 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. The last time we talked about sewing room organization we worked on this section of my sewing room, Sunny, not included, and today I want to talk about another area of my sewing room equally as important as storing notions and that is how I store my sewing patterns. Here is a little hallway that leads to a bathroom behind my dress form and in that hallway was some built-in shelving and so that is where I decided to store my sewing patterns. They are all in these boxes here. These are half file boxes made by in place and I got them at Staples They're cardboard they come flat like blankers boxes do and then you fold them up to make a box yourself and They're perfect for storing patterns because the patterns all fit in there standing up back to back Which is really cool. I Love the boxes. They are perfect, but there's like little to no Personality on the boxes whatsoever So I decided I wanted to make some cute little tags that would represent What kind of patterns are in the corresponding box? I organize my patterns by garment type So I have separates I have tops I have bottoms I Have a category called other which has like accessories like swimsuits and pajamas and stuff like that I have jackets and outerwear and then I have dresses So in order to make the gift tags, I went to my trusty Cricket maker which also gets stored down here So you can get a view of all of the shelves But in order to make these I knew I wanted them to look kind of like gift tags I knew I wanted them to have some kind of hole in the middle so that I could tie some Ribbon through them and I just thought the cricket maker would be perfect for that because who likes cutting out circles with scissors I know I don't and then I just used some metallic iron on and some regular black iron on in Order to create the icon and the text that would signify What the label represented so the cricket maker was perfect just as I figured I have created a Design that any of you can use and download. So let me show you how I Use the design space and cricket maker to make these adorable pattern box tags Okay, when you click the link in the description box below you will come to a Canvas in design space that looks just like this and this looks a lot like our Label tags look so let me show you what we're looking at here. We have the Fabric for the one side that is going to have the icons on it. So for me that was the pink gingham Then we have our icons which were in the gold metallic Then we have the back quote-unquote of the tags This was that's like white or cream twill and then we have the text that goes on each of those and then the yellow Tags are slightly smaller than the rest of them and this is our interfacing Okay, and once you're ready to cut out your materials, then you're going to click the make it button and This is going to separate everything by material So this black mat here is going to have all of your little icons you will need to mirror those and Then these peach ones here are going to be fabric number one If you have a larger mat a 12 by 24 you can certainly combine these all into one all into one mat and Do one cut that way? This is the text that you're going to need again. You'll need to mirror that and Then we have our interfacing and then finally our second fabric I am going to be doing a companion blog that's going to outline all of this I don't feel like you need to write it all down or you know memorize any of this I'm going to have step-by-step and a companion blog for you I just kind of want to go through it on video so you can kind of get an idea of what we're looking at here From there you're going to continue. So it's got my maker machine recognized We are working on mat number one indicated here We need to set our material to iron on since that's what we're doing and make sure that the fine point blade is In the machine, which it wasn't that was my rotary blade So you just pop it in I can do it one-handed super simple And then you load your mat like so There's a little arrow flushing indicating loading it Do not load properly We're gonna try again and Then the cricket logo blinks and you just click that and it goes to town There we go. Not sure if y'all can see There we go the cuts that were all made in there perfect Then we go back to our machine here and you can see that it immediately prompts you to move on to number two so Number two is going to be a canvas so I need to Edit the material and I want to go to browse all materials and then I want to search for canvas and It's got canvas here So you just select that and click done and Then we need to switch our rotary blade or switch from our fine point blade To our rotary blade and is literally this simple. You just pop out one Pop in the other Can even do it with one hand and as you guys know that's typically a struggle for me on some tasks okay, so I've got my Canvas fabric here super cute so again, I need to load it up and Click the flashing little button Perfect Okay, what the visual tutorial because you're literally just going to repeat what you've already done in order to cut out the text and then the second set of Fabric and your interfacing following the exact same steps that we just went over All right, so I have everything cut and weeded I am in my kitchen now so that I can use the easy press to adhere the iron on to the white solid portion of the labels and then I have all of my little Clothing images stacked and ready to go on top of the gingham fabric So I am going to use the reference chart for cotton canvas For the light metallic Iron-on type and so I've set my machine to 270 for 40 seconds and I'm going to Apply all of the iron on vinyl I've also cut out interfacing and I'm going to apply that to the back sides of this as well So I will be back after all of that is done Okay back in the sewing room now, and I have paired up the image with the text So dresses with dresses Pants with bottoms the hat goes with other This is separates. This is tops and this is jackets So you have a couple of options here depending on how finished or It's whatever you want these to look in terms of Combining the front and the back together. So your options or the options that I can think of include Going to your regular sewing machine and stitching a quarter of an inch around this edge here and then using pinking shears to pink the edges so that they are that little Zigzag and prevent some of the fraying You can go to your serger and you can serge around all of these edges Or you can apply bias tape to all of the edges You might have some trouble around the corners depending on how good you are with bias tape But that is certainly an option and will completely enclose your raw edges I am going to search all of mine Using white thread and then for the center circle here I'm going to go to my regular machine and set it to zigzag stitch and just like you would machine applique Zigzag all the way around this circle. It's not going to look Even and precise and that's okay like I'm kind of okay with this looking a little bit crafty and a little bit scrappy you could also Seal up the raw edges here with some fray check That's about all I can think of because you can't get pinking shears in here and you can't get a serger in here So yeah with that and remember you're going to have your ribbon going through there, too So a lot of that stitching is going to be hidden But let me sew these together wrong sides together and I'll show you the finished product Okay, they are all completely sewn together. You can see my surge all along the edges and my charming Zigzag stitch around the hole just to make sure that all my surging stitches at the ends where I just cut them off Stayed and didn't start to unravel. I did apply some liquid stitch to all of the five corners One two three four. Oh, sorry six six corners I just put some on my finger and then use my finger to just smush it on there and Press the threads down so that it kind of gave it a neater finish And then I wouldn't have to worry about the surging stitches unraveling Okay, and here it is attached to my box all I did was punch a hole through the lid And then I just tied off a knot in the back um for your Tie I mean again, you have a lot of freedom here um, you can use bias tape Coating you can use ribbon. You could even use fabric strips. Um, I'm using twill tape Because it's what I had on hand and it's nice and sturdy and the color um coordinated really well, so I'm just tying off um about a I guess a four or five inch piece and then Just attaching it to my box and it's going to hang like that so The the thought behind putting the words on the back was in case it gets flipped over You would still know what it was. I think i'm going to place them all with the um metallic icon on the outside Instead of alternating some I think i'm just going to use this and maybe one day i'll change my mind and Put these on the outside. I don't know. It's really up to you how you want to display either side or both sides of your um tag Obviously the longer that this is the more likely it will Twist and turn around so if that's a feature that you like Then make your ribbon a little bit longer. All right, and there you have it. Those are my diy pattern box tags or labels made with my Cricut maker I really love them. I think it adds a lot of personality and a lot of color to this section of my sewing room and It makes me smile. I love the gingham. I love the gold And they're just really sweet and personal which I love So hopefully you will get around to making these for yourself Um, if you have any questions for me about how to make them Please leave them in the comments below and I will be sure to get back to you But until I hear from you, I'll see you again soon. Bye