Modern organizers hold a bunch of all kinds of little things, tools, fixtures and materials. For many hundreds of years, women all over the world have been engaged in various types of needlework. Even then, the girls needed somewhere to store tools, appliances used in creative activities. So the first organizer for needlework appeared. With their own hands then they made a lot of everything, including organizers. Let it be called then differently, its essence was the same as in our time.
Creative ideas
In the organizer there are always many pockets, often transparent, in which you can see where what lies. The form can be any. It all depends on your imagination and on your needs.
If you need to somehow store floss threads, you can wrap them on the same clothespins, pencils or wooden sticks, put them in a glass. To store knitting needles, hooks, scissors, it is convenient to use cans, mugs, glasses, having previously lined them with fabric, providing additional pockets from the outside.
To create a beautiful and convenient organizer, it is not necessary to be able to sew, you can tie a casket out of threads or glue a box for small items from thick materials and cardboard.
Master class: do-it-yourself wall-mounted organizer
This is not at all difficult. To make such an organizer for needlework with your own hands, you will need:
- The main fabric is 55 cm wide, the length is as you wish.
- Lining fabric - the same size.
- Fabric for pockets - denim or other dense.
- Fabric for appliqués and decoration of the organizer - optional.
- Threads for sewing.
- Sewing machine.
- Pencil or remnant for cutting parts.
- Eyelets, a clothes hanger or a wooden beam - depending on how you mount the organizer to the wall.
Before you begin, consider how many pockets and what sizes you will need to store your belongings.
Operating procedure:
- Cut the pockets of the required size, as much as you need to store your tool. Remember to add seam allowances to the workpieces.
- Fill the pockets on the main fabric and outline their location in the finished product.
- Measure the required size of the main fabric, adding allowances for the seams from below and on the sides, as well as for fastening from above.
- Measure out exactly the same piece of lining fabric.
- Work the edges of the pockets with a zigzag seam or simply fold and hem the edges so that the fabric does not crumble.
- On organizers you can often see pockets with folds on the sides. Doing it or not is up to you. If there is a fold, then the pocket blank should not be rectangular, but in the form of a trapezoid, expanding upward.
- Sew pockets to the main part.
- Sew the lining on the sides and bottom to our organizer.
- Sew a clothes hanger, a wooden beam on top of the product or install eyelets.
- Mount the organizer on the wall. Decorate as you wish.
Master class: matchbox organizer
We will learn how to make organizer boxes for needlework. With our own hands we will make a box of matchboxes. This box can be used to store sewing needles, buttons and other small sewing accessories.
We will need:
- Scrapbooking paper.
- PVA glue.
- Ruler.
- Beads for pens.
- Scissors.
- Hot glue gun.
- Decorative flowers, berries, twigs to decorate the casket.
- Matchboxes.
Operating procedure:
1. Remove the matches from the boxes. Put the inner parts of the boxes aside.
2. We glue together their outer parts. The number of boxes is selected depending on the size of the future organizer. Under the press, the glue dries faster, so think of it in advance than pressing the glued parts of the box.
3. You can do one row of boxes or several. Depending on the location of the boxes and the number of boxes, we can create a unique organizer for do-it-yourself crafts. The photo below shows simple boxes with three drawers.
4. On the scrapbooking paper, draw rectangles with the dimensions of the upper and side parts of the box. Cut the workpiece. Blanks can be decorated with appliqués as desired.
5. For pasting the outer side of the boxes, we need rectangles 1 x 3.5 cm in size.
6. Glue the box and boxes with decorative paper.
7. Using a thread and a needle, sew caskets to the drawers along the bead - this will be a handle.
8. Insert the boxes into the box.
9. Decorate the finished box-organizer with decorative flowers and berries as you wish.
10. The organizer box from matchboxes is ready.
Conclusion
The variety of organizers never ceases to amaze us. These are pockets for beads, and a cosmetic bag with knitting needles and hooks, and a needle book, and an organizer bag for needlework. With your own hands to make such accessories is not only cheaper, but also more pleasant. So the thing will turn out unique, reflecting the identity of its mistress. Armed with imagination and patience, any novice craftswoman can make an organizer for herself to store needlework.