I’m busy making my main studio space more usable… check out my progress AND enter my giveaway!
I give you a BEFORE tour
My main studio space is where I work all the time. It has my projects in progress, machines, computer, and most of my fabric.
About 3pm I started pulling all the projects out of my studio space to resort them and put them into better size container and more effective & productive spots for my use. I did a video for you
For the post part I’m not doing fabric, just projects.
That includes all the different products I review or test. PLUS I had some UFOs in my main space that were not being worked on and taking up valuable work space. They needed to be moved.
Taking it out is EASY.
Deciding how to regroup and where in my studio should it now be, is more difficult. I started when I got up.
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For our family business we work at home, so our whole small home has become our office.
We have no basement and no usable attic. So my business takes up 4 rooms in our home.
- My studio is my main work room and what you see all the time. It is the family room of our home, it’s what in the videos with my beautiful Koala Furniture and my Baby lock machines
- The shipping department has one room as his office.
- We have 1 other rooms for quilts, batting, notions, projects not being working on, other fabric, books, etc.
- AND the ‘over flow’ room right now is our dining room as it can’t all fit in the one room upstairs. The photo above is one wall in my dining room. On the wall is my village quilt (BUY the pattern here), and the blocks are from my Triangle book (HERE)
In my studio I keep JUST what I’m working on and my main fabric. On that video I talk about it being messy. It is ‘messy’ in that projects were not in optimum work places, split across areas, and things got put in spots that took up valuable space in my small room
Now for a few photos of my ‘after’
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Keeping it organized keeps my sanity 
Hope you enjoy watching as I make progress!
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I use a marking pen (Texta) and write on the outside of my plastic bins. When I want to change what is in them the writing comes of will nail polisher remover on a cotton ball. and when this has dried an I can write what is in the container this time round.
My biggest problem is I try to over organize and then I can’t find anything because I have too many categories. I need to learn to macro organize instead of micro organize.
My problem is too much stuff!
My biggest organizing problem is my storage closet. It was custom built in when the house was being built so nothing can be moved around to better reflect the size. I’m stuck with the shelves and drawers right where they are!
My biggest problem is no sewing space.
I don’t have a sewing space or the money to do all I would like to do.
Biggest problem? Probably having too much! I need a better way to organize so I can SEE what I have. I spend a lot of time looking for a fabric I know I have, but can’t find it in a tote.
Your studio looks awesome as it is Pat! I admire your ambition to make it even more beautiful. My biggest organizational problem is non-sewing stuff that works its way into my studio when I am cleaning/decluttering other areas. The studio becomes the staging area for packing boxes to donate to Good Will, piling up mending or other fix-it projects, hiding birthday presents,etc.
My biggest problem is keeping track of the projects I’m working on. I try to keep a list and prioritize the projects. But that doesn’t always work. 😊
My biggest problem is that my sewing room is too small for the amount of things I have in it. I think I should go through my fabric shelves and purge some which would make more storage space available.
I have a problem with too much stuff for my room. I tend to stack things on any horizontal surface since all the closets and drawers are full. Thus my paths are getting very narrow!
My biggest organizational problem is how to store my notions. Right now they are stashed in various clear plastic shoe boxes on shelves, but I’d really like to get them back in the closet somehow. But the closet is full of fabric and spare sewing machines.
My biggest problem is finding what I want when I need. Too much stuff!
I need a larger space. My sewing room is upstairs “bonus room” above the garage, the walls are slanted. I can’t hang anything on the wall, and it does limit storage.
Amazing sewing room, notions, fabrics. I would feel so blessed to have something from your sewing room, Pat 🙂
I may or may not use it. lol ..Thanks for all you do for us quilters. A new sewing room in the future, some day!
My biggest problem is a lack of a storage system. Right now my fabric is in bags and bins waiting for shelves or a cabinet
My biggest storage problem is my fabric storage. It is kept in large tubs that are heavy to move and hard to see what exactly is in them. Maybe I need to clear out some of my older fabric that I may never use.
my biggest organizational problem is, where to store the batting! I like to get the batting as soon as I know the finish size. Sometimes I just buy it because it was on sale and it’s a new kind to try. Right now it’s on the floor in the way to the closet! I think that’s what I’ll be organizing this week! Thanks for the inspiration!
When I finish a project, I don’t know what to do with what’s left. Sometimes I will put it in my scraps. Sometimes if I really like the fabric collection, I tend to want to sit it aside so that it can be used for another project. I hate to separate fabrics from their original grouping. This causes my fabric to be disorganized when I am looking for something.
My biggest problem is trying to complete something before I get distracted by the next new thing I want to try–hence lots of UFOs! I really need to get this under control–I’m now in my 70s & I was recently diagnosed with cancer, so I’m obviously not going to live forever, after all! BUMMER!!!
Space. My sewing room is only 10×12 I have a floor to ceiling bookcase, cutting table, ironing table, a large sewing table and a bunch of wall shelves. I think I’m as organized as I can be, for the side of the room.
So many issues with organization- but right now threads are a challenge. sewing, quilting, hand quilting and other categories then there is colors. I have threads in a container right now, but am thinking of a peg rack (gets dusty and fading) or clear plastic containers by color? not convinced yet.
I’m really enjoying your reorganizing video!
I started with a system which seems to have become disheveled.
NSF shelving racks with plastic bins, as my Studio is in the basement.
Feel like I can’t see my projects and forget what I’ve got.
My biggest challenge is space. I live in an apartment so have to keep fabrics in totes. Even then it seems there is fabric everywhere when I am working on multiple projects. I seem to move one pile to make room for another.
Hi, my biggest organizational issue is with my scraps…my bits and those that are parts of fat 1/4’s. How to keep up with all of it so it is usable
My biggest problem at this time is all my stuff is scattered all over. Sewing/guest room and basement. My Mom fell a year ago and had to come live with us for a while. We tore apart my sewing room in just a few hours. But it is now a year later and I still have a twin bed in my small craft room. I have several projects to finish if I could get room straightened up and organized again.
No place to store what I am currently working on- it just lays around or gets moved a kot
My sewing studio is organized chaos. You would never be able to work there, but I find inspiration from my mess.
Scraps are my biggest problem. How to sort and reorganize? Bins or baskets? What size is too small?
My biggest problem is having too many projects started & not knowing where to put them. I’ve tried organizing by what needs to be done to finish—mainly quilt it! This year I’ve been cutting up scraps after organizing pullout drawers by color. That’s made it easier to shop my stash!
Time to organize is time spent not sewing.
Time to organize takes away sewing time.
I constantly am sorting out magazines..I give so many to the guild, but then accumulate more. I love to grab a pile and browse through them from time to time, but just don’t have the shelf space to keep them all. I’ve begun tearing out the patterns I really want and putting them into a looseleaf notebook in plastic page savers.
Cheers,
maggie
Storing scraps and leftover fabric from projects is my worst problem! Hate to throw out any good size pieces!
My biggest problem is getting fabrics organized in a way that I can access them without having to search through tubs & bags. I’m seriously working on it.Somedays, I say, “should I organize or actually sit and sew.
Chers,
maggie
My stash is very large! Today, My daughter helped me sort the fabric and have all of it standing on end, so now I can see every fabric by opening the lid. I also paired up fabric for projects. It was a very productive day!
Way too much fabric and other crafts in a small room.
I need to just get organized – stop sewing and start putting away!
My main problem is the tendency to get distracted by non-current project items while pulling something for the current project. Then I start a new stack for the newest inspiration…or inspirations! Before long every available surface will be piled high with “next” projects. Currently I am doing better about this by putting away every single thing that does not go with the current project. Hopefully I’ve created a new habit.
I live in a house that’s over 100 years old, so no real closet space. I moved all my quilting fabrics, machines upstairs to a small bedroom, and now I seem to have already outgrown this room. My threads are very organized but I need to get a handle on the projects and the patterns.
My biggest problem with organizing is a thing called time. I have no time! I love reading everyone’s
responses as I know now I am not alone. Wish I didn’t have to work so much so I could have
More sewing time, time cleaning,and time organizing! I always have a lot of projects
Going on at once! Doing the mystery Christmas blocks whcich I am love making. Also love to smock
And making my granddaughter a Halloween dress. Making a quilt of the month block called enchanted
gardens with batiks, and a Save the Bee quilt. Oh my smocking group “ Yankee chapter
of saga we do a group project which is making bags for the homeless children so they don’t have to use
A trash bag to put their clothes and stuff in- then we purchase those small toiletries and put that in the
Bags. Thanks so much Pat for all you do for us really enjoying this group.
My biggest organizational problem is probably me! I have my sewing machines upstairs in a spare bedroom and my cutting and sometimes ironing area in the basement. Having them in separate areas is good exercise but not as convenient as possible.
I need more room. I need room to fold and organize my fabric. I need at least two more 16 cube cabinets for fabric. But I have no room for them. I am going to try to get boxes for under my bed so I can get them near me at least.
Too much stuff. Where do you start?
My biggest problem is that I need a sewing room. I am currently using my living room so…short on space for working and storage.
My biggest challenge is finding the room for all my fabric. I am in a bedroom the is 10 /10 and I have two 16 cube cabinets that have fabric and supplies, a computer desk with my computer, a sewing machine cabinet with my machine and a sewing table I need more room for fabric. Thank you.
My problem is Storage containers and where to put all “like” items together so I can find again. And things just seem to multiply over night!!
,my biggest problem is space. I use a small bedroom and would love to have a bigger STUDIO.
My biggest organizational issue is having too much stuff, especially non-quilting fabric that I can’t seem to part with!
Hi Pat I have recently just moved so got to organize from a clean slate so to speak. My biggest challenge is remembering what is where!! I love that you reorganize on a regular basis. Hope tp do the same as I “find” my things and find the perfect place for them…for now…