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| Tool storage |
I won’t claim to be completely organized or compulsively neat, but I do have part of my little sewing room that works very well for me and that I thought might be interesting for someone else. The doorway into this room opens on an angle, which means that the door itself doesn’t open flat against a wall. There’s a tiny bit of wall space behind the door that isn’t good for very much, but it works quite well as a base for a piece of pegboard on which to store various tools. The pegboard keeps things very handy and yet out of the way. 🙂
As you can see, I have several square rulers at the top left, next to an array of shears and specialty scissors. The item in the green/black bag next to the scissors is a set of compass points that fit onto a yardstick or narrow ruler to draft large curves and circles. There is also a Kwik Klip for pin basting, as well as some old embroidery hoops and a tape measure. Near those are my spools of Aurifil thread (my other threads are stored in boxes in the closet), a row of filled bobbins, and a collection of different rotary cutters (including my favorite Martellis).
Dangling at the very bottom of the pegboard are some spare cutting mats and some odd-sized rulers, though my most-often-used rulers are in a dedicated rack on another wall.
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| Smaller set of drawers |
That leaves only the two boxes to explain, and I really like those! The smaller blue one was a gift over 35 years ago from my late father, and I’ve used it ever since for little things that might otherwise be lost in a jumble somewhere. As you can see, Schmetz machine needles fit perfectly inside one drawer, but other drawers hold Pigma pens, bias tape makers, a stencil knife, Command clips, and so on.
Recently, however, I was delighted to find a similar box with drawers of slightly different sizes at a home improvement store. Yay! This meant I could “uncrowd” the drawers in the blue box and even add more little notions to the new organizing drawers.
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| Larger drawers |
While the blue box is metal, the new box (grey) is plastic. It probably won’t last as long, but it’s not as heavy, so that’s a trade-off. The drawers in this one are two different sizes, giving me more options for things that will fit. For one thing, the needles from Superior and KlassĂ© fit into these drawers, where those boxes were slightly too tall and wide for the other set.
I also have all of the instructions for my machine feet in a drawer, and stray buttons, various assorted kinds (lots of kinds!) of sewing pins, rotary cutter blades, and empty bobbins distributed in others.
I suspect I could fill up a pegboard twice the size of mine, as well as at least one more set of drawers, if I only had a place to hang them! LOL!
