This week we have a great DIY tutorial to keep all those pesky cables or stationary organized! This DIY tutorial also comes with a free pattern to make the cable organizer. If you are looking for some more inspiration to keep your home organized check out our Pinterest boards and other patterns on Makerist.
This project is extra special as we designed the fabric ourselves with the fabric markers and pens and also added in our own text and motifs.
Fabric Markers And Pens
In this tutorial we used markers from Edding, however, you can use any fabric markers you like! The e-4500 textile marker and the e-4600 textile pen are absolute dreams to work with! The bright colors can be easily applied to fabrics.
Prepare Your Project
What you need for your project:
– A fabric made of cotton for the outside, approx. 50 x 25 cm (for us, this is the fabric with the golden grid pattern)
– A single-coloured inner fabric for painting, approx. 40 x 25 cm
– Iron-On Fleece, approx. 40 x 25 cm
– Fusible Web, about 40 x 25 cm
– A zipper, about 20 cm long
– Elastic rubber band in two widths (eg 1 cm and 4 cm wide) and about 30 cm in length
– A small piece of Bbias tape, approx. 20 cm long (for the loop at the top left)
– Another piece of bias tape to tie, approx. 90 cm long in total
– A sewing machine andSewing thread
– iron and ironing board
– A pair of scissors and, ideally, a cutting mat and rotary cutter
– Cloth clamps for fixing
– Textile markers
– Our free pattern for the cable organizer, a printer and printer paper
Here we go! First, print out our free pattern for the cable organizer and glue the three parts together. Then you can use the pattern to cut the fabrics with the help of a rotary cutter and cutting mat.
As indicated on the pattern, you need 1 x the outer fabric from the large pattern (A + B), 1 x the inner fabric and 1 x a piece of each of the two fleeces. You will also need 1 x the outer fabric from the small pattern piece (C). The seam allowance of approx. 1 cm is already included everywhere.
Fabric design with the fabric markers and pens
Grab your cut inner fabric and iron it briefly. Then you can use the fabric markers and pens to design your fabric however you want. We decided on a summer melon motif. We applied the colours one by one and allowed a few minutes to dry in between so that nothing would smudge when we continued painting. The colours are wonderfully opaque and bright, exactly to our taste!
To make sure that the colour does not lose its intensity during washing, you can now fix it briefly by ironing, this allows you to wash the fabric at up to 60 °!
After you have prepared the material we move onto the next step!
Sew your own cable organizer: Instructions
Before you can start with the sewing machine, you will need to iron again. To do this, shorten your two fleece inlays by about half a centimetre on each edge (then your project is easier to turn over later if the seams are not too stiff) and then iron them onto the back of your fabrics according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The thin fleece comes behind your patterned inner fabric, the fluffy fleece behind your checked outer fabric.
Now you have prepared a total of three pieces of fabric:
You will need: your pink inner fabric with a self-drawn melon pattern and thin fleece insert, your checkered outer fabric with a fluffy fleece insert and another piece of checked fabric from the outer fabric, which is used for the bag on the inside.
Now we can finally sew our own cable organizer! The first step on the sewing machine will now be to prepare the zippered pocket on the inside. Get your patterned inner fabric, the small plaid piece and the zipper ready.
Place the top side of the zipper flush with the edge of the top of your plaid fabric. Use the zipper foot from your sewing machine and sew on the zipper. Be careful not to let the zipper slip off the zipper.
Then fold your zipper over so that the right side (with the zipper) is facing up. Quilt the edge of the fabric close to the teeth of the zipper to hold everything in place and have a clean edge.
Now clip the small checked piece of fabric with the sewn zipper onto your melon-painted inner fabric and sew the zipper on the other edge onto the pink fabric. This is how you lay the foundations for the later bag. Then it goes to the rubber bands:
Place the elastic bands on your inner fabric and fix them if necessary. Then fold it over on the right edge and sew it evenly onto the inner fabric at regular intervals, as shown in the picture, so that your cables and utensils can later be fixed in place.
So that you can tie the utensil later, the cords have to be finished. Cut two pieces out of the bias tape (each approx. 25 cm and 60 cm long), fold them inwards, fix them by ironing and then sew them together as in the photo above.
Fix the two sewn together bias tapes on the right edge. Then take a small piece of bias tape with a length of approx. 20 cm and pin it in the upper left corner. You can hang the utensil on it later, or attach a key ring to it.
Sew the attached pieces of bias tape close to the edge of the fabric. This is how you attach them so that they won’t slip when you sew the layers of fabric together in the next step.
Now lay the outer fabric with the right side (with the outside) on the right side (the printed, patterned side) of the inner fabric as shown in the photo above. Fix the layers all around with fabric clips so that all layers are flush with one another.
Sew around once with a seam allowance of approx. 1 cm so that all layers of fabric are connected to one another. Leave a turning opening at least a hand’s width on one of the long edges, so you can turn the utensil over in the next step.
Put the cable organizer through the opening from the inside out. If you have trouble turning the little corners inside out properly, you can use a pen or needle to help. Just be careful not to damage the seams.
Grab your iron again and iron the edges properly.
Now you can sew around the edges one time around thus closing the reversible opening and at the same time topstitch everything properly.
Tadaaaaa, your super chic cable organizer is now sewn! Now only one more thing is missing:
Take a fabric marker and write a great caption on your cable organizer. Don’t forget to iron the fabric again briefly afterwards so that you set the colour for the next wash.
Tadaaa! Now you can start organizing your stationary and cables!
And voila you have now finished the Bobble Pillow!
We hope you enjoyed making this cable and stationery organizer with us today! Don’t forget to share your finished version with us on Instagram using the hashtag #makeristcom. If you are interested in other projects using leftover fabrics head over to Makerist, check out our Pinterest boards for more DIY inspiration!
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