Discover How I Organized My Quilt Room for Under $20!

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!

I am in the process of remodeling my unfinished basement into a quilters paradise, so look for videos of my process as well!

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[sewingSue]

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.

[conniebeane]

I purchased several shallow boxes in different sizes that have snap closures on all four sides (usually designed for food storage). These can be dropped without any risk of popping open and spilling the contents all over the place. I have designated each box for a specific purpose--basting, applique, binding, piecing, quilting--and each contains all of the things I need for that particular activity. The binding box, for instance, holds those little binding clips, the applique box has a package of applique needles and a box of those tiny applique pins, the basting box has my basting needles and a cone of basting thread, etc. Each box also contains a decent pair of scissors and a pair of reading glasses, as well as anything else I think I might need (thimble, needle threader, etc.) Whenever I get ready to work on a particular task (especially if I am going off-site), all I have to do is grab the relevant box and I'm ready to go. No scrounging around for the right needles, no forgotten glasses. Of course I make sure there's enough room in the box to add the specific type and color of thread I might need for a particular project.

[momistaken]

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!

[conniemurdoch]

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.

[SpeakTruthBeKind]

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. 👍🏻

[Carolmaizy]

I love the white and gray drawer dividers. I have them myself.

[deannamey]

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.

[infoseeeker]

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

[Sally-ihls]

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!

[barbarawaskom]

Brenda from Mount Scrap more told us about you . I like your channel already .

[sherrymyers]

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

[ourcreativebeehive]

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.

[phyllisdippert]

I have my sewing feet in that exact container

[carolemerson]

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.

[NolaTheAlamoChiliQueen]

That bumpy, mesh like shelf liner keep the foot pedal from slipping.

[carlindatrenholm]

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.

[kayla_quilts]

Does anyone have any quilting hacks to add?