How to make Cable Organizing Strap for Hair-Dryer, Glue Gun, Soldering Iron, Charging Cables and others!

How to Make a Cable Storage Strap for Glue Gun, Hair Dryer and other small Home Appliances

Cables Straps are useful for storing them neatly in place. And they are not difficult to stitch up. It can be an hour project if you are an intermediate sewist or 2 if you are a beginner.

Not much materials and tools are required. You will need some basic stuff and velcro to make it.

Lets begin!

Mess of Cables

Things you will need:

Fabric Scraps
Felt
Velcro 1 inch wide tape
Matching thread
Measuring Tape
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors
Iron
Sewing Machine
Chopstick or any long blunt tool

How to Measure

First roll up the cable as you normally would.

Wrap measuring tape around it to see how wide the strap should be.

For my soldering iron, I am measuring around iron too as it is thinner and can be stored/secured with cable easily.

Measurement is 6 inches

Draw a Pattern

Width 6 + 1(overlap) + 1(seam) = 8 inches

Length should be 5.5 inches

From fabric, cut a piece of 8 x 5.5 inches.

From felt, cut 2 pieces, these should be smaller than fabric: 2 x 7 inches

Fold fabric in half horizontally and crease with iron. Open up and pin felt pieces on both halves.

Leaving half inch from all edges and half inch between both felt pieces.

Cut 1.5 inch pieces of velcro from both strips.

On right side of fabric, pin each velcro piece to opposite corners of fabric, half inch away from edges.

Start Sewing

Stitch velcro using longer stitch length such as 2.8. First stitch a rectangle, then a cross in it.

I have made a short video on how to secure velcro

Repeat same method for other piece of velcro.

Stitch a straight or zig zag stitch on the other end of felt to secure it to fabric.

Take out all the pins.

With right sides together, fold fabric in half horizontally.

With half inch seam allowance, start sewing from one folded corner following the red dots til yellow dot, back-stitch at beginning and end. Cut the threads.

Turn the piece over and start sewing from other folded end following the red dots to yellow dot, back-stitching at beginning and end.

Note: The space between the two yellow dots will be unsewn. Keep it minimum of 2 inches.

Clip the corners seam fabric, carefully not clipping the corner stitching.

Turn the strap inside-out through unsewn space. Neaten the corners by inserting chopstick inside and poking out the corner. If you do not have chopstick, use any other long blunt tool, like paintbrush, knitting needle etc.

Finishing

Now sew 2 parallel lines on each longer side of strap. One near to edge and other quarter of an inch away.

Back-stitch at beginning and end.

And your strap is done!

cable strap reversible

cable strap reversible

And its REVERSIBLE!!!

glue gun cable stored

Wrap the strap around the cable and secure with velcro.

neatly stored cables

As you can see my tools are neatly in place now, NO JUMBLED MESS OF CABLES STICKING EVERYWHERE!!! PHEW!

Make the straps longer, shorter, wider or narrower according to your preference and need.

soldering iron storage

hair dryer cable strap

laptop cable organized

Here I have made more Straps for my Hair-Dryer and Laptop Charging cable as well as Hot Glue Gun and Soldering Iron! A girl cannot have too much tools ;)

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