| Clever Organizing and Easy Storage Help |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-107 |
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Sewing expert Lynne Farris and Sandra Betzina, host of HGTV's Sew Perfect, share some great tips to keep your sewing projects and supplies neat and organized. Lynne creates storage from a plastic laundry basket for each project. She keeps all the fabric, notions, trims and everything needed for a project in one basket. She finds the basket especially helpful when work on the project is interrupted for a few days. To keep pattern pieces organized, Lynne pins them to large rectangles (2' by 3') of fabric-covered foam board hung on a wall. This keeps them in one handy place. For pattern pieces she uses over and over, Lynne fuses cut-out tissue patterns to cardboard and uses them as templates, holding them down with her hand while tracing the appropriate markings onto fabric. Sandra uses a laundry basket to store leftover pieces of fabric that can be used as a contrasting lining on cuffs or collars. Lynne stores crushable fabric on an expandable plastic laundry-drying rack. The racks can be attached to a wall and used for fabrics that would not usually be folded, such as velvet and interfacing. A wallpaper tray is ideal for storing rolls of ribbon, trims and anything else that comes on a spool. The tray is an odd shape that is easy to tuck away in a corner. Or use a length of guttering mounted to a wall. Sandra uses small baskets for storing packages of sewing-machine and hand-sewing needles. Use another small basket for sewing-machine feet.
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