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EASY DIY Sewing Supply Organizer, It's Tool and Technique Tuesday!

3/1/2016

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What does an embroidery hoop plus fabric, plus a glue gun make?
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AN EASY DIY SEWING SUPPLY ORGANIZER!!

No kidding!  It takes about 20 minutes to make (after supplies are assembled).
​You can sew it or make it no sew- your choice!
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What You Will Need:
  1. A basic wooden embroidery hoop ( I got mine at Lens Mill Store for $3.49)- 9" in diameter but you could use any size and change up the size of the fabric accordingly (you need 2" extra fabric to hoop size)
  2. 2 Pieces of fabric ( about 11 x 11" square) one to contrast the other (sewing themed, craft themed is wonderful), one is for the pocket and one is for the background
  3. A glue gun with 1-2 glue sticks
  4. A Frixion pen
  5. Pinking shears or a pinking blade (optional)
  6. Scissors
  7. A ruler
  8. Cutting Mat (optional)
  9. A sewing machine (optional- yes optional!)
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How to make it:
  1. Gather 2 pieces of fabric (mine are orange batik and a sewing themed fabric)
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my fabric selection
2. Press your fabric and spray it with a spray starch to give it body. I used my homemade spray starch see this blog post here
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ironing with natural spray starch
3.  Fold the fabric for the pocket in 1/2 wrong sides together, lay it right sides together on top of the background fabric and  "Audition" it in the hoop for placement.
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"auditioning" the fabric
4.  Take your fabric out of the hoop and attach the fabrics together with glue or sewing ( I sewed a line just beyond the hoop pinch line to attach them)
Trim away the excess fabric leaving about 2" beyond the hoop size to upholster to the back. Use pinking shears or a wavy blade to cut edges and avoid fraying.
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trimming the excess
5. With a ruler and Frixion pen mark lines for pockets and  top stitch lines  through all layers to make pockets for Rotary cutter, pens, scissors etc.  My lines were 3" on centre, 3/4" and 1" . 3" for the rotary cutter 3/4" for pens and 1" for small scissors.  If you did not want to sew, simply keep one large pocket with no small channel pockets, no top stitching required
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marking with a Frixion pen and a ruler
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see lines on the pocket above
6. Once the top stitching of the lines are done, put it in the hoop and tighten the screw to hold in place, glue excess fabric tight to back edge with a glue gun.
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gluing the excess fabric
7. Place items to organize in your pocket and proudly display in your sewing/activity space and enjoy!
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Happy Tuesday Everyone and Welcome to March!

 I hope you try this very easy tutorial!!  

​Send in your pictures to rlbogaert@gmail.com 😊
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