AFTER!
BEFORE . . .
When I ran across a paper towel holder I no longer use, I immediately thought of the rolls of ribbon I recently bought at Michaels (three for a dollar!) to make some more fabric memo boards. They’re a perfect fit! Here are a few other craft and sewing room ideas:
- For pretty tape dispensers, click here.
- For a pattern weight jar, storage bin labels, and needle book, click here.
- For no-tangle bobbins, click here.
- For easy-access thread storage, click here.
- For neat and pretty embroidery floss storage, click here.
- For a pretty ironing board, click here.
- For a way to store and display your fabric flowers, click here and here.
- For a portable way to store your colored pencils (or knitting needles or crochet hooks), click here and here. Happy weekend! ♥
UPDATE: Emily at Two Purple Couches just sent me a tip that this and lots of other great storage tips are included in the September HGTV magazine! I did a little sleuthing and found a link here. Enjoy!
PILLOWS A-LA-MODE 
This is a fabulous idea! I have ribbons absolutely all of the place in my hall closet and the mess stresses me out. I need to do this!!!
All OVER the place, I mean.
It sounds like you might need a few of these to corral all of yours! 🙂 But I think you can get them at the dollar store . . . and it would be fun to paint them to match your craft room, too! 🙂
What a great idea!!! I love clever new uses for old things!
Me, too! And so many of our crafting supplies are so pretty . . . it’s nice to have them out as part of the decor instead of stuffed away in a bag! 🙂
I hear so much about Michael’s on various blogs. What lovely ribbon and what a brilliant way to display it. You are a craft genius!
I’m lucky to have a Michaels just two miles away! 🙂 They don’t sell fabric, but they do have everything else crafty. What types of craft stores do you have where you live?
Unfortunately nothing here is that easy to reach. We have a big hobbycraft a few miles away, but at the moment I need to persuade Mr M to drive me there. Internet shopping is my friend!
I do that, too, especially when life gets super-busy! 🙂
I just found the same tip in the Sept issue of HGTV magazine & thought it was a great idea! Great minds must think alike 😉
I located the HGTV article online! I’ve updated my post with this link and a link to your blog as well. Thanks SO much for the tip, Emily! 🙂
You’re welcome! Keep the great tips coming 🙂
awesome! I clicked on each and everyone of your craft room tips! I am fortunate enough myself to have my own craft room and love the organizing methods you use! My ribbons are on a wrought iron paper towel dispenser that I have mounted to the wall. I also use another wall mounted one to hang my tissue paper for gift wrapping.
What a great idea! Wrought iron is SO pretty. I’m trying to remember if you’ve blogged about your craft room with photos . . . if so, could you send me the link? If not, would you? 🙂
no…i haven’t and i probably should. on another note, I received from my sister-in-law some vintage “hankies” that were worn, but had some great hand tatting on them. I turned them in to purse size kleenex holders (keeping with the hankie theme)….have you done this? didn’t want to blog it if it had been done before….mine was put together with a lick and a promise. 🙂
Oh, please do blog about both your craft room AND your hankies! I have a whole bag of them from my grandmother and I just took them out the other day trying to get some inspiration. I’d love to see your ideas and they would inspire bunches of us! 🙂
ok, but only if you promise to tweak the idea with your professional sewing skills….and then reblog.
great idea, I have a few hanging around 🙂
Knowing you, you could MAKE some out of odds and ends, too! 🙂
Clever, clever, clever; clever, clever!!! I am so going to do this!
Beth
Yay! 🙂
ooh I really like this idea! of course, I like all your ideas 😉 I could definitely use this in my craft room!
Thank you, Jennie! Sometimes the simplest things are the coolest! 🙂
couldn’t agree more!
Great idea for those every growing piles of ribbon!
I know!!! It’s so hard to resist buying all those pretty colors and prints, isn’t it??? 🙂
Three for a dollar!!!! you couldn’t even get three for £1 over here – I am outraged! Hehe. a great idea though – which I;m sure you will need sticking up on such a bargain 😀 xXx
I know! I wasn’t even shopping for ribbon that day, but I couldn’t pass it up! 🙂
Love the ribbon idea, but I think I will need LOTS of them. Then figure out a place to put them. And if you don’t have enough ribbon, I found a great website: http://www.giftsintl-us.com/grosgrainribbon.php. This opens up to grosgrain, (50 yards for $1.10 … no kidding … ) I will be posting this and some other great internet finds on my own site http://www.lizjfoxdesign.com. … and I don’t work for any of them.
Thank you for the great tip, Liz! I look forward to reading more on your blog post! 🙂
That’s such a good idea! Simple but effective.
Thank you! I’m loving having them out . . . both because it’s handy and because they’re so pretty! 🙂
What a great idea! Now if only I had twenty of these holders, there’d be my problem solved. Maybe a curtain rod….
Better than a curtain rod is a wooden dowel for $1.59 at the hardware store and two bathroom hooks to hold it up.
Wonderful idea!!! Thank you! 🙂
Hey, that’s actually a really great idea! 🙂 Or a suspension curtain rod (or several) wedged between a wall and bookcase . . . I’ll bet you can come up with something marvelous! 🙂
Well, darn, why I have been stuffing rolls of ribbon into a box in the cupboard? I just followed your blog to get more good ideas!
Thank you! It’s always good to meet a new blogging friend! 🙂
Love this! I need to do a separate one for Christmas ribbon. That would be soooo much easier than my jumbled box of tangled mess! Thank you!
~Erin
Neaten Your Nest
You’re very welcome! And I love it that it makes the pretty ribbon part of the decor! We can’t have too much *pretty* around! 🙂
This is an awesome idea! I love it. I have boxes in the garage filled with ribbon that would be so much easier to use if on a roll.
Yay! Have fun with it! 🙂
Love the idea of using a paper towel holder for ribbon! I also have seen them used to hold various cookie cutters. So many great uses for one item! 🙂
Wow, that’s a great idea! I love cookie cutters and have lots of them. 🙂
Oh my goodness, this is great! Officially goes onto my “why didn’t I think of that?” list. Can’t wait to scroll through the rest of the ideas. 🙂
Thank you! It’s so nice of you to visit! Feel free to try anything you see! 🙂
Great idea! Thanks!
You’re very welcome! I tried it out while making my “colorful fabric memo board” and it worked great! 🙂
I love this idea. I am starting to get my crafts into some kind of order. Thanks for the tip
You’re very welcome! I’m loving mine! 🙂
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Such great ideas! I love how organised your crafting space is. Mine is all over the place, with stuff all over the place, too. Sometimes I just don’t do things because I first have to search for everything I’m going to need. You inspired me to get organised, it will definitely make all these little projects much more pleasurable! And thanks for liking my blog, I consider it a compliment.
You’re very welcome . . . and good luck with organizing! It’s on ongoing project, that’s for sure! And I do love your blog . . . you have a new follower! 🙂