It’s Day 2 of Organization Week here on Seams and Scissors, and instead of bringing you just one tip like we usually do on Tuesdays, we’re bringing you a whole bunch! I’ve gathered up our best organization tips from cleaning to clutter-busting, so you can check them out below and whip your sewing stuff into shape. Once you learn some of our best tricks, you can work up one of the free sewing patterns for organizational supplies that I’ve included!
#SewOrganized: Our Best Organization Tips for Your Sewing Supplies
Fabric Organization Tips
Sometimes the only thing holding you back is that you have more fabric than you know what to do with! Here are our best tips for how to store your fabric to make the most out of your space.
+ other ways to keep your fabric organized!
Make Your Own Organizers
Once your fabric is out of the way, it’s time to find space for all the other sewing supplies you might have lying around. These easy sewing tutorials will show you how to make organizers for everything from scissors to spools.
- Storybook Needle Case
- Simple & Sweet Sewing Organizer
- Easy DIY Magnetic Pin Dish
- Pretty Pincushion Jar
Cleaning Tips
Now that everything is in its place, you can focus on cleaning up! Dust makes its way into the tiniest of spaces. Check out our techniques for cleaning a sewing machine as well as your iron!
- How to Clean the Outside of Your Sewing Machine
- How to Clean Your Iron
- The Complete Sewing Machine Cleaning Tutorial
… but don’t start cleaning your machine without this handy tip!
If you haven’t already, don’t forget to enter our giveaway on the main Organization Week post – you have until January 22 to do so!
Getting in the Organization Week spirit? Share your decluttering, sewing projects, or craft spaces with us on social media using the hashtag #SewOrganized !
And let us know:
What’s the most useful organization tip you’ve learned?
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I just came upon your site and am so happy to find it! YES!!! I try to stay cleaned up but productive at the same time “which is hard” because you want to spend all the time sewing; you have to clean up as you go along or will over whelmed with it all each day you don’t clean up and put away. That’s it clean up as you go along and keep your supplies in clear baskets or jars or silverware trays in your drawers to keep things all together. Thank you for letting me share.
The most valuable organization tip i have is to keep the items you use near the space where you use them! How do you figure this out? Easy. While working on a project, are the things you need easy for you to grab abd go? Do you always know where to go to get it? Is cleaning up after a project easy or drudgery? If you can find it, use it, put it up and easily accomplish this, things are in a good spot for you. If it takes forever to “unbury” what you are looking for or to clean up, you need some relocating. Experiment until you find what works for you!
Just do it! All the organizing tips, and tricks don’t do much good if I don’t DO IT…. and keep on doing it! I’m the worst on my own and have to keep reminding myself of this!
I hate to waste even the smallest scraps so make quilts for the preemie babies at the hospital. I might start with a left-over block , then add rows log-cabin style until the desired size is obtained.