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
Organizing my small space is a very real problem. I am working on getting it cleaned out and organized. Right now material & patterns and…and…and has spilled over into the living room and spare bedroom. I have to get it under control!
Too much of everything !
My biggest problem??? Where do I start? Room is too small, too much fabric, book shelves over flowing, scraps in bins in my bathtub!
My biggest problem is my room is small. So space is limited. I have put my material in containers and they fit on shelf’s under my table.
Way too much fabric!
I just completed my very first quilting project – a table runner. I don’t have a designated sewing space so my biggest problem will be space and where to store my fabric. (I just bought more fabric for 2 more runners – the fun begins)!
My biggest problem is trying to organize (and stay organized) in a very small space. Recently moved from a large 4 bedroom home into an extremely small 2 bedroom retirement home. Figuring out how to put things together in my half of the spare room (it’s shared with my husband) has been really daunting.
My biggest problem is keeping it organized and labeled. I know I have something but it has gotten covered up by some other projects. It’s always fun to go through and reorganize and find a project you forgot you bought. But then it is “Stay on task, don’t start another project until I’ve finished 1. Getting better at getting tops quilted and binded.
I am organizing my sewing area. Wow! What a job! I only have half a room and solo much stuff. I have to get this figured out!
Tomorrow I will start on my room. PROMISE!
My biggest storage problem is organizing my quilt book and patterns. I seem to have so many so have pulled out instructions for ones I really like and put in binders, but now have lots of binders and they take up lots of room. Help!!! Must be a better way!
My biggest organizational problem is my fabric! I try and keep projects together in bins which helps. However, the minute I go to my stash to look for that just right piece of fabric, chaos ensues! Everything comes spilling out the moment I start searching for that fabric that I am sure must be here somewhere! Lol!
Organizing my scraps into usable sizes for me.
My biggest problem is too much stuff. I am a bit of an addict, and I love to try new things. Also, I am way better at starting projects than at finishing them.
My biggest problem is just having enough space to organize so I can see what I have on hand to pull from.
Storage for UFO’s! I love your room an I am trying to get as organized as you! I’m sooooo envyious!!
My biggest organizational problem is stuff. I have stuff everywhere and just add my quilting to it.
My biggest problem is space also, plus being a widow I have no 9ne to help rearrange anything. But I push on & consider dust a protective layer on my furniture lol
My biggest problem is that we just built a home and my sewing room is in the unfinished basement. So not enough wall space, electrical outlets and not sure how to display my fabric so that I can have access to it.
My biggest problem is counter space.
Storage – small room and lots and lots. I seem to have stacks. I need to take some time and clean and organize and instead I sew….
My biggest problem is finding the correct bins as the project progresses. It starts out as just fabric and a pattern. Once it is cut it seems to double in size. Then there is the search for a new bin. And I hate sorting the scraps into their proper places.
Having enough room to completely separate all my fabric.
My biggest issue with being organized is sharing the space with someone else who Hax their own idea on how my room should be organized.
My biggest problem is getting distracted as I go through everything. I pull everything out and find so many projects, patterns, fabrics that I forgot about and then I have to reprioritize and….squirrel!
I received the first of three packages from Ikea today. Working on trying to organize my sewing area too. I am very fortunate that I have a 24’x30’ work space in our basement. Was formerly our family room but kids are grown and gone so I took the whole space over. I also have a room down there that I call my craft room, where I store fabric and other crafts. My biggest problem is I tend to start new projects before I finish others so I can mess the room up pretty fast.
My biggest organization problem is space. Space for fabric, space for basting, space to sew,… space for everything!
My biggest problem is not having a place to keep project I’m working on nice and neat, they usually end up in a storage tub until I get back to them.
Trying to decide fabric, collections, color, subject is my biggest organization delima
My biggest problem is starting too many projects, especially BOM. Then I get nervous when life gets in the way of working on them. Then the “guilt” sets in. Then I get stalled. Now I have too much stuff in too small of space. Plastic boxes everywhere!
My biggest problem is organizing my fabrics. I have them in my bedroom computer room and sewing room. I also have scraps that have gotten away from me by outgrowing their bin. I also have several projects going at once and sometimes I cant find them in the clutter! I need Help!!
My problem is where to store all the scraps that I think I have to keep. I do dig in the scrap pile’s quite often however!
The biggest issue is keeping up with the projects. I’m pretty good at organizing them into appropriate containers it’s just that once I start a project and then move ont to another one I don’t always find a good place to put the one that is in progress.
My biggest problem is space! I have a very small bedroom turned into a sewing room. It is so small I sit at my sewing station and swivel my chair 180 degrees to iron! I have to do my cutting at my counter in the kitchen. I need a larger room!
My biggest problem is space. But of course if I got rid of much of the fabric from the last century and many of the old quilt magazines, it would free up tons of space.
My biggest problem is I just don’t know how or where to put things to get organized. I need someone to come in and organize, and then I could keep things neater!
NEED CUPBOARDS WITH DOORS TO HIDE THE MESS
I have in the last 2 weeks, put together a sewing room. Everything had been in the dining room. My main storage need is that I need shelves. i presently have material folded and stacked on the floor.
I have a very small room with little wall space. I get my fabric organized but still have problems with the sap tack if boxes. What I want is always at the bottom.
My problem seems to be trying to work in the clutter, because I am always pulling fabric out of bins, boxes, bookcases, etc, and trying to decide what I want for my applique projects, then what to do with the scraps, after, Ugh.
My biggest organizational problem is that I only use bins to put things in and it doesn’t look good. I need other ways to put my stuff.
My biggest organizational problem is all my UFO’s.
Having a very tiny space to work in is my biggest challenge. I’ve figured out how to hang a lot of things on the walls just to have a place to store them! My guest bed is my “work table” and under the bed is storage. I have taken the closet doors off so I can put a small table and my bins of fabric in there. The top of the small table is also my ironing board. I’ve learned to be creative!
I just got my sewing room back, and I’m finding it a challenge to fit everything back in that’s been in the dining room for a few years!
I would love more shelving
I love to clean my room when a project is over! Sometimes it’s just messy but I’d rather be neat!!!
My biggest problem is the lack of an actual sewing room. I use my dining room which is great unless we want to do something silly, like actually eat at the table. 😳🙄😉
I have tried to use clear plastic tubs to put each project in. I like scrappy too so I tend to pull more fabrics than I actually need so that my tubs tend to overflow. I also don’t have a great system of storing the tubs; they tend to go on the floor and end up getting buried under each other .
My biggest problem is, being a visual learner, I like to see things laid out in order to visualize the project and there’s just not enough storage space to lay everything on my tabletop. I compartmentalize by haveing see through bins/buckets.
Keepimg on track and now start something else. I Ten to start a project and then get side tracked when I see some new cool project. So I put the other one a way and then can’t remember where I put everything.