{"id":901,"date":"2025-04-29T04:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newdadsewingschool.com\/wordpress\/?p=901"},"modified":"2025-04-29T04:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:58:45","slug":"sew-a-diy-car-organizer-and-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newdadsewingschool.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/sew-a-diy-car-organizer-and-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Sew a DIY Car Organizer and Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In sewing this DIY car organizer you’ll see that the beauty of knowing how to sew is that you can create your own designs for organizers that solve storage needs specific to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Backstory<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My wife and I have always strived to maintain a low screen time environment in the car with our our kids. The one exception being really long road trips, and we use a portable DVD player as the nuclear option. That being said, maintaining low screen time in the car with our kids requires a lot of books and activities in the car that my daughter can play with in the car seat. And as things go with stuff in the car, entropy is the name of the game. Stuff ends up in the car but never gets taken out. So things start to pile up, next to the car seat, behind the car seat and in front of the car seat. And this gets messy. And I try to for the books and stuff into the car seat pockets but these are really small. The option then is to get a car organizer for the back seat. But these cost money. So my plan to mitigate this is to sew my own organizer using my leftover fabric stash of cotton canvas and save some money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits of Sewing Custom Designs Like this DIY Organizer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By sewing a homemade car organizer myself I also have the luxury of customizing the design of the organizer to suit my individual needs and the predilections of my own child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this project I am using canvas fabric and a thick interfacing to make it more firm. To make it easier I\u2019m also just going to sandwich the interfacing between two layers of canvas and sew it up with bias around the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am doing two pockets here. The lower pocket I plan to overlap with the top opening of the car seat pocket so that I can tuck books into it and keep it from swinging around while driving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the two pockets you can also use this as a wall organizer if you don\u2019t use it in your car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DIY Car Organizer Design<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The organizer will consist of a main panel made up of three layers: 1) top layer of cotton canvas, 2) middle layer of stiff interfacing to give it structure and 3) bottom layer of cotton canvas. There will be two pockets. This will all be sealed around the edges by fabric bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the top there will be a strap that you can loop around the head rest of the seat. To make it more secure when driving, so the books or other things in there don\u2019t flop around, I am adding two velcro straps across the main body panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Assembled Pieces<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Cut
Cut out your panel pieces and pockets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n