Recycle plastic trays from the supermarket

Foam trays make perfect notion organizers.

Photo: Carol Ruzicka

Wash and dry empty plastic foam food trays you get from the supermarket, then stack them for use in your sewing room. These free, perfectly-sized trays are good project containers for storing notions when you begin a new project. The trays can hold needles, plins, threads, buttons, and they're portable for convenient hand sewing.

-Bonnie Bledsoe Fuchs, Chapel Hill, NC

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