Pattern Storage Hack: How To Store And Organize Your Sewing Patterns For Just $3
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2017
- Do you have sewing patterns spread all over the house? Have your kids started using them as coloring pages or walls for forts? Can you even find your sewing machine under all that mess?
Well here is a quick, easy, and CHEAP way to store your sewing patterns. For just $3, you can make a place for everything, so everything can be in its place.
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You crack me up every time! You're too much. Hey, I'm a chick - and I LOVE Duck Tape! (Have 4 brothers and the handiest Dad ever RIP) What a great idea - off to get the foam core, already have the world's largest roll of Duck Tape. God bless you and yours :)
Thanks so much Patricia!!
Not sure if anyone gives a shit but if you guys are stoned like me during the covid times then you can stream pretty much all the new series on InstaFlixxer. Been binge watching with my girlfriend these days xD
@Turner Tony yea, I have been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself :D
Oh my god, that must be the best sewing related intro i've ever seen lol
HAHA thank you! You can see the full version here: ruclips.net/video/LeVhuNlN990/видео.html
I’m a professional patternmaker and the best way most space saving way to store patterns is in a Manila envelope, or the ULine tykek ones for something prettier
You can fold your pattern and when needed again just iron the paper - no steam
I understand why you’d want to keep the paper flat but if you have hundreds of patterns the way you provided would be very costly and consume a lot of space.
I have transferred them onto poster board. Then I reinforce both sides with tape, and then punch a hole in that taped spot to hang them on a hook. Then I hang them on a clothing rack I got at Walmart. I only do that with patterns I use a lot. Like my favorite generic shirt pattern. Then I can use them over and over and they don't get thrashed. I write the pattern number and transfer all the markings and info to the tag board pattern.
I'm on a Dad Sews binge right now and I have to sew this is a GREAT idea! Storage is at a PREMIUM!
FootFrenzied Binge away!
What a great idea! I was brainstorming ways to store my growing stash of patterns neatly instead of just rolling them up. I'm off to make mine. Love your channel!
Storage solutions never get old, please keep ‘em coming!!
It's never too late to learn something new! Thank you and Blessings to you.
Love this idea. I sometimes use pant hangers from Value Village and hang patterns in the closet
Cool idea!
I just found your channel! Your opening IS EVERYTHING - FREAKING HILARIOUS!! Subscribed. Definitely gonna binge this weekend! Thanks
Love this! Just started using larger patterns and was trying to think what to use for storage! Ty!
You're welcome!
🌸 Dear God, I would need a whole other house to house my patterns if I stored them that way! HAHA! but for those special hand drafted ones, this is such a great idea. Thanks so mucj for sharing. 🌸
Love this idea as I have to iron my patterns every time I want to use them. Love this idea will do this soon.
Tag me with some pics on IG or FBook when you do!
Thank you for the idea; as a newbie I'm always looking for ways to improve. I also like your video very much - on topic, clear, and easy to follow as opposed to some other videos! Best!
Lexi H thanks so much! I truly try to make the best video I can for you, the viewer.
DUDE. Totally impressed. Way to solve a maddening problem that a LOT of us have! Thanks!!!
Thanks Nickie. Glad I could help!
i love the sew fail repeat thing :)) and the it crowd poster omg! just found this channel and already love it!
i usually fold patterns to A4 format and then iron them on lowest heat before using
Thanks. I am going to use this idea for patterns, stencils, and paint samples!
Brilliant idea. I've been pondering this problem for all the new patterns I've gathered lately. Snap a bulldog clip on the ends and things don't slip out!
Great idea
You saved my life! I have started getting cranky with the way my husband and child walk over my patterns, push them into a pile and so on. Now I can make my patterns disappear altogether from their reach. Thanks!
Just moved to a new house and this is going to be perfect. Thank you!
I love "The IT Crowd." I am a slacker, my patterns are still stored in the original envelopes. At one point I had slopers hanging from a clip hanger in my closet. I transfer modified patterns to poster board and trace them. Your foam board envelope idea might work well for storing those. Fun channel, I am glad I found you.
Thanks for stopping by. Watch out for FIRES AT SEA PARKS!
Love Dad Sews!!!! I discovered you trying to find interesting tutorials for my Fashion Design class. (my high schoolers love you!)
Rustina Sams Thanks so much! I kind of think that's the perfect audience for me hahahah. If you ever want to do a Skype session with your class, let me know. I'm also available for birthday parties (kidding). Also, it might be cool to feature your class in my brand new Sewists Spotlight series!
And by the way. I saved this video in my "odd but cool" folder😜👍🏼
I store mine folded or in a tube form. You just need to iron them back out and the lay flat again.
And they will iron especially well if you trace your patterns onto Pattern Ease!
Good idea! Never thought of anything even close to this.
Sooooo good idea. I am going to put it in practice. TY.
Great video! The part about the children finding the patterns was especially hilarious!
Yaaaasssssss!!!!! Thank you Dad Sews! I have just been pinning them to my wall...not enough space. This was my first video from you, consider me hooked!
I was just thinking about this the other day. So glad I saw this! I need to copy my patterns on to butcher paper (they are the thin tissue papers one from major pattern companies) and was wondering about storing them. This is the best (and cheapest) answer ever!
Glad it helped!
For patterns you find yourself revisiting a lot I suggest Bristol. I use this wonderful paper called Oaktag for my patterns. For school I had access to a rabbit punch to hang them- But I'm currently looking into other ways to hang them without access to a rabbit punch. Bristol/poster board is your friend for basic blocks if you get into drafting your own patterns too!
I subscribed as soon as I saw your intro. Love it! I just started a sewing channel too and I have so much tech stuff to learn! Great job!
You’re awesome! Love the pattern storage!
Thanks Janice!
Love this idea. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea but you need the air space around the fridge to keep the air flow good. Storing some place else is better. Thanks for sharing the idea.
LOVE your IT Crowd poster!!!
Thanks so much! Moss for Pres
Ahhhh great idea!!!! Thanks!
Thank you for this idea.
Most welcome!
LOVE this idea, Thanks!
Awesome! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
Thanks, I will be using this for method for sure. Great videos.
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i love the intro, love the background decor, what an awesome youtube discovery!
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Oh my gosh could you be any more hilarious! Thank you so much for this wonderful method!
Thanks for the kind words Kalee!
Good for you to sew for your daughter. I trace my patterns on those cheep plastic table clothes. Works fantastic easy to trace too
Great idea. Water proof as well!
I've heard that some people use plastic shower curtains.
Like a previous person commented, I use Swedish pattern paper from Amazon - besides all the strength issues noted, it FOLDS easily and I buy the large manila envelopes from Dollar Tree ( 5 for $1), label them and store my copied pattern pieces in them. If I can get to a copy machine, I will copy the pattern envelope and tape it to the manila one as well. I keep a larger wire basket to hold all my big envelopes, next to the bins for my regular patterns.
I just tried to buy an art portfolio but they don't come large enough. Then I thought "maybe I can make my own with wood or posterboard." Then I found your channel! Much cheaper and easier!
Very clever idea
I just used two poster boards and stapled the edges together on three sides, then covered that in masking tape. It's what my art teacher in high school had us do to protect our art projects.
Smart art teacher you had there!
You could also have about 4 inches between the boards and tape them off to create a binder type unit. So when or if you are an avid sewer it will have room toward the bottom for additional patterns. Or you can use a quarter size hole punch into the brown paper and hang them. I usually lay them out on fabric and either pin or weigh them down and chalk them out and pick up the pattern re-hook and just cut into the fabric along the chalked lines.
Gotham Seoul Agreed! Great idea.
OMG! I love this guy.....favorite line about kids finding patterns and then you have to kill them. Every parent's initial thought when they mess with our things. LOL
Mine is DON'T TOUCH MY SCISSORS!
Thanks so much!!
Yessss I need to do this! Until I find a flat file cabinet. I continue to search on marketplace!
That’s brilliant!
Hahahah. I’ve never seen a video by you before but I subbed just for that hilarious dad sews intro. You have a beautiful family.
Thank you so much! Glad to have you drop by.
Office Space....nice!
Brilliant! Great Video. Subscribed. Fun to watch too thank you.
Thanks for stopping by!
DAD SEWS!! This is soo awesome, thank you!!!
Thank you!
Love ur idea & I will be making one of those
Awesome Sandra! They work GREAT!
Ha ha...gotta love ya & your awesome videos! I am soooo gonna do this! My son is a duct tape addict...😜 Maybe I can get him to "tape me up a few of these"! 😂
YES! Have him help. That's a great project for kids.
Love it! Thanks.
For commercial patterns, I use comic short boxes and bag and board the patterns like a would for comics. For big patterns you might be able to score an old blueprint cabinet (draftman's cabinet/plan cabinet) for a reasonable price.
Fold it up or roll it up, store in tube or freezer bag. Iron the pattern (without steam). That's how I learned in school
Great idea! You are so right about not wanting the pattern pieces to curl or fold.
My question is how are you going to know which pattern is stored in which portfolio? It's going to be a pain in the neck to try to find them unless you figure out how to label the folders.
OMG YES I love this channel!!!
Light weight Pellon works even better, and it’s easy to mark on them with a laundry marker, then fold them up, and put away, when taken out to use you can iron all the wrinkles out of it! It will forever!
Great idea ! Awe duck tape wonderful
Thanks Patty!
Great idea!
Thanks Christianne. (close naming buddies)
Thankfully most of my patterns are digital....so many things to organize in sewing area....adding this to the list!
Best idea I've seen!
Thanks for the idea! I subscribed. :)
Awesome, thanks Clara!
I use artist's vellum to trace patterns. I fold my vellum and store it in a big ziplock bag with my original pattern. Sometimes I iron the traced pieces before cutting out the fabric. 😁 You are right about rolling up the traced pattern being a "bad idea"! Vellum "remembers"!
Sewing in Trifocals - Alison Defrese awesome tip!
great idea!
Thanks RD!
Great idea
Thank you!
Great idea and I like your style. I'm like you: always dropping stuff, knocking stuff over etc. And just laugh and keep going. Sometimes you can find foam core at art supply recycling places. They'll have somebody else's poster on one side, but so what?
I live in an RV. tension rod across the back of my 4.5 foot clothes closet. British pattern hooks (or shower hooks, whatever) hang all pieces of one pattern together.
nice!
Good ideas
Yesterday I was thinking How am I goning to store my patterns?
as soon as I open YT your video was recommended to me.
thank you
mayrajscortes PERFECT! Always great to hear
Cute family!!!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I print my pattern, use it, and usually discard it. no storage problem.. If I think I will want to use the same pattern again, I cut it out of pattern tracing paper (non woven cloth, "red dot" or such. It takes much less room and stores in a zip lock baggie. If I have discarded the pattern and later decide I want to make it again, I print and assemble another copy. Still easier than storage.
great idea.
Thanks!
I love it for keeping them together and uncreased, but what if you have a ton of patterns that you use often? my weekly use patterns probably number in the 20-40 range...should I just put 2-3 per cardboard contraption?
I wasn't sure where you were going at first but I stayed with you and I like it! To tell the truth, I almost missed the building part of your demonstration because I was so stunned by the tri-fold thing. I have one of those in my closet right now. Can it be so simple? And has it been there all along? I had to shake myself out of dream before I could pay attention to the rest.
I also happen to have black Foam Core in my closet just waiting for a purpose! The other things I have are duct tape and a bunch of unruly patterns that need to be wrangled. I'm gonna get to work right now.
I particularly like the thought of including dividers. Do you think including a spine at the fold might allow for more space?
That could add a bit more room. i was aiming for thin.
I have taken this idea very seriously and have been using it very effectively in my work space. I do a lot of repeats certain patterns, often in multiple sizes. These patterns need to be readily available yet out of the way. Most importantly they need to be cared for properly. This method of organization was literally a perfect fit for my process and my space. I now have all my regular patterns in 4 foam core folders (all black of course 😉). I can fit several patterns in each folder if I separate them with a sheet of news print. I am able to stack mine flat because my cutting table has the perfect space underneath where I can slide them in like cookie sheets into the oven. There's room for dozens more in there too. It's a perfect use for an otherwise difficult space.
Since viewing this video it has become a pleasure to look through my patterns and finding the one I am looking for has never been easier. They're also in better shape and easier to work with than before in the two weeks since I started storing them this way.
I can't thank you enough for this gem!
Hello... I just found your channel and this storage pattern... great idea... thank you. Btw... have you any idea how to store leather or vinyl... #Greating from Indonesia....
Thanks! I would probably store it on a roll, the way you'd find it in a store. I definitely would not fold/crease it. You also need to make sure it isn't stored somewhere where it will dry and crack.
Good luck!
You can buy 32 x 40" foam core board at Hobby Lobby.
Nice, but I use a four draw file cabinet. But this is good to.
I use clothes hangers with clips.They hang flat and each pattern is labeled, easy to find.
Hey, iron your pattern. I iron mine all the time when they have creases and fold marks also my rolls of paper lay flat when ironed. low setting. you will be amazed how this works. so now I make Large envelopes to store my folded patterns.
You're a riot love your videos and it's ok to make mistakes catcha latter👁
Runs to Dollar Tree
Great idea and if you do multiple patterns you could put the picture of the pattern on the outside so you know what's in it. #ductapeftw
SUPER idea!
I appreciate your style. However, I sew, fail, curse, repeat. ;)
Thank you! I would too if the camera wasn't rolling hahahahaha!
That was my mother, ha ha...
Dad said derrière. 😁
They won't slip in there when you put beside your fridge? They'll stay laid open and flat? I hang mine on hangers but I am running out of room - thank you!
Argh! I just rolled up my latest maxi dress pattern as my sewing area becomes the spare room when we have visitors :( Has anyone in the UK found this board at a good price? Thanks for a great video.
There's GOT to be poster board or project board somewhere, right? You can always use a big box, which you cut into pieces.
I like Swedish tracing paper.
LadyWeasel haven't heard of that before.
I hadn't until a couple of weeks ago. It comes in a roll and you can... are you ready for this?! Sew it, wash it, iron it!!! 😎
I got mine off of Amazon.
LadyWeasel I will definitely check it out.
I love Swedish tracing paper too folds neatly into Manila folders and can be pressed before using
Gotta love dollar tree
I have 4 kids. I LIVE for Goodwill and dollar Tree.
Also, WHERE did you get that IT Crowd poster??
Google IT CROWD NES Game
you re funny! how can you only have 3K subs?!
Thanks so much, Quan!
i fold mine and put them in 9x12 envelopes.
But straightening/ironing them is so frustrating!
I would do this, but I have a folding table on the side of my refrigerator in my very small apartment
I fold my patterns up when I'm finished with my project
I hate folding them though.... ironing. Uggh
I was just thinking. It's easier to fold and put back in its package. I'll use this video idea for something else I just thought of.