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Tired of fishing around in your purse to find a pen or your phone? Moe from Five Sixteenths shows how you can make a purse organizer out of a couple of placemats. This is such a smart idea! And easy… Read more ... 
This Wash & Wear Travel Pouch will help you separate dirty lingerie items from ones that are still clean. Art Gallery Fabrics shares a tutorial showing how to make it. It’s divided into two zippered pockets (zippers down each side… Read more ... 
Marni from Haberdashery Fun has written a tutorial showing how to make a mini jewelry roll. Clear vinyl zippered pockets will keep your jewelry organized when traveling. There are two larger pockets to hold necklaces or brooches, and two smaller… Read more ... 
Marni from Haberdashery Fun shows how you can a hanging pocket organizer. It’s made to slip over a clothes hanger, with pockets . You can use it at Christmas time to organize cards you receive in the mail. Or, make… Read more ... 
Emily from Nap-Time Creations shares a tutorial in the Bite Sized Sewing series at Craft Snob, showing how to make a fabric book organizer. It ties to a bed or chair and has four pockets to hold a child’s books. … Read more ... 
Chelsea from Get Your Crap Together shows how you can make a Headband Tower to keep your headbands from being a big ol’ jumbled mess, like they are on top of my daughter’s dresser. Instead of digging through a pile… Read more ... 
Marti from Sewlicious Home Decor shares a free pattern for making hanging organizers for your sewing or craft space. They’re fabric pockets that hang from a curtain rod. Use them to hold pattterns, essential notions, projects in process, you name… Read more ... 
Instead of relegating your purses to the back of the closet, why not keep them organized and out where you can access them? Alida from Alida Makes did that, making a purse organizer that hangs from the back of her… Read more ... 
Staci from Crafty Staci shows how to make a binder bandolier. It’ a fabric strip that wraps around the cover of a 3-ring binder. On the inside, elastic is stitched down at intervals, creating places to hold pencils and pens… Read more ... 
Palak from Make It Handmade guest blogs at I Heart Organizing with a tutorial showing how to make a throw pillow that will help get a handle on your sofa clutter. Specifically, the plethora of remote controls that always seem… Read more ... 
Rachel from Adventures of a DIY Mom made this fabric book to keep her embroidery threads organized. The cover is made from fabric, with a button and loop closure. The “pages” inside are zip top baggies. The clear bags make… Read more ... 
Katie from Punk Projects shows how she made an organizer for her sewing tools in an embroidery hoop. The hoop frames a set of fabric pockets so you can hang it on the wall. She gives dimensions to make… Read more ... 
Where do you keep your pattern weights? I keep mine tucked in a compartment in my sewing box. Nanny from NannyNotes2U has a better solution. She made her own pattern weight with magnets on the back so she can store… Read more ... 
This ice cube tray is supposed to make long skinny pieces of ice to fit in a water bottle, but Karent from Sew Many Ways uses it in to organize her sewing stuff instead. Go to her blog to see … Read more ... 
Staci from Crafty Staci shows how to make an organizer to hang from the arm of a rocking chair. It includes pockets sized to hold a Kindle (or other reader) and a remote control. A long pocket across the bottom… Read more ... 
