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
not enough space!!!!!
The husband refuses to buy a bigger house!
I just have too much stuff for a too little room!
I have many organizational challenges!! Too much fabric in too little space, fabric is spread out in 3 or 4 different closets!!
My biggest problem is trying to organise my notions, especially rulers. I tend to pack away in plastic boxes and forget where I have stored them.
I LOVE to be organized! But, every time I go through my sewing room and reorganize, I manage to loose something! I think I’ve found the “perfect” spot for “whatever”, never to be seen again……
I just don’t know where to start! ANd when I just dig in and start I get sidetracked by everything I handle.
My biggest problem is even though I have my fabric stored in plastic bins on comic book cards, it still seems like it’s messy with those bins stacked under my dining room table. I’d love to have a cabinet with doors that I could close and hide it all away.
Lot of stuff and so little space.
Watching your video has given me some insight as to how I can make my tiny room a little more organized and perhaps I can find my items easier, rather than taking days!
My biggest problem is lack of space to organize everything that I have. When going to a quilt class and/or retreat it takes me forever to get organized and it is to frustrating!
I have my fabric by colors and some themes in bins. But when I need to look at it for a fabric I have to take everything out. Need to think some more on organizing.
Too much “stuff”!
Goofed this entry up. Sorry Pat
My biggest problem is tying or wanting tot y everything i see. I start, gather fabric and even cut them out, then see something else and the first omne is tucked away. I do not finish half of what I start.
You have inspired me to do more sorting . I have too many ufo’s in hiding.
My plan is to do some sorting daily and finish a ufo every month.
Thanks for inspiring!
How to prioritize projects
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My biggest problem is too little space. My sewing room has turned into the catchall room. If there is not room somewhere else it ends up in my sewing room. Now I need to have that room to use as my granddaughter’s bedroom. I have purchased a shed that I am finishing to have for my “sewing shed”. I have electricity in it and my dad is helping me to insulate and sheetrock it. I am very anxious to get it finished so I can move in and get all my quilting organized. At the moment all my current projects are scattered throughout my dining room and into my living room.
I store my fat quarters by colour in small fabric coloured bins. My problem is all the little scraps which I don’t want to part with, but I don’t have a great system to sort them.
Right now my organizational problem is half of my “stuff” is upstairs after moving the sewing machine to the main floor after back surgery and the other half is still in the basement. No one location is large enough anymore.
I sew in my bedroom. I’ve kind of taken it over lol. I would say storage is my big issue. I have currently spilled into the dining room. Our home started out as a small cabin in the 1920s so all the rooms are on 1 floor. I do have a huge attic and basement.
My biggest problem is I sew in my dinning room, by choice, have fabric up stairs and other sewing stuff including long arm in basement . Up and down all day long looking for something.
I get distracted by all the cool stuff I find
i went from one room to two rooms in the current house..all the fabric stored in cube/boxes in the Long arm room. The sewing room has a cutting table, an embroidery machine setup and a sewing and serger on another table. Another cube /boxes to hold projects and fabric/notions. BUT the table still remains cluttered and theres now piles of boxes under the table. The bookshelves the table is mounted to are over flowing as well. I work 40 hours a day and never get to complete projects before a new deadline comes in and another project gets started….
My biggest organizational issue is. Or having a designated sewing space!!! I use my kitchen table and all of my projects, machine, tools all get put into totes and go back in my closet when I’m in a lull or we need to use the kitchen table.
I need a better way to sort scraps efficiently!
My biggest problem is space. Too many crafts in separate rooms.
Keeping things in their designated places is a chore, but then again you have to have that place to begin with! It’s always a work in progress for me to be organized.
Biggest problem at this time is my sewing space is under construction and I have no place to put anything plus I’m currently living out of two houses while trying to move.
My biggest problem is similar to yours. My working room is fairly small so I have overflow in other rooms along with junk or stuff that I’m currently working on getting rid of so that my overflow stuff for quilting, can be organized. Hopefully it will be better soon! Thanks for the giveawaysg
My organization problem is that it easy to put it off, I know that more should be done. My sister recently bought comic book flat thingies. Do these work?
My problem is that I have so much material and so many tools and so many UFOs that it has taken over my house!
I need to organize and try to get everything in one area! I walk myself to death going from the sewing machine in one room back to the ironing board in the other where the cutting table is. I tried making my self a little area beside my sewing machine with a small pressing mat and travel iron but it is just not working for me. I do like to stand up as much as possible due to having to sit at a desk all day.
I have way too much stuff. The room is big, but what I have is bigger. What do I do? I certainly don’t want to get rid of anything!
I have everything all over my basement, mostly the unfinished area. My sewing area is supposed to be contained to the laundry room(According to the one who thinks he’s the boss of me). He sort of surprised me by installing kitchen cabinets around the wall beside the washer and drier and built what he thought was a walk-in closet, along with a rolling cutting table.(Best part of all) There are two areas with no cabinet below. One houses my 1977 Singer Stylist and cabinet which he put on wheels so it could roll in and out. In 2010 he bought be a Singer Futura machine (Bertha) which lives in the other open area in the bag. Since my computer crashed, I have not been able to embroider on her. In 2013, I purchased a Phaff Creative(No name yet) I use her for most projects. She’s in the room next to the laundry room which is also in the unfinished part of the basement. I carry most project out to the pool table in the finished area. I usually get tired and leave them there! I’ve tried getting organized but I don’t think it is possible!! I am going to watch and re-watch your videos until I master this process!!
My biggest challenge is organizing EVERYTHING, mostly because my stash is out of control. I need to purge and regroup.
My biggest obstacle is not enough space to store fabric. I need to clear out the clutter and I dread getting started.
I just have too much stuff and not enough time. I am working on letting go of craft projects and supplies that no longer interest me.
I recently moved, so my biggest challenge is combining my separate craft room and bedroom in one very large bedroom. There is room for everything, but will it be accessible?? For now I am focusing on productivity so I can finish up some UFO’s.
Mijn grootste probleem is toch wel de ruimte om mijn quiltstoffen overzichtelijk op te bergen. Een groot probleem wat daarmee annex is is tijd!!
Actually getting started, then getting finished. The in betweens are easy!
One of my problems is having such beautiful fabrics that I don’t want to cut them up. They feel like works of art to me, and I love them so much that they don’t get used.
My small stash of fabric has just been thrown into several totes, box and closet, no organization at all. Not sure what I have.
I need more space so I can organize my containers and get to them all. I have things in several places
Not enough storage space!
My biggest problem is space. I quilt at my dining room table which also triples as a home school work space and where my family eats. Meaning my time is also limited. But that’s how it goes and I have accepted this fact.
My problem is I get it out and then don’t put it away. I place it on the closest empty surface. UGH!
My biggest problem is,also, space. I did have set up in the basement but due to some health issues of my husband, I decided to move upstairs to our spare bedroom. Unfortunately, my long are quilter will not fit. Also, I have about 12 sewing machines(why you ask, I don’t know). So after moving my fabrics, overlock, 2 embroidery machines, cutting table, and favorite machine, there is little room left. I think I actually need a bigger house, lol.
Currently I am working on finishing up a baby quilt for a new arrival due in November and also working on some bandana’s for a few of my friends dogs. Also have cut a new lap blanket in blacks and yellows that I will begin before the end of the week. So many things this time of the year that I see and want to do all at once.