t decide!
Fabric. Definitely fabric!
Fabric… I love fabric!!
scrap fabric and in their words junk
I guess I have too much fabric. My husband thinks I have too much fabric.
Scraps…I have way too many sizes of these pieces. But I always seem to “go to” them for a project when I need just a wee bit of color or contrast. i would hate to toss them then find it was just what I needed later on.
Buttons!
Too much scrap fabric. I hate to throw it out because numerous times I’ve found uses for little bits that I’ve saved for years. I now have 4 boxes of scraps.
My husband says I have too much of everything. He’s so confused.
I have too much fabric!
Others would say I have too much of everything. Me? Not enough of anything!
material, it is everywhere, im quilting as hast as i can, lol
Love the filing fabric. Great idea to store extra fabric I have laying around.
Ribbon. I have more than a lifetime supply
jeans pieces…my 3 boys wore out lots of jeans and I saved them for patches and a clothes pin bag.
jeans pieces my 3 boys wore out lots of jeans and I saved them for patches and a clothes pin bag.
Actually, I can’t think of anything anyone would say I have too much of. If anything, I need more supplies and definitely more fabric.
Definitely fabric. I am a fabriholic!! And proud of it!
I just started sewing again so don’t have to much of anything. My machine stopped so until I get another, I won’t be getting much.
I have been told that I have too much fabric, but how can you have too much fabric???
I have too many fabric scraps. I enjoy making rag rugs so I keep all scraps. I also have a sister that gives me scraps leftover from blankets her church group makes.
I have two many patterns and books.
fabric, of course! Most of it has been given to me, but a lot of it, I’ve collected over the years, always meaning to “do something” with it, but still haven’t gotten around to doing it. 🙂
I would have to say threads! I have bunches of them in so many colors. I don’t have enough yet but I do have a lot! LOL!
Buttons. I’m not sure why I like them so much.
Too many needles and pins. They are everywhere. Most of the needles are threaded and ready to go when I need to do a quickie, but, I never walk in there without my shoes on.
The item in my sewing room that others would say I have too much of is fabric. Lots and lots of fabric and fabric scraps. I keep all the scraps and ask other sewers for theirs. I am collecting odd blocks that people don’t want for an odd block quilt. I think it will look spectacular.
Fabric! I love collecting fabric and everytime I see something that catches my eye I can’t help but get it because I never know when I will have that ah-ha moment where I say I have the perfect fabric for that!
Just began quilting in the last six months so I guess too many ideas floating around in my head. Now to buy material and patterns and get to work.
Too much mending!
filing fabric!! So much better than drawer stacking. Thank you.
Non sewing friends will say too many WIPs!
Fabric so much fabric so little time
Mostly yarn and beads. I have 16 screw cabinets that contains 60 drawers each, and in each drawer is a different colored bead.
too much time with no one sewing and too much dust
I have a lot of sewing thread, embroidery thread, quilting thread. crochet thread, yarn, string embroidery floss I keep it in baggies, boxes and tins – it is everywhere and the colors are all mixed up I have thread in cones spools bobbins etc I can’t get enough