SewUseful Hanging Organizer

Step 2 Creae the background

This step explains how to create the fabric background o which all the other parts of our hanging organizer are attached. For the demonstration item this made from dark blue cotton material.

Take the iron-on interfacing and cut a piece the chosen size of your organizer.


Now take the fabric that you will use for the background and cut a piece 5cm (2 inches) bigger than the piece of interfacing.

Following the instructions for the iron-on interfacing iron the interfacing to one side of the fabric leaving an even amount of fabric spare around the outside. The interface side will be the 'wrong' side of the hanging organizer. The 'wrong' side will not look particularly pretty but we won't see it so it doesn't matter.

At the corners trim the spare fabric away diagonally - see the first picture.

Now fold this spare fabric over the edge of the interface and using the iron-on hem tape iron the spare fabric to the 'wrong' side of the organizer. I found that my hem tape was too wide for this purpose so cut it along its length to fit.

Do this folding and ironing around the whole of the background.. From the right side there should be no raw edges visible. See the pictures in this step for more detail.

Now to fix the eyelets that will enable us to hang our organizer .

Using a measure and chalk mark the desired positions of the eyelets. For our item the positions were dictated by the piece of furniture that the organizer was being made for.

Following the instructions given with the eyelets punch holes and secure the eyelets in the chosen position.