DIY Hanging Hoop Laundry Bag

Posted in Home, Home Archive | Thursday, August 4th, 2011

I saw this over on Pinterest, (my new favorite hangout), and I couldn’t resist!

It’s originally from Martha Stewart

This laundry bag has 3 components:

• 12” embroidery hoop (she used a 14” one, but I felt it was too big.)
• Standard pillow case (you can use larger if you wish)
• OR regular sized laundry bag with drawstring
• Twine, string or ribbon to hang the whole thing up with

I made the pillowcase version, cuz, well, we’ve got a bunch of orphaned pillowcases laying around…

For those of you not familiar with embroidery hoops, they consist of two interlocking rings that are held together by tension from the outer ring in the form of a thumb screw.

Directions:

DIY Hanging Hoop Pillowcase Laundry Bag

1. Slip pillow case around the inner ring
2. Secure with outer ring, and tighten thumbscrew
3. Slip ribbon, string or rope around or through the thumbscrew
4. Hang it up!

DIY Hanging Hanging Drawstring Laundry Bag (Martha’s version)

1. Slip a drawstring laundry bag around the inner ring, letting the drawstring hang to the outside
2. Secure with outer ring, and tighten thumbscrew
3. Shorten drawstring if necessary by cutting it and retying it.
4. Hang it up!

12" embroidery hoop

thumbscrew

pull 1/4"-1/2" edge of the fabric through hoop

tighten thumbscrew

attach cord, tie or ribbon

Finished Product:

DONE!

Neat huh? It stays open without holding it, so you can easily toss things into it with one hand. (I keep my mine on the inside of the closet door myself.You could get fancy with this and paint the embroidery hoop, or use pretty pink ribbon for a girl’s room. Blue rope for a boy maybe? When I made one of these for Sexy, he hung it withan errant shoelace that had been driving crazy. Every couple of weeks, I pull off the pillowcase and wash it. This has helped us stay organized in our small bedroom. No more mounds of clothes spilling out of that stupid little rattan hamper that never went with the furniture anyway.

• What are your DIY laundry wrangling ideas?

You can find the items needed for this project in the Savvy Shop

• Embroidery hoop
• Organic Cotton Standard Pillowcase
• Twine
• Ribbon

4 Responses to “DIY Hanging Hoop Laundry Bag”

• Marisa says:

  August 4, 2011 at 8:14 PM

  I am trying this on saturday. We definitely need more containers for laundry. Yeah!!!
• nicole says:

  August 5, 2011 at 7:49 PM

  Wow this can be customized for any room. Thanks for sharing.
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  August 9, 2011 at 4:37 PM

  [...] a cloth laundry bag or hamper instead of plastic. You can buy a cloth bag, or you can make one: Savvy Brown has a cute, easy DIY laundry bag tutorial and  eHow has a DIY tutorial for a no-sew drawstring bag. Save money and recycle old sheets, [...]
• JKoi says:

  August 11, 2011 at 9:38 AM

  That is pretty nifty, especially when you have guests that are staying for a while, so they can keep their dirty laundry off the floor!