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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1,818 Responses
My biggest problem — I can’t sew fast enough!
Daughter and grandson living in my craft rooms
My sewing room is the attic of my home. It’s nice and bright but the ceiling is low and slanted so I don’t have very large walls for a design wall. I also don’t have floor space to lay out quilts or work on piecing backings.
My biggest problem is organizing my stash. But – I asked you on your facebook group how you did it and you answered!! I was quilter starstruck! You sent me to your blog post (http://blog.patsloan.com/2014/04/pat-sloan-my-scrap-busting-process.html) which I promptly printed out. I’ve not done it yet, but it’s on my list! …wait, maybe my real problem is procrastination.
My biggest challenge is a tiny home. I must get everything out to sew, then put it all away…each time.
-Jean💟
My biggest organizational problem is having a place to sore my fabric that’s easy to get to. My small sewing room doesn’t allow much space so my fabric is stored in plastic bins.
My biggest organizational problem is getting my fabric organized where I can see it and know what I have!!!
I, too, am one of the “space cadets.” My husband and I are full-time RVers. We live in 250 square feet. Maintaining a stash is a challenge for me.
I have a problem throwing away scraps. I love scrap quilts and even get scraps from the quilt shop. I think I can use everything. Even have the scraptastic book to learn new ways to use scraps. Definitely scraps.
Finding it once I put it in an “organized” NOT place.
My biggest organizational issue is lack of space. Every flat surface, including my ironing board and cutting table, is quickly stacked up with fabrics, patterns, books, etc., and then I have to move it all to do anything. Very frustrating.
I must say I’m so loving all you info and videos you do. You inspire me and so many others . I have moved up my bar to a new height .
I sure hope I can keep it up.
Thank you
How to keep little things close enough to find but not in a jumbled pile on my worktable, plus too many projects in too little space.
Organization..30% …lack of space …70%, these are my two problems.
My biggest problem with organization are tools. I put them down and they walk away from me. Trying to keep track off all my tools, especially the seam rippers and other small things, are my biggest problems.
My biggest problem is too much stuff, not enough room, not enough hours in the day
My biggest issue is too many UFO’s. I have a wallhanging in the tubs downstairs from a threadpainting class I took in 2001. Just need to learn to let some things go as they are an anchor and not helping move the boat.
I seem to love to start new projects, but struggle to finish them so have lots of UFO’s!
I have one small bedroom with a queen size bed, 2 nightstands, a chest of drawers, a cedar chest, a storage unit and sewing machine. I have too much stuff and no place to put it.
My biggest problem is keeping the small pieces sorted! Should I cut the leftover pieces into smaller pieces or leave it as is and then how to organize them.
One of my problems is that I never completely finish organizing and then things just fall apart.
My biggest organizational problem is space. I work out of a loft upstairs so my wall space is limited. I store my fabric in decorative bins and plastic containers. Thanks Pat for all of your tips and showing us around your lovely space.
I put all my scaps in a plastic show box. the really tiny water soluble I dissolve in warm water and use like best press
I feel my biggest problem is knowing the best way to sort my fabrics, and having the right containers to sort them into. I love the colors and designs but would like to have an idea has to how to see and find what I need.
My biggest problem is fabric storage.
I am in the process of moving into my quilting “studio” in the basement. It has forced me to sort all of my containers/boxes/drawers/shelves. It has been the best thing to move from my kitchen table and an old bedroom. I found so many “treasures” that had been tucked away. Pattern books, cuts of fabric, UFO’s, etc. I’m ready for a wonderful winter of working on projects down in my new space!
Space, of course! Is there ever enough? For me, it is particularly with books and magazines. I can’t part with the magazines. I find that over time my taste changes and quilts I didn’t like at one time, I might at another.
My biggest problem is I start projects then get busy and forget about the project. I then find another project/craft to start and forget I had one started. Soon I have so many projects started that I have to clean and reorganize my area and find all the projects that I have started and have to figure out if I still have all the pieces and instructions and where I put them. Once I get it cleaned then I start and hope to finish at least one of the many projects I have started.
My biggest organizational problem is that I moved my sewing room when we turned it into a nursery, and I ha e not unpacked it yet.
My sewing room is very small, with overflow into the guest room. My cutting table one one half of the kitchen island, a 4×4 area. Fabric is my downfall, I can’t sew fast enough to bring down the stacks.
My hardest organizing issue is batting. I like to buy in bulk but I often end up with odd sized scraps.
I need a better method of organizing my smaller pieces. I could also use a better way to decide what size of scrap is worth keeping.
My biggest is work space. I go to the kitchen to cut my fabric. Then to the living room to sewing. My fabric is in the guest room. Wish there was some way I could do everything in one room instead of all over the house
My biggest problem is that I’m a quilter who sew in the dinner table…so every time I’m getting to the point that I’m happy and focus with my quilting I heard….its time to dinner can you clean the table…so I have to stop, start organize the quilt pieces in a box, thread in another, ruler out out the view an in a broken safe place, sewing machine move to other furniture and packed an then cutting mat in a big cardboard box and rotary cutters in other. Done…while everyone look at me like ohhh go do it fast!
Having two sewing areas, one in a converted bedroom, the other in the basement, (cooler in the summer) lotsa room to spread out. Design walls, tables, irons boards,
How to store fabrics, completed tops, rolls of batting. ?
My biggest organizing problem is space. I just don’t have the room I would like in my craft room that doubles as a spare bedroom. Good thing no one comes to stay that often !
I live in a small apartment with no extra rooms so I made my dining room into a sewing room. We eatvatva small table in the living room. So fabric and projects, tools and everything seeing his used as decoration and is stuffed under the table cloth.
My fabrics are somewhat organized, mostly by color. Totes also have projects in them, seems when I try to organize, then I can’t find anything!
My problem is too much (but necessary, of course) sewing stuff and not enough space. Also, there seems to be more and more beautiful fabric and neat notions coming along every day.
My main problem is keeping my fabric organized.
Not enough space.
My room is too small, and I have to share my quilting space with my husband’s golf stuff.
i need to organize all my quilting tools, material, notions so they are easy to access or find…as it is right now I have everything scattered around the house in different rooms!
Keeping projects organized.
Mine would be space and organization. My things are everywhere.
I wish I had even half the space you do. It looks so lovely
My biggest problem is my sewing room along with my 12 foot table long arm graces my living room. We’re slowly replacing flooring in the bedrooms replacing the olive green carpet from the 79s with bamboo starting with my sons room as he moved out in May to get married. Moved my daughter to his room and replaced hers. What is left is ours. Once that is done my daughters old room with be guest room S well as hosting my fabric cabinets and extra dining room table that was my great great grandmas so I will be able to move my long arm closer to the wall. Will still have that and my sewing table I. The living room as who wants to sew with a view of the road where I ca. Look at pond and woods.
My biggest problem is starting too many projects and not finishing them
My biggest problem is space! Having my idea sewing room needs a lot of space. Space for fabrics, books, cutting table, ironing table sewing machines books, etc.
I’m always too busy sewing!