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Today’s Project
On the twelfth day of our 12 Days of Christmas in July Giveaway, my true love gave to me…these Organization Tips from Creative Options!
Being a crafter means lots of crafting supplies around the house. However, a love of craft does not doom you to a life of messy living! Keep all those crafting odds and ends organized with these great DIY projects:
Imagine a simple project like this pencil organizer for all your crochet hooks or knitting needles.
These wire mesh baskets are perfect for holding craft supplies while easily allowing you to see what’s inside; and when you make them yourself, you can customize them to any size you need.
A small zipper pouch like this could be just the thing for keeping track of smaller craft supplies like thread, beads, string, or wire.
If you have a lot of flat craft supplies, such as stencils or craft paper, consider this three-ring binder project as an easy and affordable way to keep everything in one place.
Spinning-Rack Inspired Binder Storage
If you have a plethora of beads, buttons, pins, clasps, or other small, easily lost items, this mason jar organizer is the perfect way to keep them all together!
Here’s a great project for keeping all of your crafting supplies in one organized, contained space.
Check out this video to see some of the storage possibilities when you use Creative Option products!
Enter to Win Today’s Prize
Wouldn’t life be better if you could take your crafting with you everywhere you go? Well, Creative Options gives you that opportunity by making high-quality craft storage that gives you the freedom of portable crafting. This Tapered Tote, for example, has plenty of storage space, with pockets and elastic restraints to hold all your crafting supplies. Creative Options’ products combine functionality with style to give you the best crafting storage possible.
In order to win today’s 12 Days of Christmas in July Giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post below telling us:
How do you keep your crafting organized?
OFFICIAL RULES FOR DAILY CONTEST:
- There is a maximum of one entry per person. The entry will be based upon a comment left on this blog post. Duplicate comments will be deleted and are not tallied.
- Winner will be selected at random from the comments on this blog post.
- Winner will be announced here on the blog July 28, 2016 as well as contacted by the email address provided.
- You have until tomorrow, July 27, 2016 at 11:59p EST to leave your comment on the project above. Comments posted after that will not be counted.
- Contest open to anyone 18+ in US and/or Canada excluding Quebec.
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED.
Congrats to LaQuieta G.!
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I keep my crafting organized using totes and clear shoe boxes. Thanks for the chance to win this great tapered tote. Would love to win it! 🙂
I keep all my patterns in a three-ring binder, each pattern with directions in clear Sheet protectors.
I used tool boxes for the bulk of my crafting supplies, Plus I have a tote with wheels and a handle that helps keep all my material for sewing projects together with lots of pocket inside and out to hold my patterns threads zipper lace and ribbons , and if I am taking a project to work on away from home I have a briefcase on wheels with a handle for ease of transport. You see I have a stroke several years ago and had lose the use of one hand, so I really have to make my transportation of my project easier for me to take them with me.
I keep my crafting organized with lots of plastic bags and bins. Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
I keep much of my craft supplies in plastic bins in the family room; it’s an okay way to store them, not the greatest.
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I am not the best at keeping myself organized in my sewing room. I do have several scrapbook totes that stack nicely to hold fabric. I also use an over-the-door shoe hanger to hold supplies and more fabric.
I try to keep organized with containers and plastic bags while I’m away. It always ends up a total mess by the time I get home!
I also use a couple sets of drawers at home (and some containers) for my beads and supplies which keeps the husband happy 🙂
I keep all current project supplies in small containers (sandwich sized) so that I can easily bring them with me.
I keep my craft supplies organized using the zipper bags that sheets and comforters come in. I have a great friend who cleans houses for a living and she gets them for me. I put like colors in one, like yarn weights in another, etc. Also great for taking projects on a trip. Put all necessary items in bag (eg: yarn, hooks or needles necessary, pattern, etc) and you are good to go.
I use totes and bins on shelves for yarn hooks and bulky items and I do have a 3 ring binder for my patterns but I love that tapered tote! It would be perfect for taking my crochet projects with me.
I hate to admit that right now everything just sits out on my desk. I do need to come up with some kind of project bag, but I am just getting started and don’t quite know what is the best project storage yet.
I have my craft supplies stored in many plastic bins, but it still doesn’t feel organized. Just put away. One clever thing I do, though, is keep yarn stored in a hanging toy organizer that my daughter never put her toys in so I took to use in my craft room.
I keep everything sorted in clear plastic shoe boxes and fabric in mini baskets by color.
I keep all of my yarn in clear totes separated by yarn weight and fiber content. I keep my printed patterns in clear plastic sleeves in a 3 ring binder separated by project type. I keep my knitting needles in fabric needle cases separated by straight or interchangeable then by metal, wood, or bamboo needles.
I keep the rest of my crafting supplies in a rubber maid cabinet.
I use a sewing box and a hand made craft box that my daughter gave to me for Chritsmas . They are both stuffed full. I would really love to win this to help organize my small items.
This tote will help me organize in several ways. A cosmetics bag, a bag for stamps and supplies, a bag for cross stitching things, etc. I can choose any of these if I win.
How do I keep my crafting organized? Boxes, bags, totes, notebooks, piles…whatever is available. Sometimes I feel the need to make more order of it all and realize the house just is not big enough!!! The main problem is that you can craft with almost anything you come in contact with, thus rendering organization, order, or classification nearly impossible.
I have so many different crafts so to keep them in totes rather than boxes that don’t always have room for the tools and crafting items would be great. Also to be able to pick up your tote and go on holiday, or craft club, or just a crafting friends for the day without loads of boxes would be so much easier. Everything in one place so much tidy er and space saving
Organized? What’s that? LOL
But really, my crafting isn’t complete chaos. I keep my patterns sorted in paper folders. (The kind they sell for putting homework in) Works In Progress usually get stuffed in plastic grocery bags or old purses. This helps with transportation, because once I find the project I want to take with me, I can just pick up the bag and go.
Organization is the key to creativity. Love the tote.
I keep my crafting supplies is cardboard boxes and plastic bins.
Winning this tapered tote would allow me to get rid of at lest one cardboard box.
Plastic bins from the dollar store! You can get them in several sizes and colors. The best part? They’re $1.00 a piece!
I organize by material type & fabrics by color, in containers. Thanks for the giveaway!
Sterlite boxes with locking layers so you can stack them
All I have to put my crafty stuff in are book bags and garment bags.
I have a large room devoted only to crafting but it is terribly disorganized. that is why I need to win this container. Maybe it will inspire me to make some organizational decisions.
I use bags and plastic
containers to keep my
paper crafting products
in. I just got a loom, so
this bag would work
great for storing yarns
in.
Carla from Utah
Yarn goes in plastic bins, hanging shoe holders and clear plastic zip bags from sheets/comforters, etc. , separated into weights. Sewing supplies are in a multi-drawer unit from the company “Honey-Can-Do”. This tote would be perfect for the current projects I’m working on, presently kept in canvas totes next to the couch.
I don’t really. Wish I had more space to organize everything. Most of my craft supplies are stored in a couple of large storage trunks.
I try to stay organized!! I use the rolling carts with drawers, larger totes and clear plastic shoe boxes! But
none of it is able to be carried as the tote above is. And it is so cute! Thank you for offering it as a gift!
Each project is in a zip-top bag (Or grocery bag, if too large!) then like projects are in canvas totes. I have a small chest-of-drawers and a stack of plastic milk crates in a closet to hold supplies. Yarn is sorted by color in bags, in a laundry hamper. Other supplies hang from bags on the closet rod. Sometimes it gets to resemble the famed closet of Fibber McGee – then I know it’s time to share the wealth with fellow crafters on FreeCycle!
I use binders to organize my patterns and plastic storage boxes to store yarn and material.
This would be awesome! Right now I am using shoe boxes…which I have started to decorate lol!
I use clear shoe boxes for the smaller items & totes for the larger ones, labeling each of them saves time.
I use plastic totes for my fabric.
I have two book shelves I keep fabric on and plastic shoe boxes that I keep my scraps in. I also have two small chests that I have other crafty items in.
Dots and fuschia. Nice. I say, REPURPOSE an old hard-side train case.
I try to be organized but honestly I live in crafting chaos
I try, but organization doesn’t come easily!
I try to keep my craft supplies and endless balls of yarn, hooks, etc. confined in a cabinet and patterns in binders and in baskets, but I have a very tiny living space so it does trickle over most of the time. I spend a lot of time pinning ideas on organization so one day it will be done (lol!!)
I try to keep craft items in my desk and in pretty boxes when I can find them on clearance …
I just throw it all in a bin, so this would be helpful.
I still haven’t got my crafts organized.
I have a clear shoe organizer over my door with each pocket of the organizer holding different crafting items. I also have cardboard shoe boxes with clean egg cartons and small boxes within for a variety of beads and ribbons. I also having a filing cabinet with labeled alphabetical files of all my templates for card making.
I use see through totes and post its
I use large and small plastic bins. My husband will soon be building me built-in’s for under my windows and will build a craft station customized to how I would utilize it. He got me my sewing desk for Christmas one year and that has kept my sewing notions, etc organized.
Due to limited space and being a mom of 8. I organize my craft closet using milk crates
I try to be organized at home with plastic bins. But I babysit my grandson part of the week so I like to take some projects with me to work on during nap time. That tote would be perfect to carry my projects with me.
My crafting area is very small, so I have tubs, stacking units/drawers, pattern boxes & plastic dollar store shoe boxes. My fabric hangs in the closet in canvas shelves & old pill bottles hold my thread & bobbins. My motto – ‘a place for everything & everything in its place’.
I use everything you can imagine to store my craft supplies… clear totes, tool boxes, sewing boxes, etc. I have a couple of garden totes that I keep all my acrylic paints and brushes in. I use sweater organizers that you hang in the closet for my farn and various cloth totes for different crochet projects. I have shallow drawer sets for decoupage papers and card stock. Tin cans hold pens and pencils, I have a huge leather case that holds my coloring books, colored pencils and markers. I have another case for my sketch pads, watercolor and canvases. I honestly need a way to keep it all in one place. I’m into a little bit of everything and I have craft supplies everywhere. I need to win this!