Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Organize craft room : Organize beads using plastic jars

I am very excited to share this lovely project with you. I have to admit that I am in love with making accessories. I have tons of beads to work with. For a long time  I had no where to store them. They were stored in bags they came with and they were looking like pieces of junks. Then I got this idea of this plastic jars.

Organizing craft room plastic jars


 I have tons of these plastic jars of peanuts that my husband likes to snack. I was thinking about using them to store dry food but I wasn't sure about the plastic material. It doesn't have any signs for the plastic quality. So I decided to store beads inside them.


I didn't like the way it looks. It is kind of blurred and unclear plastic, also the lid was miserable. What I did is to make some coroche covers for them

Organizing craft room coroche covers

They looked pretty  with these covers. I have chosen bright light colors threads and used double stitch. I started with making a circle for 9 cm diameter - which matches the bottom of the jar diameter- and continued normally with the double stitches. They look pretty when I covered them

Organizing craft room coroche covered


A useful tip is that I did this cover with a small window at the bottom of the cover to be able to see what's inside and I made it closer to the bottom in order to see what's inside no matter how much the amount is. To make the window, let's say it is 4 stitches wide. just don't complete the last four stitches in your line and keep making lines leaving the last four stitches. when you find the suitable height just close the line with four chains and complete your lines normally.

Organizing craft room coroche cover window

And I had fun

Organizing craft room plastic jars

I am waiting for your responses and comments. If you have any organizing project you like to share I will be glad to share it in my blog. See you next post

6 comments:

  1. A very great idea..i'm also intersted in accessories and i find it very helpful and so cute..i like the idea

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    1. Thanks a lot. You are welcome any time. I am happy my post was helpful for you as well as I hope all my posts are. Enjoy the rest of my blog. Thank you

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  2. What a great idea to leave a small window in your crocheted cover so you can see the contents! Did you come up with the crochet pattern yourself?

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    1. Yes, I don't have much experience in crochet but I came up with how to make a circle then I completed with double stitch normally. they took much work and time but it worth. thank you Susan for you comments I love your crochet projects so much.

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  3. Great idea ! Great result !
    Anna

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    1. And great readers. Thank you Anna so much. Enjoy tha rest of the blog and welcome any time

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