The Best Sewing/Craft Room Organizing Tips: Just a Click Away!
I had such a fun time the other day posting pics of my sewing room. I have designs to continue to tweak it to better organize all my supplies, and I'll post an update when I do (update: Here's how it's looking after some major reorganization). Until then, enjoy this little list of organizing solutions for all your crafty needs. Got a great tip or link that I missed? Leave me a comment or email me at skooksplayground[at]gmail[dot]com.
- Fabric
1. Stacked Saris, 2. fabrics, 3. Stacked Saris - Confessions of a Fabric Addict via Stash Manicure: (Use your sewing ruler to achieve stash folding nirvana.)
- Happy Zombie: (Pretty much the same as above, but she posted it first.)
- Crafty Girls Workshop: (same as the first 2, but a video if you are having a hard time getting the concept.)
- The Fabric Organizer: (Pricey, yes. But if you want your sewing room to look like a fabric store, this would probably be your most direct route.)
- The Little Green Bean: (Or you could DIY the idea above and still get the fabric store look without the hefty price tag.)
- Cut To Pieces: (Ingenious idea, similar to the above idea, using comic book boards with a little note about folding fat quarters!) [This is the route I went in my own sewing room. You can check it out here.]
- Just Something I Made: (Sweet idea for storing your fabric remnants. Reminds me of what fabric stores do with their remnants when they clearance them out. Only cuter.)
- Tallgrass Prairie Studio via Stash Manicure: (Once it's all folded, try this wire shelving system with lots of labels and bins!)
- Stash Manicure: (A great way to house works in progress as well as all those little bitty pieces using salvaged food containers! Especially awesome for quilters.)
- Cut Out and Keep: (This is if you want to get REALLY anal about documenting your stash for reference purposes. Seems like it would take a long time, but might be worth it for true fabric hoarders who really have no idea what they have anymore and need to take inventory.)
- Knock Off Wood: (DIY build it yourself cubby organizer to hold your delicious fabric stash - scroll down to check out the after pic!)
- Just Enough Style: (Low on space, maybe something over the door would work best for you.)
- Kootoyoo: (Brilliant little video on how to fold a fat quarter so it doesn't fall apart.) I used this technique in my own sewing room with my vintage sheet fat quarters:
- TrueUp: (For when your fabric organization hasn't been the best and you ran out of something and don't remember what it's called. Great links on this page.)
- Patterns/Books
Image by AForestFrolic via Flickr - The Domestic Diva: (Boat load of ideas here. If you've got a serious stash you will find a solution here, I can pretty much guarantee it.)
- Badskirt: (Amy's finally found a solution that works for her, could get pricey if you are a person who has LOTS of patterns, but might be great for a smaller stash.)
- Buttons
- Design Sponge: (This won't store LOTS of buttons, but it's cute and would make a nice little wall display for your faves.)
- Skooks' Playground: (Ok, this is my own post, but I still love this idea for stashing buttons in a most delectable way.)
- Inspiration
- Decor8: (Adorable in a grouping, now those little hoops of your fave fabrics can hold your little treasures of inspiration as well.)
- Creating by Cami: (Keep them in a book . . . a cute one. And it's easier than you think.)
- The Time
- Lunique via Craftster: (Why use a premade clock when you can make one yourself? Not a pattern, but definitely inspirational! Ok, so this isn't exactly an organizing link, but I LOVE it and want to make one for my sewing room so I couldn't resist throwing it in there.)
- General Crafty Supplies/Notions
- Clean Mama: (DIY lazy susan idea for holding all kinds of pens, pencils, markers, brushes, scissors, anything!)
- In My Own Style: (About halfway down the page there is a picture of the inside of an armoire that has been tricked out to organize all the little things. Definitely worth checking out if you're wondering how to organize a cupboard to hold as much as it can while still keeping stuff accessible.)
- Skooks' Playground: (Here's how I keep all my sewing needles straight. Great product and easy to DIY if you really wanted to!)
- Make It and Love It: (Cute bins actually made using recycled cardboard. Who'd be the wiser? And you can customize them to your preferred color palette.)
- Vanilla Joy: (Make some cute labels and store all your notions in separate wide mouth mason jars. Such a cute idea!)
- Just Between Friends: (Sweet DIY Ikea shelving hack for ribbon and thread storage.)
- Crafty Storage: (A blog dedicated to . . . well . . . crafty storage.)
- Scissors
- DMC Threads: (Make a scissors "picture" and always know where they are. LOVE this idea.)
- Skooks' Playground: (Reclaiming Hobby Lobby Home Decor clearance - this is what I ended up doing in my sewing room.)
- Embroidery Floss
- The Twisted Stitcher: (Know which exact color you have while still being able to keep them on bobbins.)
- Skooks' Playground: (This is how I've been storing my wayward threads these days.)
- Gift Wrap
- Givers Log: (Pare down and it's less overwhelming . . . and then keep it all together like this.)
- General Studio Inspiration
- Hello, My Name is Heather: (Heather Bailey was probably my biggest inspiration as I went into the process of making my sewing room. Her studio reminded me that I could repaint my childhood bedroom furniture and reuse them in a super functional and chic way.)
- Allsorts: (Jenny B has a completely HUGE and enviable studio. Lots of great ideas in here.)
- Skooks' Playground: (I curated a little gallery over on a Flickr of beautiful creative spaces awhile back. I still refer to it when I'm brainstorming ideas on how to switch things up in there.)
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I used the tute I found on Cut To Pieces (below) to wrangle my fabric stash. |
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my inspiration wall |
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Image by shimelle via Flickr |
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Image by Claudia Marchan via Flickr |
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Here's how things are looking these days around the Playground. |
