♦You can't beat ready-made sewing
boxes for storing your sewing supplies. That's the obvious answer to organizing sewing supplies but not necessarily the
only answer.
♦You also can use
portable plastic tool boxes and fishing tackle boxes for organizing your sewing supplies.
Really they look quite similar to some sewing boxes. And that's because they
usually have hinged three tiered swing-out sections of compartments for
storage. And like sewing boxes, they have the handles so you carry them from
room to room in your home.
♦Another option to
hold sewing supplies is see-through portable compartment boxes. These could hold
small items like miniature bows, buttons and pins. Stacks and Stacks sell these.
6 Compartment Box
12 Compartment Box
18 Compartment Box
24 Compartment Box
♦Use plastic baggies
(like plastic lunch bags from the grocery store) to store and separate buttons
from the appliqués, etc. Each category of items gets its own zip up baggie
(Don't get tie bags or you'll always be looking for where you left the twist
tie.).
♦Then sort the plastic
bags in a way that makes sense to you and store them in a set of decorative
round hat boxes.
For instance, one hat box could be for zippers, snaps and
buttons. Another could be for fancy appliqués sorted into baggies by holidays or
type. Yet another hat box can just be full of loose spools of thread. If you get
a matching set of decorative hat boxes or decorative cylindrical storage boxes
that look like hat boxes in mix and match sizes, you can stack them on a table
or dresser to blend with your home decor. So you're storing your sewing supplies
in the open but guests don't know it. If you get confused about what sewing
supplies you want to
keep in each box, make a list of the contents for the box and tape it to the
inside of each lid. You'll know at a glance what sewing supply goes back into
which box.
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