Earring Organizer

I did it, I did it, I DID IT!   I finished my blinds!   But, unfortunately, the OC (obsessive compulsive) part of my makeup says that FIRST, I need to finish the jewelry.  And since I realized I had one major type of jewelry left (earrings), that's today's post.  

One of my girls (I don't actually have children of my own) was bopping around Pinterest and found a way to store her earrings.   

Please understand that she is the earring queen, so she really needed this.  She picked up the supplies then came to our party.  After dinner, we set to work.  She did all the work, I contributed some experience and a wee bit of encouragement, but, really, it was all her.  She was nice enough to let me blog it, though.  

I don't have any pictures except the finished product.  This is what it looks like:  

She came in with square dowels (if THAT makes any sense) and a length if burlap.  My Ken added a staple gun, I added some complimentary binding, and her sister lent us her sewing machine. 

First, we trimmed the burlap to true.  I just figured the innermost edge and cut along it, but it might be better to square it up using quilting methods, since burlap is such a coarse weave.  

Once it was trimmed, her sister showed us how to run the sewing machine.  And I showed her how to put the binding on the long open edges.  The binding was to keep the raw edges from unravelling.  

Then, she and Ken carefully (straightly) stapled the top edge to the square dowel.  Then, keeping good tension, they wrapped the burlap around the dowel until the original staples were covered, then put some more staples through both layers to secure to the dowel.  Repeat for the bottom dowel, being sure that the wrapping is going in the right direction. 

Finally, she just tied some kind if cording to the top and hung it up.

It works great, and she has requests in from family members to make more!