Cutest Storage Ever!

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I'm all about the storage in my sewing room/office/basement. In all honesty my sewing/craft room is the basement. I took it over the vast majority of our family room when I started testing patterns in earnest a few years ago. Which meant when I began working for Rebecca Page Patterns last year I completed the take over. I have an amazing desk and all the Ikea Kallax storage I could ask for. And yet sometimes I just need smaller CUTE storage for clips or scissors etc. 

I enjoy pinterest...A LOT.  I see all kinds of cute ideas for crafting and sewing spaces and dream of when my spaces will be cute. Lately I've been seeing smallish cloth storage type bins that I liked and yet they weren't exactly what I wanted.  Because I'm a "I can make that, and make it the way I want it." type of a gal, I decided to draft my own pattern. I was spurred into action by the Sewing Summit  and started drafting, and then recording a complete sewing tutorial on how to sew it!

If you don't know what the Sewing Summit is, you are in for a treat! It's a week of FREE..that's right FREE classes from a lot of AMAZING speakers sharing how to make different fabric crafts. You can sign up for FREE and if you want to have access to the classes after they expire, you can get the all access pass. How fantastic is that?!?!?!

So, needless to say I was SO EXCITED to work on the Storage Cell for the Sewing Summit!

My first version involved pleats and I wasn't terribly thrilled with the whole thing. So my 16 year-old son pulled up AutoCAD and we messed with angles etc. until I liked how the 3D version looked.

And so I present the Storage Cell! There is a reason behind the name...except now none of us can remember why we called it the Storage Cell. We crack me up! I should have written down the reason. 

It can be made in two sizes. The large size is big enough to hold scissors, thread and more. While the smaller size is perfect for clips and small boxes of pins.  

The small size is perfect to sit under my sewing machine while I sew so I can drop my clips in it as I pull them off. 

NOTE - I do not show how to put the handle on this way in the tutorial, I only show how to put the handle on like it is in the large size.

The large size is a great size to hold so much! I have it hanging on my desk next to my sewing machine to hold thread that I use on a regular basis. It can however hold so much more!

I show how to stitch the handle on and apply a Kam snap so the handle can be undone and re-snapped to allow you to hang it wherever you want it to.

The very best part about the Storage Cell is that you can get it for FREE

Download the Storage Cell Pattern

NOTE - 1/2 inch Double Fold Bias Binding is needed for the Storage Cell 

If you would like to know how to make Bias Binding, Rebecca Page Patterns has a great tutorial on how to make it.

The seam allowance unless otherwise indicated is 1/2 inch.

To assemble the Storage Cell, open the pattern in Adobe  Acrobat and choose the size you want to make in the layers section, either small or large. Then print the pattern at actual size.
Cut out all pieces. Trim the Flex Foam Fusible Interfacing by 1/2 inch on each side.
Lay the Foam Interfacing on the Main Fabric, pin. Quilt the Foam Interfacing to the Main Fabric. Align the short edges, pin and stitch with a 1/2 inch seam allowance.
Repeat with the Main Lining piece.

Lay the Foam Interfacing on the Base Main Fabric, pin. Quilt the Foam Interfacing to the Base Main Fabric. Align the short edges, pin and stitch with a 1/2 inch seam allowance.
Repeat with the Base  Lining piece.

Find the quarter points of both the Base Main Fabric and the Main Fabric. Match the quarter points and pin together. Continue pinning all the way around. Stitch with a 1/2 inch seam allowance. Trim the seam allowance with pinking shears, or clip the curves.

Repeat with the Base Lining and the Main Lining.

Turn the Storage Cell Lining wrong side out, insert into the Outer Storage Cell. Line up the back seam and the rest of the Storage Cell.

Carefully pin along the back seam. Stitch along the back seam.
Press the Storage Cell following the manufacturer's directions to fuse the Flex Foam Fusible Interfacing.

Press the Storage Cell Lining into the Outer Storage Cell, pin along the top edge. Place the double fold bias binding raw edge along the top edge of the Storage Cell, pin. Leave approximately 2 inches extra binding where you begin pinning the binding. Continue pinning all the way around until reaching where you began pinning the binding. Push the Storage Cell in away from the binding and pinch the binding together. Place a pin where you pinch. Stitch straight down where you placed the pin. Trim the extra bias binding Move the Storage Cell back into place and pin the bias binding. Stitch the bias binding along the folded edge of the binding closest to the raw edge. Turn the Storage Cell over, press the bias binding up.
Fold the bias binding to the Lining, making sure to cover the stitches. Pin. Stitch in place. Press.

Fold the handle like you would if you were making double fold bias tape. Fold the long edges into the center, press, fold in half again, press. Open up the last fold and fold the opposite direction so it is folded inside out. Stitch the short ends at 1/4 inch seam allowance. Clip the corners, or clip the whole seam allowance with pinking shears.
Cut 2 small pieces of foam to put into each side of the handle. Place the foam into each side, press.
NOTE - if you are applying KAM snaps, make sure to leave approximately an inch of space with no foam at one of the short edges.
Stitch along the open edge of the handle.

With Tailor's Chalk or Disappearing Ink, draw a square with an x in it and the short end with foam in it. Place this end at the top outer back seam of the Storage Cell. Pin, then stitch in place.

Apply a KAM snap to the short edge of the handle. Then apply the other half of the KAM snap to the desired placement on the Storage Cell. Snap in place.

You're done with your Storage Cell!

Fabric for the Large Storage Cell is DiCarpo Designs I'm not an affiliate. Just a HUGE fan of their beautiful fabric!

I hope you enjoy making the Storage Cell as much as I enjoyed designing it. Don't forget to sign up for the Sewing Summit so you can watch not just my tutorial but all of the others as well!

See you soon!

Chaney