Quilting Tool Storage Options

The way we store our tools will help us to not only take good care of them, but also make them easily accessible. A place for everything and everything in it’s place. So, let’s explore some tool storage options.

Tool Storage

There are many options for quilting tool storage like sewing boxes, specialty-sewing cabinets that hold tools as well as your machine, and sewing armoires, but some times you need more options. Consider the following:

Magnetic Bar

You may have seen magnetic bars advertised for kitchen use to organize knives and other tools. These can also be great used in the sewing room for scissors, seam rippers, bodkins, hemostats, and other metal tools.

Baskets

Tall baskets can be a pretty alternative to hold your often used tools on your cutting table or beside your machine. They also are quite useful to place under the lid of your machine while it is open to drop your fabric scraps into for later use.

Rolling Tool Box

These boxes can be found in hardware stores as well as online and many times are used for woodworkers or mechanics. They generally have shallow drawers that are perfect for quilting tools like rulers, templates, thread, scissors, etc. Since they have wheels, they can be rolled under your cutting table when not in use and then pulled out and moved to your workspace while you are stitching. Some people also make a removable top for them out of plywood, batting, and ironing board fabric and use this as an extra large pressing space.

Command Hooks

Where would we be without Command Hooks? They are great for hanging rulers and other tools on your walls, table edges, etc. They also can help you control the flow of cords behind your quilting table so that they don’t accidentally get cut with your rotary cutter.

Plastic Zip-Top Baggies

These great little inventions make keeping our patterns and applique pieces together so much easier. Since they come in sizes from “Snack” to XXL, you can carry tiny applique pieces all the way up to finished quilts in these bags and keep them clean and dry and organized.

Suitcase With Wheels

When something small just won’t do, a suitcase with wheels can be very helpful. They are made to keep your clothes clean and dry when travelling, so why not use them for storing large quilting projects and transporting them to retreats, classes, etc.?

Peg Board

Peg Board can be a great organizational tool so that you can see what tools you have and always have them at the ready. Some people even use a marker to draw around their tools so that they will know what is missing if a tool has not been replaced as it should.

Silverware Caddy

A silverware caddy can be the perfect holder for tools on your cutting table like short rulers, rotary cutters, pencils, pincushions, scissors, etc. and since almost all of them have handles, they are easy to use to move everything over to your pressing and stitching areas also.