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.

How to Store:

• 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.)



I used the tute I found on Cut To Pieces (below) to wrangle my fabric stash.

• 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



my inspiration wall

• 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



Image by shimelle via Flickr

• 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



Image by Claudia Marchan via Flickr

• 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.)

Here's how things are looking these days around the Playground.