Crafty Cat: Drawer Organizer Box

Get a head start on your spring-cleaning by decluttering and organizing your drawers

By Cat Morley
Published: March 12th, 2009 | 1:20pm

You will need:
o Cardboard Box
o Fabric for covering
o Fabric for lining
o Box Cutter
o Scissors
o Hot Glue Gun

1. Find a cardboard box that's the right size to fit in your drawer and that will hold all of your things nicely.
2. Place the box inside the drawer and roughly cut down to size, using a box cutter. Remove from the drawer and neaten up the edges.
3. Cut a large square of lining fabric and place in the middle of the box, so that it folds neatly over the edges and covers the inside of the box - don't worry about how it looks on the outside just yet. Use a glue gun to stick the fabric in place.
4. Cut a long rectangular strip of fabric for the outside of the box (it's best to measure around the box to get the dimensions beforehand) and glue it in place around the outside edge of the box. I folded the fabric over at the top before gluing it down, so that it would have a nice clean edge - kind of like sewing, but with glue instead.
5. Turn the box over so that the bottom is sticking up, and fold the excess fabric as though you are wrapping a present, gluing the edges down as you go.
6. It's now ready to put in your drawer! Fill up with underwear or anything else you like.

To keep your box contents nice and tidy, try some organizational origami on your panties

1. Lay a pair of panties on a flat surface.
2. Fold over the left side by one third, so that it leaves a neat line edge to the left.
3. Fold over the right side by one third, so that you're left with a neat line edge to the right.
4. Fold the bottom up by one third, leaving a neat line edge at the bottom.
5. Fold the bottom edge up by another third, leaving you with a neat little rectangle to store away.

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Cat Morley is a 23 year old Scottish crafter, now living in London and running her Web site, Cut Out + Keep. Having started the site five years ago as a personal blog, it became a social network (and her full time job) after finishing university in 2007. The site has become home to over 6000 step-by-step craft tutorials, submitted from members across the globe. She is also the editor of the site's accompanying online magazine, Snippets.