DIY Leather Charging Cord Organizer

How many times has your husband asked you where his charger is? If you don’t know, then one of you is digging through a drawer of cords hoping to find an extra one that fits his phone. It’s frustrating and eats up valuable time that you don’t have. Save time and energy by storing your chargers in a DIY leather charging cord organizer. The adjustable leather cord holds your charging cords and wall adapters to keep everything organized in one place. It makes traveling easier because you can grab it and go, confident that you have what you need. Additionally, it is so easy to make that it is a perfect DIY gift!

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This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

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Materials

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 1

Trim a piece of scrap leather into a rectangle. It can be any size you like but I recommend no smaller than 12 inches by 5 inches.

Tip:

  • You can be a precise as you would like but don’t feel like you have to be. Having some irregularities adds a more rustic touch to your organizer.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 2

Punch a hole in the center edge of the right side of your rectangle.

Note:

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 3

Fold your leather in half lengthwise and cut notches every two inches with your scissors. Make sure that you have an odd number of notches that are large enough to thread your leather cording through.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 4

Unfold your leather and thread your cording through. Start by threading the cord through your punched hole and next continue weaving back and forth through the notches.

Tip:

  • Only leave enough of the leather cording through the punched hole to secure it to your organizer. The excess cording should be at the opposite end.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 5

Push your brad through the punched hole with the prongs coming through the inside of your organizer. Fold out the prongs over the cording to secure them.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 6

Place a few stitches through your organizer and cording end at the brad to secure the cording thoroughly. You don’t want it pulling out when you tighten the cord around your chargers.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 7

Cut a small square of leather out of a piece that you trimmed off in step 1.

 

Step 8

Center the leather square over the cording and brad on the inside of your organizer.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 9

Secure the leather square into place by sewing a whipstitch around the edges.

Tip:

  • For a cleaner look, do not stitch all of the way through your organizer. Instead thread about halfway into your organizer leather and pull back up through your leather square. This is so that your stitches are not visible on the outside of your organizer.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 10

Lastly, add your charging cords and adapters and tighten your cording.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

Step 11

Roll up your DIY leather charging cord organizer and wrap the excess cording around the outside to secure.

 

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

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This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

This is such an easy and inexpensive way to organize all of your chargers in one place. You can change the look to fit your style by using a different color of leather for your organizer or cording. A DIY leather charging cord organizer is also a perfect DIY gift for the guys in your life. It is handsome and practical to delight even the most difficult men to shop for. If you want to make one for everyone on your gift list, opt for buying a yard of leather instead of using a scrap piece. Then you can cut all of your organizers at once and have enough to make them in bulk! I’d love to hear who you would make yours for. Let me know in the comments!

This DIY leather charging cord organizer holds your cords and wall adapters to keep everything in one place. Perfect for yourself or as an easy DIY gift!

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Easy Star Wars Sleep Shorts

There is nothing better than slipping into comfy pj’s at night. It is a comfort that starts in childhood with your parents zipping you into footie pajamas after a warm bath. It makes you feel safe and loved. That’s why a soft and comfortable pair of sleep shorts is the perfect gift for your kids. It is easier to make than you think even if you’re not a skilled seamstress. These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

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Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

 

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Materials

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 1

First, lay your piece of fabric flat and iron any wrinkles out of it.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 2

Fold the piece of fabric in half (long ways) twice. It should look like the photo above.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 3

Fold the pair of athletic shorts in half and place on your folded fabric. Line up the straight edge of the shorts with one side of the folded fabric. Leave a quarter inch of the fabric edge exposed. This will be the side seam.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 4

Cut around the pair of shorts and be sure to cut through all of the layers of fabric. Leave a quarter inch allowance on all of the sides of the shorts except the top (waist). Leave a 1.5 inch allowance at the waist.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 5

Pull apart the cut out pieces of fabric on because one of your edges lined up on a fold. There should be 3 cuts of fabric.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

 

Step 6

Place the 2 smaller cuts of fabric together with right sides facing each other. Make sure that the cuts are lined up.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 7

Pin the straight edge of the fabric together and sew the seam.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

 

Step 8

Open up your newly sewn piece and match with your second, unsewn, piece. Line up the edges of the fabric with (newly sewn seam in the center) with right sides facing together. (See picture for reference.)

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 9

Pin the curved edges at the top of the left and right sides.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

 

Step 10

Sew where you have pinned. Stop where the fabric comes to a point (about the middle of each side).

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 11

Pull on the straight seams of the fabric so that your curved seams are lined up in the center (when you lay them flat, they should look like shorts).

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 12

Pin each inseam.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 13

Sew each inseam separately. Start your stitch at the bottom and sew towards top. Be sure you overlap the curved seam’s stitch slightly. Repeat for the second inseam.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 14

Pin the bottom hems of each leg.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 15

Sew each leg hem.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 16

Next, pin the hem at the waist of the shorts. The hem should be an inch and a half (that same excess you left when cutting).

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 17

Sew the waist hem and leave a gap at least an inch wide in your stitch. This allows you to thread your elastic through.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

 

Step 18

Attach a safety pin to the end of your elastic.

Tip:

  • If you don’t have any safety pins (I did not, as you can see above) you can use a paperclip as well.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 19

Pull the elastic through the waist and then pull back the fabric so that you can sew the ends of your elastic together.

Tips:

  1. Don’t cut your elastic before threading. This will keep you from pulling the loose end of your elastic all the way out of your seam.
  2. Measure your elastic by wrapping it around the circumference of the waist hem and subtracting one inch from that length. Feel free to mark it with anything because it will be hidden inside the waist of the shorts.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 20

Cut off the excess elastic and trim any excess threads hanging from the seams.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Step 21

Turn the shorts right-side out, wash, and enjoy.

 

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

Comfy pj's are the best part of bedtime! These fun and easy Star Wars sleep shorts can be made in under an hour, no pattern needed!

This seems like a lot of steps but the project comes together quickly. Don’t forget that you can personalize these to suit your child’s tastes. Also, since the pair of shorts you use to measure dictates the final outcome, the sleep shorts will automatically be their desired length. Pair these with the birthday card frame and have a last-minute gift that is thoughtful and personalized.

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Princess and the Pony Painted Sweater Craft

Reading with your child is such an important activity. It brings you closer, improves his or her skills, and provides many opportunities for important conversations. That is why I take part in the Monthly Crafting Book Club every month. (You can see previous months on the Kid Crafts page.) The book for this month is The Princess and the Pony. I had never heard of this book before but I must say that it is spectacular! The story is adorable and the illustrations even more so. The best part is that it easily lends itself to this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

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Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

 

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Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Materials

Step 1

Create a workspace for your child to work on. This is a messy craft and you don’t want to ruin your table. Cover it with a tablecloth or newspaper to protect it.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 2

Keep your kids’ clothes safe with an apron, like this kid decorated apron.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 3

Lay the sweatshirt flat on your work surface.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 4

Put a piece of cardboard inside the sweatshirt to protect the back from any paint that might bleed through.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 5

Put a selection of paint colors on the palettes and let your kiddos go nuts.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 6

Allow the sweatshirt to dry for at least 12 hours.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 7

Throw the painted sweatshirt in the dryer on high for a full cycle. This sets the paint.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Step 8

Wash and dry like normal.

 

Reading with your child brings you closer, improves skills, and is fun! Enjoy The Princess and the Pony with this fun and messy painted sweater craft!

Your kids will love making this painted sweater craft after reading The Princess and the Pony. They will love wearing it and showing it off even more. While they are creating it, take the opportunity to ask them if they have ever been disappointed in a gift they received. Ask them how they handled it and if they eventually enjoyed it. Follow up the questions by telling them about a time you were upset by a gift you received and how you dealt with it. Once you’ve finished this craft go check out the other awesome Princess and the Pony crafts from my friends!

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