This no-sew project is an easy tutorial on making a fabric-covered magazine holder using cotton quilt fabric for easy organizing and home decor ideas.

DIY Magazine Holder

When you need something inexpensive for organizing items around the house, especially some files for magazines, you can make this DIY magazine holder. It is for more than just keeping magazines. I use it as a folder organizer for all paperwork, school papers, and some kid’s artwork.

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A while back, I found the cardboard magazine holders at Ikea.. But you can also find a similar magazine holder online. It looks simple, just plain white, and screams for any makeover.

The easiest way to customize this folder organizer from Ikea is by covering it with fabric. You can also use wrapping paper. The advantage of using fabric is that it has more prints to choose from and is a more durable material than paper.

Supply To Make Fabric-Covered Magazine Holders

You only need fabric and glue to make fabric-covered magazine holders. You can use fabric glue, heavy-duty craft glue, or tacky glue. You can also use parchment paper, an old newspaper, or gift wrapping paper to make the pattern. Or trace it on the fabric directly.

You can cover the outside and inner sides with one yard of fabric with the same print and colours for both sides. 

To make both sides have different colors and prints, use half a yard of fabric for the outside and one piece of fat quarter size for the inner side.

Cotton quilt fabric is perfect for this project because it is lightweight, inexpensive, and has more fun prints available.

• Flyt magazine holder or a similar one, or white cardboard magazine holder
• Half-yard cotton quilt fabric for the outside
• 1 piece of fat-quarter size fabric for the inner side
• Tacky glue or fabric glue
• Disappeared ink fabric marker, I use this dual-purpose marker
• Scissors
• Paper for making a template could be parchment paper, wrapping paper or used newspaper (optional)
• Pinking Shears (optional)

How To Cover Magazine Holders With Fabric

The video tutorial is also available. Click on this link to watch the Fabric-Covered Magazine Holder video tutorial on my YouTube channel and subscribe for more videos.

Trace the shape of all four sides of the magazine holder on the fabric for the outside.

Cut the fabric 1″ from the traced line.

Trace each shape of all four sides on the fabric for the inside.

Cut each piece of the traced shape for the inner side.

Apply glue on each side of the magazine holder.

Attach the fabric on each side of the magazine holder, and ensure no wrinkles or folded fabric.

Use Pinking shears to trim the overlapping fabric’s raw edge on the short side (optional). Glue the overlapping fabric.

Clip or fringe cut the extra fabric on both top curve sides. Glue all the extra fabric on the top into the inner side. Fold and glue the fabric on the bottom side.

Glue all fabric pieces for the inner side. If there is any extra fabric, cut a piece of rectangle fabric and glue it on the bottom of the magazine holder. If there isn’t any extra fabric available, it is ok to skip this one.

Once all glue dries up, the fabric-covered magazine holder is ready to use.

I used the same cupcake-printed fabric from the laptop sleeve tutorial, the sewing notion printed fabric from the cork board makeover and ironing board cover, and the tropical printed fabric from the casserole carrier tutorial.

Note: If you want to make several fabric-covered magazine holders, trace all cut-up fabric pieces on parchment paper, wrapping paper or used newspaper to make it faster when tracing all fabric pieces.

Fabric Covered Folder Organizer Holder

If you want to label the folder organizer holder, use the sticker label or make your own. Use the glue if the label is not sticky enough to the fabric.

My office cabinet has wood material with a glossy finish. I found that magazine file holders made of paper boxes, wood, plastic, or metal can scratch the cabinet surface. 

To prevent this, I put the rubber grip pad for the rug underneath the magazine file holder. Also, covering the bottom with fabric can prevent the box from scratching the cabinet surface.

This project is one of the easy ways to update the home decor. Other than functional, fabric-covered folder organizer also make the room less cluttered. If you change your home decor theme or color, you can easily modify the cover by removing it carefully or wrapping the new fabric on the previous one.

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