Pallet for Home

I don't know about you, but I have a ton of #10 cans.  You know, the biggest ones there are.  Usually it's what the canned peaches come in at Costco.  I also have alot of my food storage in them.  We have been rotating our reserves and I ended up with a lot of empty cans.  I can't re-seal them and I just couldn't bring myself to just stick them in the recycle bin.  So I came up with some easy slip covers for the cans to easily organize toys and other miscellaneous things.  Now that I have the design down, I plan to make a bunch more, and with all the different fabrics, really the possibilities are endless.  

Here's the how to:

You will need 2 pieces of fabric that are 20 inches by 7 1/2 inches.

and a circle that is 6 1/2 inches in diameter.

I added little windows for my labels, but that is totally optional but I'll show you how I did it.

Press the flaps flat to create the window.

Stitch the window and the top edge which will be the opening.

Pin the window on the 20x7 1/2 inch piece of fabric.  Turn the edges under and stitch in place.

Sew the short ends ( 7 1/2 inch sides ) together to form a tube. Do this with both pieces of rectangular fabric.

Hem the bottom edge of these tubes.

Now for the bottom.

Fold the circle in half and finger press to mark the lines.  Put pins in to help mark the creases.

Do the same with the tube without the window.  Pin in place matching the circle pins.

Here's to thrify up-cycling to organize my kiddo's life!