Welcome to the Hexi-Caddy
It’s the time of the month when my latest PDF pattern is released for you to purchase and download!
This one is for all of you out there who love to look organised, and to show off all of your nice things, but who also have what might almost be described as clutter, except it is too useful to get rid of. That’s me in a nutshell!
I totally admire people who have beautiful spaces, especially sewing spaces, but as hard as I try, I still end up with a basket full of random items! My organised self is horrified by the mess, but my sensible self knows that I wouldn’t have those funny little things if they weren’t genuinely useful.. I have read Marie Kondo’s book twice, and I know that if something brings you joy, it is worth keeping.
So this caddy is designed to show off nice things, but also to hide useful but less pretty things. It is based on a drawstring bag in the centre, which can be closed to hide the contents, but on the outside are pockets which pop forwards so you can easily get at the contents. Here are the three that I have made:
You can see that two of them are helping to organise my sewing space. The one with the red base now lives next to my sewing machine, and holds things like my stitch ripper and hump jumper, with my turning cords and ribbons inside. The green one lives on my cutting desk, and holds my scissors, marking pens, and measuring tools on the outside, with giant reels of thread inside as they don’t fit on my shelves! Note that it matches my Flip-it Needle Case. The last one is so pretty, with the unicorn on the pockets, and is going to go on my dressing table. My favourite fluffy make-up brushes are in the pockets, with the dusty pots of make-up inside.
Finally, here is a view of how the design works. I love to play with shapes, and realised that using a hexagon-shaped base with a star inside would create the open pockets without having to resort to pleats or gussets. So the body of the caddy is made up of straightforward rectangles of fabric, and the magic happens when it is attached to the base. I used my favourite self-binding technique too, to cut down on bulk when you sew the sides and base together.
