Link Love: Organizing Your Crafts
Posted by Caley on January 7th, 2010 at 05:00am
Yesterday, I wrote about how you can Organize Your Inspiration by cleaning up your craft area and creating an ideas book or board. Today, I would like to share some bloggers with great ideas for organizing their crafts.
- First off, we have to give a shout-out to Crafty Storage, the blog dedicated entirely to storage ideas for crafters. Although the blog has not updated recently, you should scroll through all the submissions for inspiration. I love this idea for using empty CD cases/Jewel cases to store clear stamps.
- Unexpected craft storage ideas from oneofakindgiftideas.blogspot.com including turning a Shoe Cubby into a cutting station or portable file into scraps storage.
- Mandi Ehman of www.organizingyourway.net talks about creating organized Arts and Crafts boxes for kids. These boxes can be pulled out anytime and have a variety of activities with just the right supplies. Can I have one?
- Make these adorable bobbin cards from thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com to store scrap ribbons and fabric. Hang from a large key-ring.
- Archiver’s has a great list of ideas and products for organizing your craft space, including this nifty desktop organizer.
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4 Comments for Link Love: Organizing Your Crafts
1. LilacEarthFire | January 7th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Trust me when I say getting all your supplies in order is the way to go when your ready to finally sit down and start a craft. I have many totes and boxes to keep all my little treasures in. I also keep a big binder full of projects I want to do and another one with projects I have already done. I even made myself a CD with projects I find online!!
2. Rondell Jenkins | January 7th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I use shoe boxes to organize my materials for my craft projects. Cause them Tupperware 2 expensive.
3. Mandi @ Organizing Your Way | January 7th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Thanks so much for including my arts & crafts boxes in your round up. The rest of those pictures make me want to start a new project…any new project!
4. Char55 | January 9th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
If you have a spare closet (or a closet in your craft room), use hanging ZIPPERED sweater bags for your yarns. Be sure to get the ones with the clear fronts. They usually have 6-8 shelves and you can easily fit 8 to 10 skeins of yarn on each. I have 3 in my craft room closet and I also have a zippered hanging shoe bag for my trims, crochet cotton thread, buttons and other crochet tools.
If you don’t have a closet to spare, those “shoes under” underbed storage units would work as well…should be able to get a couple skeins of yarn into each compartment.
Using zippered storage with clear fronts keeps your yarn dust free and you can see how much you have and what colors you have without having to open it or dig through cardboard boxes.
For my crochet magazines I bought those 3-ring plastic holders. The magazine slips through the slot in the holder and then the holder goes into a 3-ring binder. You can slip the magazine out any time you want to work on a pattern. A 2-inch binder will easily hold up to 3 years of magazines (depending on how many issues you get per year)
See these links for pictures of these items:
Magazine organizers:
http://www.wdrake.com/WalterDrake/Shopping/ProductDetail.aspx?CID=Home&SCID=Home+Office&ProductID=0000006293
Zippered hanging sweater bags:
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=10207622&RN=303&KSKU=111231
Shoes Under:
https://shoesunder.com/
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