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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My biggest problem is that I have the floor space, but my husband has the wall space for his trophies….so it limits my shelving options. The room is 20 x 25, but I also have exercise equipment in there, as well as air hockey, camping equipment, an antique refrigerator (with the compressor on top), my large stock pots and canning gear, and my gift wrap supplies. And three sewing machines…my old Elna for the grandkids to use, and my Destiny and Crescendo. I have an antique pool table with vinyl-covered plywood over the top…makes a great workspace! And the air hockey table often gets covered with works in progress, but easy to remove when a game is requested. It needs so serious decluttering and organization, but who has time when there are quilts to be worked on?!
My problem is that I use my dining room as a sewing room! All is well until people come to my cottage for a meal. It is rather like a jigsaw trying to find spaces in my pretty little shabby chic cupboard, each time means a complete reshuffle. I hope to find another piece to upcycle before I offer to feed anyone.
My biggest organization problem is that I have one small bedroom. I love my space, but the closet is stacked, the drawers are packed. I try to organize by project. However, I don’t have a good place for the small totes and they are thrown everywhere. I recently retired so I am quilting much more and I am stacking up more and more projects.
My biggest organizational issue is storing the scraps so that I can use them at some point, rather than tossing into one bin, never to look in again, because there is no rhyme or reason to it.
I get distracted by what I find as I am sorting.
I want to do everything, so I buy everything for the project, then set it aside while I finish my current project….in the meantime I find another new project & get that & forget about all the old ones & the piling up begins. I’ll have to live to be 100 to finish all I have. I guess I am a fabricaholic!! LOL!!!
Ugh! My issue is my small room! But also my bins tucked away with UFOs … tucked away where its difficult to get to. And so they are never worked on. Help!
my biggest problem is keeping track of the unfinished projects which accumulate when start a new project before I have finished to old one.
I think my biggest organization problem is space. I don’t feel like I have any space. When I want to quilt and sew I have to use the dining room table and kitchen counters. I unpack and pack up projects and fabrics so often and sometimes in a hurry if I’m expecting company or want to make a big meal and actually eat on the dinning room table, I just toss things together and put them away. I spend an hour or two organizing again the next time I bring it all out. I feel like I spend more time organizing what I have then sewing time sometimes haha. I have a closet to store everything, it’s filled but it’s organized… for now :p
My biggest problem is not having enough space and not organizing the space I do have to the best.
My biggest problem is when I finish a project I have several scraps left over. I tend to leave them till I have a big pile. I then deal with a mess.
Scraps! I want to keep them for future projects but don’t have a system for organizing them.
My biggest problem is there is no room in my small area for an ironing table. I have to keep running up and down stairs
My projects are neatly stored together in clear tubs but my biggest organization problem is where to find the particular notion or ruler that I just know I own! I have a ruler rack but the smaller rulers seems to end up in a drawer or handy little storage bag somewhere, It usually turns up, just not at the exact moment when I need it.
My big problem is also space. We moved,I went from a large basement to a tiny bedroom. With more containers in another bedroom. My other issue is my cat. She likes to “help” me. If I keep her out, she puts her paws under the door,rattles it and keeps meowing.
My dilemma is that I don’t have enough room. I’m working out of a 3rd bedroom and continually have to put things away and take things out that I want to work on. I also have to go to my dining room table to cut and have to lay things out on the floor or on a bed in order to see my designs. I hope someday to have a bigger space but at the same time feel blessed just to be able to do what I love. I will make it work in order to continue to quilt.
My biggest organizational problem is my UFOs! So many interesting techniques and patterns to try and so little time.
My biggest organizational problem is where to store my UFOs so I don’t misplace them or forget them. My goal this year was to finish as many UFOs as possible but that didn’t work out so well. LOL. I will try again next year!
My biggest organization issue is… I am new to quilting and am working on work flow issues…trying to figure out what works best. I am attempting to stay on top of fabric organization but so far thats pretty easy since I am new.
After we bought a new home with a smaller sewing studio, I struggled to organize a workable area. I’ve been “building up” by using wall space for hanging storage, donating things I don’t absolutely love, and looking for stylish solutions. It’s always a work in progress.
You know the saying ” I buy faster than I sew” That definitely applies, along with little to no actual sewing space. I’ve been thinking about how to overcome that problem….
My biggest problem is counter space.
Sharing my space as a guest room. Having to put everything away before guests come
Definitely space. I organize when the supplies start taking over.
My biggest issue is organizing too much into a very small space. If I sewed faster and quilt buying fabric, in my mind, things would get better. Yeh, right!
My biggest problem is time-I don’t carve out enough time for the organization part. I am trying to work in small bits of organization now, but it is taking a long time, and I feel like I am drowning in my own fabric! I also want to quilt, and I do that and ignore the organization imp on my shoulder.
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My biggest problem is fitting everything in a small space and finding where I put everything.
My organization problem is space and I keep buying more fabric! I am trying to purge some of the stuff I have had for a while by using it for backing and practice fabric
My biggest problem is not having enough room….I’m too organized and have no room to put the containers. They are in closets,pantry,front porch( it’s covered)……
My problem is that I share space with my 10 year old grandson and a rabbit. It’s funny that this topic should pop up today. Just this morning I was planning on rearranging my space by moving my cutting table closer to my machine.
My biggest problem is I tend not to put
things back where they belong. Book and patterns will lay around for weeks
before being put back on shelf. I have way to much stuff.
My biggest problem is sorting works in progress and keeping them fresh in my mind to finish.
My problem is deciding HOW to organize. I buy fabric with no real idea of what I’ll do with it….usually! I find I want to keep like fabric together, but then I remember it and want to use it for something and that messes up my “system”!
Space. I have fabric bought for a project stored in scrap paper plastic boxes but those boxes are beginning to add up. Time. To clean out a small bedroom to become a sewing room but what do I do with those items & furniture? Close my eyes to new ideas & projects. Yea, right, like that’s going to happen. Time again, to sew. Maybe now that the garden is finishing & cooler temps are promised.
I have taken over my son’s ping pong table along with my husbands man cave…ha! Good thing they love me!? However, we’re remodeling our family room, living room and kitchen/dining spaces so most of my treasured material is boxed up. My sewing machine is in my bedroom where I can keep an eye on it! Ha!
FABRIC SCRAPS ARE A HUGE PROBLEM. CAN’T SEEM TO TOSS ANY OF THEM!
I tend to jump from the frying pan into the fire! Finishing a project, I’m excited to go on to the next and chunk the leftovers and instructions, etc., into whatever space is available. Definitely makes a mess in no time.
Best way to organize left over fabric from finished projects – by color, season, theme or line.
My biggest problem is I don’t want to take time to organize. I want to sew. I know where things are in my room.
More space for storage bins to display fabric would be helpful.Thank you for the chance to win.
My biggest organizational problem is not enough time! I keep one of my Grand Daughters 3 days a week, so that doesn’t leave a lot of time to organize. I have the most trouble with my fabric. I don’t have a huge stash, but have it on 2 5 shelf bookcases where I can see what I have, the problem is when I start pulling for a project, the excess never seems to end back up where I got it from!
Biggest problem I have is storage of my fabric for easy viewing of what I have on hand. Right now I have it all my layer cakes, charm packs and fat quarters jammed on a 3 shelf bookcase and then my yardage on the bottom shelving of my sewing table. Would love to get shelving so I can put it all in one place.
My biggest problem is having usable space that is not too damp in my basement. My second challenge is having too many interests! I want to try it all!
My biggest problem is I can’t decide how to sort my fabric. So I have some by colors and some by themes and or seasons. So this makes me have sorted fabrics everywhere. Should I do all by color and have everything together? Sometimes when I go to pull fabrics I’m looking in three different places.
My biggest problem is having enough space. I need to move the bunk beds out of my sewing room.
My biggest is challenge is having too many UFO’s and not knowing how to organize them in any order. Also too much fabric that isn’t put away in an orderly fashion.
I also keep several projects going at once and I can never find that one piece or tool I need to work on it. I have tried various methods to organize them but nothing seems to work
My biggest problem is that I’m working in two separate spaces. Because of hip problems I’m not always able to walk the stairs to our lower level where most of my sewing supplies and several machines are located. I’ve moved one of my sewing machines up to the master bedroom. Every time I sit down to sew something, I end up not having everything I need at hand. Need to figure out what and how to store some basic sewing supplies in the bedroom.
No space, I have to sew in the kitchen, and every morning I move everything to the bedroom and at night move it back to the kitchen.