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Start your Spring Cleaning with Easy Sewing Projects!

March 16, 2014 by AllFreeSewing

Ah, spring cleaning. Every year it is a giant production that uses up weekends of healthy energy. You spend so much time organizing your life during these spring months just to end up right back where you started one year later. Don’t be discouraged! Instead, craft one of these easy sewing projects to keep your home organized! Say hello to warm weather with these spring cleaning ideas.

Get started by sewing a protective Adjustable Apron or one of these other 27 Free Patterns for Aprons. Follow this checklist for successful Spring Cleaning 2014.

Spring Cleaning Checklist

 

1. Take Out the Trash

20 Minute Clothespin Bag Let’s be real: the majority of spring cleaning involves throwing out all of that stuff you really don’t need. Say goodbye to those hoarder-like tendencies with the freeing action of throwing things away. While you’re at it, sew up an excellent new trash bag for disposing your junk in style. Try out the Hanging Trash Bag for a convenient solution. This trash bag is waiting at your side, ready for you to toss stuff into it. Another great option is the 20 Minute Clothespin Bag. Transform a plain old clothespin bag into a simple trash receptacle that’s surprisingly cute and practical.

 

 

 

 

2. Get Organized

Life Saving Collapsible Bin With the remaining items you keep, be sure to organize your home so the clutter doesn’t build like last year! Since we at AllFreeSewing have about a million sewing patterns for organization, I’ll go ahead an list just a few of our best:

1. Make a Bedside Organizer
2. Life Saving Collapsible Bin
3. Door Organizer
4. 8 Awesome DIY Organizers: Sewing Organizer Tutorials eBook

 

 

3. Dust Shelves

DIY Washable DusterNo house is truly clean if there is any lingering dust! Send those dust bunnies on their way with your very own DIY Washable Duster. This project is easy to make and perfect for spring. Don’t throw away this duster when you’ve finished using it! Wash it and reuse it for a green solution to your spring cleaning.

For another great duster that can be used over and over, check out the tutorial for these Reusable Swiffer Duster Cloths. This is the perfect way to use up your scrap flannel. Clean out your fabric scraps from your stash and create a new cleaning supply in the process.

 

 

4. Clean Floors

Washable Flip Mop Pads There’s no use in tidying up your space if your floors remain grimy. Make your own Washable Flip Mop Pads for your favorite floor duster. Instead of purchasing disposable pads for your flip mop, make your own for a fraction of the price. You’ll save money by washing these flip pads rather than throwing them out and buying new ones.

You can also upcycle some old socks to make another variation! The Reusable Swiffer Sweeper is a marvelous way to repurpose a pair of socks that you won’t wear again.

 

 

5. Don’t Forget the Car!

Cool Car Caddy Straps On To HeadrestLet’s not forget the space that serves as your second home! Spring cleaning doesn’t just involved cleaning out your house. Be sure to tidy up the family car, too! Organize your car with a few of these easy sewing projects. Make the Car Caddy for all of your on-the-go crafting supplies. Crafting a is a great way to stay occupied on long road trips, and this is a way to keep those crafting supplies organized! Be sure to keep those road trip snacks organized as well with the Cool Car Caddy Straps On To Headrest.

 

 

 

 

What is the messiest room in your house?

 

Filed Under: Sewing Tagged With: cleaning tips, Dana Byerwalter, organizational tips, sewn organizer, spring, spring sewing

Your Dream Sewing Room Come True: Free eBook on How to Organize

January 29, 2014 by AllFreeSewing

At AllFreeSewing, we’re big fans of talking about not only our favorite sewing patterns, but our sewing dreams. More often than not when we chat with readers about what their sewing wish is, they bring up a room for their giant fabric stash, sewing machine, and notions. We heard you, and we responded.

While every sewist in our quaint AllFreeSewing community may not be able to have a designated room in the house, there’s still a space where they keep their fabric, buttons, pins, and more. That’s why we created this brand new and free eBook, 11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your Room. You can download your very own copy of this eBook for free. It makes the perfect reference as you tackle your toughest clutter spots in your sewing area. Let’s take a peek at what you’ll find in the new favorite, shall we?

DIY Organizers

11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your Room
Whether they’re on your wall or table, organizers are a must-make for any sewist. Even if you’re just getting into the craft, you’ll find an overwhelming amount of fabric scraps from your first project. In this day and age it’s silly to toss precious pieces of fine silk, rayon, or cotton, so why not create a space to store them?

We had a blast pulling projects for this eBook that varied from typical decor crafts. In particular the Lovely Scissor Holder caught our attention as being wonderfully whimsical and completely necessary to saving those fabric scissors from being mixed up with the household ones.

Sewing Room Inspiration

11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your RoomWe’ve got another surprise in this eBook. Not only will you find excellent projects from which to redesign your space, you’ll also get a glimpse at how other designers utilized theirs. We fell in love with Christina from 2 Little Hooligan’s makeshift sewing station. Find gorgeous close-up images of this tastefully distressed port and follow suit. For those of us who don’t yet have the dream space for our treasured supplies, this inspiration is a goldmine.

11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your RoomSewing-Organizer-eBookDownload Your Free eBook Now!

It only takes a second to get your own copy of 11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your Room. There’s no reason to keep dreaming of your organized space; roll up your sleeves and join us as we prepare for the year with this helpful guide.

 

What does your sewing space look like?

 


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Filed Under: Free eBooks Tagged With: free eBook, how to organize your craft room, inspiration, Organization, sewing eBooks, sewing ideas, sewn organizer

National Sewing Month 2013: How to Organize Your Sewing Room

September 24, 2013 by AllFreeSewing

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.

  • Gathered Round Basket
  • Fabric Storage Boxes
  • Denim Fabric Basket Tutorial
  • Stash Buckets
  • Sewn Stash Baskets

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.

  • Wall Pocket Organizer
  • Wall Organizer Tutorial
  • Hanging Trash Bag
  • Dirndl Clothespin Bag
  • DIY Jewelry Organizer
  • Locker Organizer

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.

  • Filing Fabric
  • Hanging Homework Tray
  • Magnificent Magnetic Pockets
  • Scrappy Armrest Pincushion Tutorial
  • No Sew Design Board
  • Colorful Card Holder

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.

  • Cleaning up Stray Threads
  • Washable Flip Mop Pads
  • DIY Washable Duster
  • Love to Sew Machine Cover

 

 

What item in your sewing room would others say you have “too much” of?

 

 

Filed Under: National Sewing Month Tagged With: how to organize the craft room, National Sewing Month 2013, organizational tips, organize craft supplies, sewn organizer

Sewing Spring Cleaning and Organization Tools

April 8, 2013 by AllFreeSewing

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?

Filed Under: Sewing Tagged With: cleaning tips, craft organization, how to organize the craft room, organizational tips, organize craft supplies, sewn organizer, spring, spring crafts, spring sewing

Free for Download: 8 DIY Organizers eBook

February 8, 2013 by AllFreeSewing

As a crafter, you probably have tons of little spare supplies lying around. While a craft room bursting at the seams with supplies, tools and fabric is a crafter’s dream, the reality of having an overcrowded and messy work space is not. Instead of letting your craft room become a nightmare, find ways to improve your craft organization!

We’ve put together this free eBook, 8 Awesome DIY Organizers: Sewing Organizer Tutorials so you can find the organizer you need to help keep your space tidy. Whether you’re looking to keep the bills out of overstuffed drawers or create a system to finding those grocery coupons you cut out last week, the DIY organizers found in this eBook will be useful.

Download your free copy of the 8 Awesome DIY Organizers: Sewing Organizer Tutorials eBook.

 

 

Filed Under: Sewing Tagged With: eBook, Full Project Tutorials, Organization, sewn organizer

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