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Want an Everything Mary Complete Sewing Storage Collection? Win One!

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You’re getting picked up in an hour for a weekend with your significantly older cousins, and while you’re excited for the reunion, you know there will be a lot of downtime at night (everyone retires early on the farm). What do you bring to do? Your latest finds from the library aren’t terribly captivating, nor is solitaire after fifteen rounds. Your eyes alight on your sewing machine. A later model, it isn’t too heavy or very loud, but how will you transport it?

Everything Mary Complete Sewing Storage CollectionOK, so maybe this isn’t your exact scenario, but if you sew you’ve most likely had some need for machine transport. In such cases where protective gear for your favorite machine is necessary, the editors at AllFreeSewing happily recommend products from Everything Mary. Integrating contemporary style into craft storage containers, these products offer the best in terms of aesthetics and functionality.

For sewing enthusiasts like ourselves, Everything Mary imagines every accessory for your machine possible. From the basic necessities like the Sewing Machine Cover and Square Sewing Box, to more innovative products like the Rolling Sewing Tote, this merchandise is on every sewist’s wish list.

Obviously you want these accessories, but beyond merely looking fabulous Everything Mary’s products are practical for the typical sewist’s lifestyle. You don’t have to be in the scenario above to understand the value of a good sewing machine cover. With the dual capability of keeping dust out of your machine and storing notions in its pockets, this machine cover is, in a word, ideal. If you’re in need of some overall sewing room organization, a sewing box like the one from Everything Mary can handle even your fabric stash. Keep the clutter neatly contained with this box, which includes a space for your spare pins and needles underneath the lid. Are you the traveling type? The Everything Mary Rolling Sewing Tote keeps the standard model securely in place, allowing for easy transportation of more than just your sewing machine. Take your entire project along to a weekend away, a trade show, or even when transferring sewing rooms in the house.

Everything Mary

 

Everything Mary Complete Sewing Storage CollectionEverything Mary satisfies a basic sewist’s needs with their innovative and stylish products, and AllFreeSewing is thrilled to announce an opportunity for you to win all three of the aforementioned goodies this month! Until April 24th, you can enter the Everything Mary Complete Sewing Storage Collection giveaway once a day, every day. Normally not sold together, one lucky person will win the Everything Mary Sewing Machine Cover, Square Sewing Box, and Rolling Sewing Tote for free!

How do you transport your sewing machine?

National Sewing Month 2013: How to Organize Your Sewing Room

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It’s Day Twenty-Four of National Sewing Month! Too see the daily blog posts, projects of the day, and more National Sewing Month details, click here.

National Sewing Month 2013

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!

Stash BucketsSewn 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.

Wall Pocket OrganizerHanging 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.

Filing FabricOther 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.

DIY Washable DusterHelpful 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?

 

 

Sewing Spring Cleaning and Organization Tools

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For some of you, spring cleaning may be the most exciting time of the year. For others, myself included, it’s a terrifying confrontation with a year’s worth of junk. For the benefit of crafters and cleaners alike, here are some projects from AllFreeSewing that should serve as home cleaning remedies. Whether you need to organize your house or evict pounds of dust from it, these craft organization ideas should make your journey to spring cleanliness easier. Look around you and admit that some extra ideas for home organization couldn’t hurt. You know that once you effectively master the mess in your home, you can enjoy a guilt-free spring. Ready for some ideas? Here they are:

Do-it-Yourself-CleaningDIY Microfiber Cleaning Slippers

Try out homemade cleaning remedies from AllFreeSewing like this these Washable Flip Mop Pads. There are tons of ways to make your own cleaning supplies. If you’re wondering how to remove dust from your home, these DIY Microfiber Cleaning Slippers from Housing a Forest are also a creative way to do it.

I also love this DIY Washable Duster. DIY Washable DusterOne: because it looks cool. Two: because you can actually reuse this DIY duster instead of throwing it away after every use. It lets you spring clean and be green!

 

Crafting Organization Systems

Closet cleaning is one of the worst kinds. It’s common knowledge that the closet is the real trash can of a room. Like a black hole it swallows an enormous amount stuff, unbeknownst to you. The problem is you can live without most of the items in your closet, but you choose to keep them. This spring is a time to enforce some organization systems into your closet. This Hanging Jewelry Organizer, for example, will keep your jewelry neatly in one place. Learn how to sew pockets to fit every kind of accessory you have. This Mail Organizer is also a clever closet cleaning DIY organizer. Mail Organizer Tutorial

Pretty Painted PegboardI found this awesome Pretty Painted Pegboard from Sew Fearless. If you’re an avid crafter, this project may be worth the work. The weather is heating up so you can make this in your garage and really enjoy spring cleaning!

 

 

Organizational Tips for the Neglected Car

Unfortunately, you may have noticed that your accumulated junk doesn’t only stay in your house. If you’re ever embarrassed to have someone in your car, you know what I mean. A friend slides into the front seat to meet a pile of papers, an ice scraper (even though the snow melted a month ago), a pair of shoes, a sandwich, a roll of toilet paper- these items might be different in your car.

Try enforcing similar organization systems in your car that you use in your home. For example, this Car Caddy is a sewing project for intermediate-level seamstresses who need a place to put the items in their car. Making car caddies like this one will also teach you how to sew pockets. It’s learning a sewing technique and getting organized at the same time. Cool Car Caddy

In my search for cleaning solutions to the car I also came across this excellent DIY sewing project. The Hanging Trash Bag will serve its purpose dutifully in your vehicle. You always need a place to put greasy take-out containers, napkins or baby diapers on the road. What’s great about this trash bag is it doesn’t even look like a garbage can; it’s actually pretty.

Do you have any spring cleaning tips?

Craft Rooms Exposed Series: Kara Jones

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Welcome to another issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.

Today’s featured designer: Kara Jones, MotherHenna.com

How to Organize Your Craft Room: 15 Room Tours and DIY Organization Ideas from Your Favorite Bloggers.

 

For of Kara’s craft room, download our free eBook, How to Organize Your Craft Room: 15 Room Tours and DIY Organization Ideas from Your Favorite Bloggers.

 

 

Want to know more about Kara?  Read all about her on her FaveCrafts designer profile.

 

Craft Room Tips and Tricks:
Using shoe racks and hanging mesh/cloth shelves helps me be able to see what is in storage.  Plus it gives me space to rotate out supplies from the tables if I need more table top space to work a particular project.

How to Organize Your Craft Room: 15 Room Tours and DIY Organization Ideas from Your Favorite Bloggers.

Have you used a hanging shoe rack to organize your craft room?

Craft Rooms Exposed Series: Debra Quartermain

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Welcome to the fifth issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.

Today’s featured designer: Debra Quartermain, DebraQuartermain.com

Craft Room Tips and Tricks:
I like using pretty boxes to hold like items. When crafting I can just bring over a box to my counter containing trims or buttons or ribbons etc to choose what works well with my current project. Decorative boxes and baskets stack and take up less space. I keep felt and bulky fabrics in large stacked baskets organized by fabric type and color. Smaller baskets hold cottons each one holding a color family. I keep scissors in a divided basket separating fabric and paper scissors. I like my space to be pretty even in the midst of a crafting, sewing flurry when things get wildly creative and messy!

 

 

 

 

Craft Rooms Exposed Series: Sara From Posh Pooch Designs

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Welcome to the fourth issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.

Today’s featured designer: Sara Sach, Posh Pooch Designs

How does a love for dressing up dogs turn into a career? Find out Sara turned her passion into a full time job on her AllFreeCrochet designer profile.

Craft Room Tips and Tricks:
Here are a few pics of my Craft room – yarn room, as my hubby calls it.  Organization is the key for me. My main craft is crochet and yarn, I design crochet patterns and items for the pooches. I need to find the right yarns and embellishments quickly.  So I use the clear drawer style bins to sort my yarns, as well as the big Clear bins for over stock (yarn I got on sale!) I love yarn, all types…I have been called a yarn addict and a yarnavour, as well as a yarn hoarder, but I love yarn and always have a project in mine when I purchase it.

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Craft Rooms Exposed Series: Jenny from Craft Test Dummies

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Welcome to the third issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.

Today’s featured designer: Jenny Barnett Rohrs, Craft Test Dummies

How does a board-certified music therapist become a full-time crafter? Find out why Jenny made the switch on her FaveCrafts designer profile.

Craft Room Tips and Tricks:
I like to use recycled/repurposed items when organizing my craft room. For my most-used ribbons, I thread the spools onto a pants hanger. The swing-out arms make it easy to load as well as switch out when I use them up.  For my day-to-day crafting essentials, I use an old library card catalog from a school. They were switching over to a digital system, and these were going to be trashed! Lucky for me, my mother-in-law rescued them for me and now they hold my stamp pads, inks, jewelry-making supplies, and punches- everything I need to keep on-hand for daily crafting!

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Craft Rooms Exposed Series: Michael Sellick

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Welcome to the second issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.

Today’s featured designer: Michael Sellick, The Crochet Crowd

Want to know what motivated Michael to share his creativity on YouTube? Check out his profile on FaveCrafts.

Craft Room Tips and Tricks:

My crafts are mostly yarn and I organize them by brands instead of colors. In projects, I usually don’t switch brands. My logic is that if I know all brands are in one slot and I don’t see a color I need, I know I need to replace it or think of something different. Many people have told me to organize by color but I can see my stash being ripped apart just to see if the colour bin actually has the brand I need.  I also make sure I have a lot of yarn of different shades to ensure I got my basis covered, especially with scrap-ghans.
 

The Tour:

 

 

Craft Rooms Exposed Series: Pat Sloan

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Welcome to the very first issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series!  As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room.  Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines!   And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.

Today’s featured designer: Pat Sloan, PatSloan.com

Want to know how a computer programmer became a quilter?  Check out her profile on FaveCrafts.

Craft Room Tips and Tricks:

How do you organize your craft room? My studio is all the quilt things I use most of the time. Finished quilts, books, and other craft supplies are not stored here, the room is too small!

What are your best-kept organizational secrets?  I prefer to keep my fabric in bins and use similar colors (red or red/white). That way I reduce visual clutter. I spend 12 hours a day in this room working and I like it tidy.

Favorite storage products or tips? I do have a scrapbook ‘tower’ for my threads. I have a lot of thread.. wink!

 

The Tour:

 

 

Crochet

Jewelry

Knitting

Paper

Sewing

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