Organizing Sewing Rooms
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Welcome to Day 3 of 31 Days of Getting Organized!
Since quite a few of yesterday’s goals involve my sewing room, I thought that would be the most logical place to tackle first.
I don’t know about you, but keeping my sewing room organized is almost like a full time job…. I mean, last week my sewing “room” looked like this:
Now it looks like this:
Of course it doesn’t help that my sewing room isn’t a room – it is just a corner, and that corner is also where I do the ironing and folding, etc. So, it gets messed up quickly.
However, once I have a place for everything, it should be better..
Organizing a small sewing room isn’t easy… and I know many of you are in the same situation as I am.
I had sorted most things, but I still had one suitcase to unpack…… and then on the weekend Nora came to visit and brought this:
It is full of fabric that I left at her shop in Arabia because I couldn’t fit it in when we moved here in Jan.
Now I need to find space for two suitcases full of fabric and sewing stuff!! Oh well, what a problem to have 🙂
I thought I’d show you my how my sewing corner looks now, so that you get a bit of idea of the area I am trying to organize.
Starting from the left, which is at the foot of our bed, I have a desk:
Normally my computer lives there, but as you can see it still has sewing stuff on it 🙂
Next to that is the picture from above:
and then swinging further to the right of that is this:
Finally there is this little spot:
The suitcase is the one from Nora, full of fabric. The washing basket is holding my yarn until I find a home for it.
Now you know what I am starting with…. hopefully by the end of the month it will be all organized and we won’t have to move again (remember we have moved 4 times in the past year, around 28 times in our 25 years of marriage – I think I have officially lost count). Imagine how organized I’d be if we just stayed in one spot………… 🙂 🙂
That’s it for today… tomorrow I will be sharing my favorite storage solution for my sewing room… actually for all areas of my home!
I’m curious.. do you have a large sewing room? A sewing studio? A sewing nook? I’d love to know 🙂
Love the view when you sew!!
I do have a room, two in fact, but both are tiny spaces, with two doors and a window making it impossible to just have walls of shelving or even ONE wall of shelves! I think about taking the doors off the closets, but I have to be sure I’m not leaving here before I do that. They’d make nice wide shelves. LOL I’m looking forward to seeing how you organize. I do it over and over and don’t come up with anything convenient. Maybe I just have too much to keep track of!
Great view you have. I had a room to sew in until my son moved back home. Now my cutting area is beside my bed. The other side of my bed has fabric stashed beside it. My daughter’s room has more of my sewing stuff stashed in there. Oh yes my sewing machine, mustn’t forget that, it’s jammed between the built-ins in a little room off my bedroom & my view through the window is of the neighbours house & a poinciana tree. Hugs,xx
I have an unfinished basement room that I share with my daughter’s painting corner and the laundry equipment and some storage. So I do have storage shelves, but a pretty small area over all. Still, it’s better than nothing and is a place where I can leave my projects out without bothering anyone.
Hi Joy, Your day 2 post has given me an idea! I share my bedroom with my sewing/craft room. I have been running out to the kitchen to press but I will keep my eyes open for a small ironing board like you have on the counter now! I also use the kitchen bar island for cutting out because it is taller so will continue to do that as don’t have a space in the sewing area anyway. Where do you fit your long arm quilter in??? Nancy
Well you know what my space looks like, and it stretches all over the house as well as in the 2 front rooms! But if I had moved as often as you, I probably would not have so much stuff! (And really your stuff is spread in 2 places if you count your Australian home!!??)
Its a lovely window there for you to look out and dream up creations! When we love doing something we can make anything work can’t we? I do have a big room – it’s actually a ‘good room’ ala the second lounge and I keep that organised as it is a work place…. I have another small room which is my ‘stash room’ which is less organised… but fun to go hunting in!
Hugz
You have a great view and lots of light. I use the 2nd bedroom for my creative space, and it only has one window, which faces west so in the summer the blinds are closed most of the day to keep the heat down. I have a variety of creative interests – quilting, art journal, Zentangle, collage, etc. My supplies for all of those are kept in separate containers on separate shelves. My fabric is kept on shelves in the closet. This is the largest and most organized space I’ve enjoyed in several years. Even so I have to clean up and reorganize fairly often. Your space will be fantastic when you finish.
Four moves in a year and 28 in 25 years? I simply can’t wrap my head around that – if I moved that often I think I’d just live out of suitcases and never bother to unpack! My creative space has varied over the years, beginning with a hallway that had shelves on either side along with a narrow counter space. From there I had a small corner in a basement and then a large basement space in our last house. Now we live in an apartment and I have the second bedroom which also serves as a guest bedroom and computer space. For the most part I’m well organized in here but there are still areas that need work….including finding a couple of strong men that are willing to manhandle the pull out couch out of here so I can have shelving space. We don’t have overnight guests any more so the couch is just a place to pile clutter.
I’m spoiled. I have a sewing room about 8×10 with a window in front of my sewing machine. I took the doors off closet and DH built shelves inside from my fabric. I also have an office where I formerly ran my medical transcription business, which still houses my computer and my other crafts. I do have yarn in hall closet and a room upstairs.
I can see you getting it organised, then when you get “doing”, & if you’re like me, it becomes a mess again. And so it goes on & on. I’m never organised these days with Bubs in the walkway of the familyroom & the small bedroom at the back for my sewingroom. Oh well, that’s the way it is. Can’t wait to see your next installment. Take care.
Our ideas always exceed our storage space! You will work it all out!
OK, when I get back from Indiana, I am starting from day one. Don’t hold me to a month though!!!! Please. Maybe I could do a corner at a time???????????????????? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I love the purple quilt. I have to pull out the one I did a million years ago and finish it. And the million other ones!! OK, must pack–could you please help me with that???????????
Imagine how much stuff you would have accumulated if you didn’t move around!!! hahaha xx
I have sewing table in the corner of the spare bedroom, an overflowing shelf next to that and several draws full of sewing ‘stuff’. Then in the 2nd spare bedroom, my finished tops hang in the wardrobe and more draws full of more ‘stuff’. Add another bookshelf with containers in a 3rd (office) room 🙂 I keep trying to condense everything into one place but that’s an ongoing project.
What a great view when sewing. X