Craft Projects for Organizing

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Looking for craft projects for organizing?

Wouldn't it be great if you could come up with crafty solutions to your crafty organizing dilemmas? Here are some ideas for how you can use things from your craft room (or closet, or corner) to organize your crafts.

Evaluate Your Needs

The first step for any kind of organizing project, whether you're buying solutions or making them yourself, is to determine what you need. The easiest way to do that is to take stock of the supplies you have. Then you can determine the craft projects for organizing that will work best for you.

Which crafts do you do the most often? You'll want those supplies to be the most accessible. And of course you'll need more room for storage of things you have more of. Consider also what might be the best way to store things: boxes for yarn and fabrics to keep them out of the light, a jar for buttons, and so on.

Get Creative

Coming up with craft projects for organizing can be relatively easy. Sometimes it's just a matter of repurposing things you've already got in the house. Shoeboxes, for instance, are not great for storing archival materials, but they've fine for thinks like knitting needles, crochet hooks, art supplies or embroidery thread. Decoupage the boxes to make them a little prettier, and embellish with a symbol of what is inside (stamp the box that's full of rubber stamps with rubber stamps, for instance).

Jars are another great way to store craft items when you want to be able to see what you have. Everyone's grandmother had a button jar, but you can also have a jar for crochet hooks and knitting needles, pieces of ribbon, all those little doo-dads that you don't know what you'll need them for but you're sure you'll need them someday, that sort of thing.

Decorate your jars by painting, gluing on a wide ribbon, decoupaging tissue paper in a stained-glass manner, or any other way you want. If you end up with lots of jars of different things, you can bundle all of these together in a box or basket (or even stand up toilet-tissue rolls in the box and use them as dividers—decorated, of course).

If you like to sew, perhaps you could make yourself some storage bags based on your needs. A simple tote bag can be a great place to store fabrics, pillow forms, yarn and other soft things you'd like easy access to but also need to protect from sunlight, cats, or anything else.

Also try raiding the kitchen for empty boxes, chip tubes, empty egg containers, or anything else you could clean and store craft supplies in. There are all sorts of organizing supplies in your house; you just don't know it!