Monday, June 24, 2013

Project Organization

My sewing mojo is back! I have several small hand projects that I have been working on. These projects are perfect to work on while I wait for my doctors in the waiting room. I found the perfect containers from the Japanese dollar store to keep these projects organized.

I am working on two different English piecing projects: small hexagons and diamonds. They are kept in different containers.

Here is a picture of the diamond English piecing project that I am working on with reproduction fabric. Warning: highly addicting!

I quickly realized that I didn't have a needle book to store my needles while I am on the go, so of course I had to make one today. I found the perfect tutorial. Although it looks easy, it did take me a good two hours. This is a good project to use up some scrap fabrics. My needle book measures 4.5" x 3.5" when it's opened up. It fits perfectly in my project boxes shown above.

 Front of the needle book. 

Back of the needle book. 

How do you store your needles? Are you a pincushion kind of person? I would love to hear how you manage these sharp objects on the go! 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! So many great projects.

Karen @ Pieces of Contentment said...

Your diamond piecing is looking good. I also like to keep my projects well organised. EPP is the perfect portable sewing project.

Alli said...

Your needle book is so cute! It totally looks worth the two hours -- hand sewing around the edge would take me a long time, too.

Oh, and I love Japanese tupperware-ish containers! I have a bunch of them floating around my various hand-sewing projects. :)