Discover How I Organized My Quilt Room for Under $20!
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- I picked up some inexpensive storage solutions and hacks for my quilting room from the Dollar Tree. I spent $20.11 to organize my quilt room to make my life just a little easier. These dollar store quilting hacks may just help you too!
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For the presser foot add some carpet tape or double sided tape also from dollar tree to stop it from moving. For the pink magazine holders I use for my patterns, all categorized, easy, applique, paper piecing, curved, etc. For the button hole foot you can cut one of the dividers out to make it fit. I personally don't like the thread racks. The thread can get dusty so I use plastic bins.
Awesome ideas! I thought about cutting a divider out for the buttonhole foot. The magazine holders would be great for patterns! I know some people really don't like the open thread holders, I don't notice too much dust personally.
I would have made a couple of those suggestions, but they beat me to it!
When you get a new mat, you can cut the old one into bolts or templates, or cover the whole thing with cotton batting and put it on the wall for a design board.
My fabric and projects are stored in 30-year-old Ikea cabinets with doors, with my fabric flat on the shelves and folded to fit the shelves. The shelves sagged over time so I cut 1”X2” boards to fit, wrapped them in contact paper to prevent the contact of raw wood to fabric. and just wedged them in there.
My thread fits in an old bed-side
table with 3 very shallow drawers. The drawers are divided with shoe box lids, and the thread lays flat by color. My patterns stand up in small Ikea file boxes, their lids might be in the thread drawers, lol!
I really enjoyed your video, I am glad that younger people are carrying on with our art form!
Our dollar store sells foam core board for $2 a sheet and I use that for design boards but the last time I bought some they had the foam core with a shiny plastic layer that made it into a white board. I bought two of those and made a hinge out of duct tape to join them together but to also allow them to close. I open it out on the floor and put fabric I want to cut and spray starch it until it is pretty wet. It keeps the starch of the tiles and carpet and saves me from looking for something to spray starch on.
I love the white and gray drawer dividers. I have them myself.
They are so handy, especially with the non-slip bottom! I need more of them to make dividers in more drawers
Thank you for sharing your finds at the Dollar Store. I keep the sticky roller handy to my ironing board to pick up loose threads following ironing blocks as well as other places around my room where loose threads are - like the cutting mat.
Will have to try the sliding foot pedal hack. 🤔Will now go check out your other posts. 👍🏻
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You found some good stuff. i got the same container that you put your presser feet into. i filled mine up with all the different sized wonder clips i have. it works great.
That's a great idea! I believe I'm going to have to get a couple more of those containers, they're really handy for small items
@@kayla_quilts same here. and i want a few of the other things you got. 🤔
There's a few more things I wanted to get, but I only had $20 on me, lol. Next time I run to town I'll see if they have anything good!
For Feet container I bought a plastic “fishing tackle” box from Canadian Tire.Canada) You can slide out the dividers to put larger feet in them, or other things too, works awesome!
That's a great idea! I'll have to grab one when they're on sale, I can always use compartmentalized storage!
The baskets shown at 2:30- I also have the same plastic drawer’s you show, the lip of the basket sits along the top of my drawer essentially making for a slide compartment in the drawer
I'll have to try that! Thank you! 🩷
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I use the smaller plastic totes for my fat quarters, pencil boxes for my machine feet for each machine. The flat baskets work well to keep all components of a project together. Have found the larger plastic totes at my $tree but it is rare
I am keeping my eyes peeled for the larger plastic totes! The smaller ones to store fat quarters is a great idea! I just got stocked up on some seasonal fabric that was on sale and I need a place to store it. Thanks for the great idea!!!
As a 4th generation seamstress, I never store my thread exposed. My baba, who taught me to sew, said the worst enemy of thread is dust. She always kept hers covered, I do too.
I keep mine out of direct sunlight. I know the sewing community is pretty split about leaving thread out or keeping it shut away. Mine are never really exposed for more than 6 months at a time, and some of my most expensive thread is kept in a drawer.
I have my sewing feet in that exact container
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You can actually take a sharp knife and cut one of the the dividers out of the plastic storage container to make the compartment larger so your larger foot will fit.
I contemplated that, but I was afraid I would leave sharp edges and cut myself but then i realized I probably could take some sandpaper to it... I will probably end up cutting it so the feet can all stay together. Thank you! 🥰
Where did you get the cutting mat in this video? I have a 24" x 36" mat and would like to have a big one like yours for squaring quilts. Thank you.
It is the Sullivan's 36x59 inch cutting mat from JoAnn Fabrics, but I'll be honest with you I hate it. It's not self healing, it has a horrible feel when cutting, and anything over two layers has to have two passes with the rotary cutter. I believe I am going to be replacing it with a 'Big Mat Cutting Surface' brand after I try one in person.
@@kayla_quilts Thank you for your honesty Kayla.
@Carlinda Trenholm very welcome! 🥰 I definitely won't recommend products that are subpar, and this cutting mat in every way is less than ideal. It's barely better than cutting directly onto the wood surface underneath, and it will be replaced ASAP!
I also think the Sullivan mat kills my rotary blades quicker!
@info seeeker Yes! My blades aren't lasting nearly as long since switching to the Sullivan mat! I can't wait for the quilt expo so I can try a Big Mat Cutting Surface in person
That bumpy, mesh like shelf liner keep the foot pedal from slipping.
It works amazing, I sewed a little yesterday without it underneath and my pedal was slipping around everywhere without it
Does anyone have any quilting hacks to add?
Hi Kayla. I have one: I use a square piece of batting to hold my presser foot in place. I just tape two sides (all 4 if preferred) of the batting with painter's tape and it doesn't move. Great ideas you shared.
That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing 🥰 I never thought to use batting as drawer liners, but I have a drawer that could use a non-slip bottom because everything moves around in it and I have a scrap that is the perfect size!
@Rose Can Craft awesome! I'll have to check it out! I'm running out of room to hang all my rulers on thumbtacks
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