How do you organize your presser feet
 

Organized?? ha!! My feet are all mixed together in a little rectangular tin that came with the machine.

That said, I hardly ever change my feet. My avatar machine always has a regular old foot on it and my FMQ machine has a darning foot.

Same here!!

I do keep my feet for my 401 separate from my 2662.

Now for my serger and my emb machine I have the nice leather binders to put them all in. Before that I went to Walmarts and got a small 3 drawer cube and then in the med isle I got little bags made to put your daily meds in and you can write on the bag. I put each one in a bag with the instructions and put the name on the outside. Worked great. I still use the cube to put the small screw drivers, etc for my machine in.

since i have several brands of machines, i store the attachments in clear deli containers and write the machine name on the top with a sharpie.

I keep mine in a pill container that has 14 days of the week & each little space has a snap up lid.
I have marked the lid with the initial of the presser foot on the lid.

[QUOTE=Tartan;7136931]I have a cute little case that my Bernina feet hang in......./QUOTE]

IMHO that cute little case with the Bernina was just that ... cute!
But not really practical.
Fine if you have the perfect place in your sewing room to put it.
Fine if you only have a few feet to store, and let hang in their cute little way.
Not so good, if you get any extras!

I soon learned it was not going to work for me.

I found a plastic box with dividers in.
Perfect size for each foot to sit in its own little compartment.
They can stay in order by their foot number, and I can easily find them, as a result.
The buttonhole foot is larger, so out came a couple of the dividers to allow for that.

There are enough sections that I can keep the extra needles in the same box ... again divided according to type and size.

Works for me!

I have a bag with zippered compartments

I use a parts cabinet/drawers like this one from Harbor Freight. You'll find plenty of uses for the extra sizes. Other sizes re available from Walmart or the hardware store.

Storehouse 94375 40 Bin Organizer with Full Length Drawer

Hi everyone! I use small inexpensive tackle boxes. I have multiple machines that frequently travel with me. I label the tackle box as to machine and make sure manuals and any other "tweaking" notes stay in the box. If I have a foot that I have attended a class on or have found a great website/video on, I make sure the notes on where to find that info get stashed in the box with the machine's manual. For my machines that are stubborn about bobbins I add small plastic organizers also inexpensively purchased in sporting goods sections, think dollar store,larger department store. The best organizers I have found are bait buckets with divided sections on the lids. These allow me to carry projects/mending with me easily while keeping machine specific feet and tools readily available. I rarely use those little boxes that come with machines, I dump them on the floor too often!! I do have one notebook like carrier with see through pockets for my Viking embroidery machine. But I love my tackle boxes!

I have a large skinny drawer that mis part of my cabinet that I keep my feet in in their originol boxes. no more room so I can't buy anymore. But I think I have enoguh. They are Berrnina feet so they fit all the machines I have had over the years.

I have a small cabinet where the top drawer I keep my feet. Basically, I use my 1/4" and walking foot the most.

I use clear fishing tackle boxes with dividers in each one. The are flat, stack nicely, and all items can be seen easily.

I purchased a box with dividers designed for fishing supplies from Walmart. It is slightly larger than a child's pencil box and it has removeable dividers. I'm certain that this box cost me less than $4.00. All of my Bernina feet fit including my walking foot and my stitch regulator.

That is exactly what i use. I use a asharpie to mark the lids. It will wipe off but no big deal.

Sandy

Each machine has it's own plastic pencil box with all accessories in it. Some machines have larger boxes, like the embroidery machine but they are all marked with machine make and model it goes to.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80098583/#/80098583
Any small container you like. I found these at Ikea.

I have a silverware holder in my drawer and divide the feet accordingly

I love your idea! I plan on trying it since I have several feet and different machines I can have a pill box for each machine! All I need to do is count how many feet for each machine and then decide what style box will work the best.
Thank you for the great idea to get more organized!

You can store them in a egg carton ? Hope this helps.

I store my feet in a case made for embroidery floss. Each foot has it own section. There are plastic dividers that can be moved to accommodate larger feet.

I have the large plastic bead box. Then made labels with my label maker for each foot. This saves me from having to look in each one to find the one I want.

I purchased the Alex drawer unit from Ikea a few years ago. It sits right next to my machine and doubles as support for quilting large quilts. My presser feet are in the top drawer in compartments from a broken fishing tackle box (which was my first attempt at organizing my feet/tools). It is a little shorter than my machine table but works for me. I keep everything I need for my machine in that one unit, right at my finger tips. Zippers, buttons, elastic, tools...you name it; if it belongs to my machines, its in that drawer unit along with other sewing notions. The bottom three drawers hold threads/embroidery threads nicely. It will even hold serger threads turned on their sides. I think I paid 100 bucks for it and is worth its weight in gold (imho).

My Bernina and Babylock provided special plastic containers. Depending on how many feet, size, etc a plastic lure box (similar to those in craft sections for beads etc) might be a good choice. I think they are. Bit bigger

Count me in as another non-fisherwoman who shops in the fishing section at Wal-Mart. :) I bought some adorable little tackle boxes with movable dividers to hold my presser feet. Sometimes you have to sacrifice two sections to hold the bigger ones (like the walking foot).

I have one of those fishing tackle boxes. I have two sewing machines that I use most of the time. One side holds the feet etc for my Brother and the other side has my Singer stuff in it. Stuck a label on each side to remind me which machine parts are which. See pics
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I have a zippered bag, which holds pages that open like a book. Each page holds 6 clear vinyl zippered pockets. Additional pages can be inserted, like a book, held in by velcro. When you open the bag, there are 12 pockets visible at once. Each pocket holds a foot with a small cloth sample, showing what that foot does. (Making it easy when you want a particular technique, immediately I can see which foot does what I want it to do). I keep it right next to my machine for quick foot change, opens easily, and shows me what that foot does. It opens and lays flat or you can hang it by the handle on a wall hook. I also have additional velcro'd pages in there for the feet from another machine I use a lot. I tried changing to a plastic box with compartments but I changed back to the zippered clear vinyl pockets, because there was space enough to include the technique sample with the foot.

I agree about the Bernina box. I couldn't get the feet to stay put in the box. I have a plastic box that used to be a candle sampler box when I was selling candles. It has divided areas and everything fits in nicely.
I thought that I was the only one who could not figure out how to keep all of the feet inside that cute little box----and I only have one extra foot since my machine is new and I still need lessons to operate it.
(I couldn't use cookie sheets because mine are somewhat greasy from so many cookies. I do wash the cookie sheets but they really don't come CLEAN enough to work around fabric).

This is what I do.

I went to the fishing/tackle department of Wal-Mart and found a small little box with divided sections that hold each foot. I have one for each machine.

the cases for little Matchbox cars are the perfect size

I have 13 machines, most of them from the 50's, so I tend to group the feet by type of shank they fit, more than the machine they actually came with (or were bought for).

I keep types that fit on the same type of shank together, but beyond that they're usually just jumbled into a box or tin together with their kin. My 6600's box has a little slot for each foot but that's the best-organized set I have.

I don't seem to need to have them laid out separately from each other; as long as it's the right fit for the shank on the machine I'm trying to use I don't mind rummaging a little bit to find the exact foot I'm looking for. For me I'd have a harder time storing a large box, so it's worth it to have a compact jumble of feet to save space. It only takes me a few seconds to find what I'm looking for.

I don't have THAT many feet of any one type though; short-shank is the one I have the most of but I solve that by just keeping one set out that holds one of every type of foot I have; all the duplicates are put away in the cupboard.

Ditto. I get mine in the Wal-mart tackle box area. Also I get the kind that allows the user to adjust the size of the compartments.

My Bernina 440 has the cool little plastic box with spots to hang the feet. I have had to buy some extra hangers because I love feet, but they work. My older 1031 didn't have anything to hold extra feet so I used a box designed to hold Micromachines (remember those?). Worked great.

This is one sale this weekend for 14.99. They also have a 24 compartment organizer that you can customize the dividers (3.99). I like it as it is easy to travel.

I have 2 machines side by side. I keep the most used feet in the little slip out tray that you pull out to do free-arm. The rest are a plastic case in the top drawer of the table the machine is sitting on. If too large of a foot like the free-motion foot, I keep it in its box it came in. Organized, ................not really but it works for me.

I use a tool holder from the hardware department which goes on my pegboard. I think it was intended to hold screw drivers. Each foot fits between two small prongs.

I use plastic boxes used for Hot Wheels cars, bought them at Walmart...don't know if they still carry them
they work great...have one for each machine.