FRESH START
LAVENDER SACHETS
Keep your laundry smelling fresh with these easy-sew hearts filled with lavender. Whether you pop them in a drawer, hang them in your wardrobe or carry them in a pocket in your overnight bag, they’ll add a lovely scent to your favourite clothes.
BANNER
Brighten up your utility room with a colourful handmade sign. We’ve chosen ‘Laundry Day’ for ours, but you could personalise yours with any message – a reminder to check for red socks in your white wash might come in handy! This is a great scrap-buster, too.
IRONING BOARD CADDY
The pockets on this caddy are perfect for keeping your thread snips, measuring tape, fabric markers, scissors and pins to hand during those oh-so important pressing sessions. Save yourself trips to and from your sewing table with this handy quilted caddy.
MESH WASH BAGS
Basics like these needn’t be boring! Put your prettiest scraps to good use with some mesh wash bags for washing your delicates. The zip closures on these are secure to keep your delicate garments safe, and make them ideal to take away in a suitcase, too.
PEG BAG
This is a laundry essential that you’ll be proud to have on display! Store your pegs in style with a quilted bag complete with a drawstring top. Why not make more than one and use them to store your plastic bags and other utility room bits and bobs?
LAUNDRY BASKET
Upgrade your laundry basket with a fun, colourful fabric, quilted for added texture and with practical handles to make carrying this to and from the machine nice and easy. Personalise yours with a few pom-poms or some freestyle quilting stitches, too!
IRONING BOARD CADDY
YOU WILL NEED
• Fabric A: 30x90cm, front*
• Fabric B: 90x30cm, backing*
• Fabric C: 35x40cm, main pockets
• Fabric D: 24x12cm, contrast pockets
• Fabric E: 45x40cm, pocket lining
• Fabric F: WOF x 20cm binding
• Wadding: 90x30cm (we used Vlieseline Thermolam)
• Erasable fabric pen
• Matching thread
• Basic sewing kit
NOTES
• Use a 1cm seam allowance.
• Use a walking foot if you have one.
• We used a white cotton flannel for our backing fabric to help with grip.
FABRICS USED
• The fabrics used are from the Painterly Blooms collection from LoveCrafts (lovecrafts.com).
• Vlieseline Thermolam provided by vlieseline.com.
CUTTING OUT
Step one From fabric C cut:
Right Talltwo 12x18cm
