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 how to store fabric and keep it organized. I am always buying fabrics that catch my eye, usually with some project in mind, but then I forget what I was going to use it for, then it just gets lumped in with everything else in a box or a bag, only to be rediscovered months later! Maybe creativity and organization can’t live in the same brain. LOL! 🙂
Too much stuff, too small room, too little time!!
Makes decisions is the WORSE for me. Where do I putt “stuff” so I can find it again. Arrghhh!
Keeping my scraps organized is the hardest thing. I have just bought a 3 drawer container to help me organize. Hope it works, cross your fingers!
My biggest problem is is don’t have enough room. We moved from a large 1800 sq foot home in Oklahoma to a 1031 sq foot apartment in Texas. My sewing room is now shared with hubby’s computer, his hobby and 3 grandsons play/sleeping area! And I have a SABLE stash, lol. Upside is we are very near our three grandsons 8 1/2. I hope I’m picked for this drawing, I need to add more to my room. ( of course, the overflow is in my bedroom and closet) so I’ll find room. 🤣
My problem is scraps. How to sort them and keep them sorted.
My biggest organizational problem is when my husband cleans out my sewing room. He boxes stuff up and I have to go through everything to find the project I want to work on.
Mine biggest problem is all those pretty fabrics CSU and awesome BOM and see alongs that I’m not sure what to do or where to start. Also storin my scraps of fabrics
Finally got the scrap system working for fabric pieces, but projects (too many projects, so little time) are multiplying like rabbits! My projects get finished faster in my mind than in my reality!!! I think I need to do a clean out – thanks for the inspiration!
Biggest problem is culling our what is really “excess”. I am discovering I buy things for projects that have no plan and then it’s hard to part with the fabric. So it collects. Storage and organization of notions and tools is difficult – once regrouped or stored its hard to relocate. Oops that’s more than one problem.
Deciding what goes and what stays. Love it all!
My biggest problem with organization is too much stuff in too small a space. I try to go through and donate my least favorite fabric once a year, but it is hard to part with some. I know it is going to a good place, but it’s like giving away a part of me.
I am horrible at organizing my fabric scraps. I think I will organize by colors, then I think we’ll i need to organize by size though and before I know it I have way too many bins. For instance, I know I won’t remember that fat quarters are in with larger pieces or smaller pieces so I try to keep them separate… but I am short on space too and I need the space on the shelves for yardage. I need someone to come in an organize me. I actually really do, it wears me out. I have lupus and it can take me two weeks to do simple closet organizing just because I get exhausted easily. Ugh. I’m a mess 😆. So I guess I have MORE than one problem, lol. Also, I have too many “things”. I loooove the notions. (It’s an addiction)
My biggest problem is the destashing. I feel like it’s such a waste if I get rid of anything, I always think I may use it some day. I’m trying to get myself ready for a major clean up in my small sewing room so I hope I can do talk myself through getting rid of some “stuff”.
I have too much stuff. I have so much that I can’t get it organized. I am totally overwhelmed.
I don’t have good storage space for fabric (just Rubbermaid bins!) and I also don’t have a space to set up my sewing machine and leave it out – just the kitchen table, which isn’t ideal!
I buy fabric for a project and then can’t remember what it was for. Also can’t find a good storage system for my quilting rulers.
My biggest problem is space. Limited income so try to make good use of what I gave.
I just don’t have a dedicated space for my quilting – currently I take over the entire dining room with overflow into the office! Someday I dream of a dedicated space to call my own – to be able to shut the door and not have to re-home everything for Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas!!! Challenging, to say the least, lol!!
My problem is organizing my scraps. I make myself not purchase fabric until I have a purpose for it. This helps on storage.
My biggest challenge is how to deal with my scraps and keeping more than one project organized when I am working on more than one at a time.
Organizing my collection of fabric is my problem area. I’m sure others have the same problem with much larger collections.
My biggest problem is not wanting to cut up my fabric. I have some fabric that I just love and I don’t want to cut it up! What’s a girl to do? I have much fabric!
My biggest organizational problem at this time is that I had to move out of my sewing room when I had my son, and I have not had a chance to reorganize everything!
My biggest organizing problem is getting sidetracked. I will pull out a beautiful fabric and start dreaming of what it could become. I start pulling out fabrics to build a quilt without any idea what pattern to use.
My problem is that I have too many ideas. I start it as soon as I get the idea, then jump to the previous project so as not to lag behind. I now have 12 Christmas presents going and I’m hoping to finish them by end of October. Organizing these as I go along is a challenge for me. I have sticky notes everywhere😁
My biggest problem, too much fabric, too little space. I moved and my new sewing room is only 2/3 the size of my old one. I want my old room back!
My biggest rotational problem is the variations of my projects and items I have found at thrift shop and yard sales over many years, ( “I will find a use for this one day items) but I can’t part with them. I need some small wooden chests of drawers instead of the rolling ones. I can’t put heavy things in top of the plastic ones.
My biggest problem is that I start too many projects at once and then they don’t get finished. I love to piece but don’t like to quilt!
My biggest problem is having enough space after I sort everything to put it back away. I think my sewing room is just to small – LOL – but, I would love to add another project!!
My biggest challenge is we just moved! I finally have my own dedicated space in a beautifully finished basement. But we moved 2x in 2 years so much of it have been in boxes and I just don’t know where to begin to try organizing and I end up going down a rabbit hole. I used to have a 5×7 closet as a workspace, so it’s hard to make sense of SO much space.
Space is definitely my downfall with organization. Not to mention I buy too much! Ha ha! I’m about to lose what I just gained as a sewing room, so I’m going to have an even bigger space problem!
My biggest problem is space, I keep saying you can’t fit an elephant in a shoebox, but darned if I don’t keep trying. Second is arranging everting to fit, with apartment living, I can’t re arrange walls or add an addition. Project boxes are how I cope with keeping things together until the project is done.
My quilt room issue is finding places for all projects. The othe issues is finding places for all the little goodies that helps make projects.
My biggest problem is we are trying to sell our house, so my quilting room has to stay sort of organized and neat. However, after I straightened it all up, and put things away, i discovered I can’t find anything! So I have to start over….keeping it neat as I go.
My biggest organizational problem is wanting do do everything and keep it all in a small space (which has now incorporated the guest bedroom)!
My biggest problem is not putting everything away. I just keep working on my current project. I don’t want to take time away from the project to organize!
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My biggest issue is having too many projects started. I’m usually working on at least 3 different quilting projects,but I also do alterations and other sewing projects that come and go with deadlines.
I dont have enough wall space. I have one spot for about a full size quilt to hang a working wall.
My biggest problem is space. My sewing room is small. I did a huge reorganization in June and that has helped. I donated lots of craft supplies and that gave me a little room for my fabric.
I can’t seem to finish one thing before someone needs me to work on something else. If I could just work on 3 things at a time and get something finished I think I would be more organized!
I have converted my sons bedroom to my sewing room so I’m loving your organizational videos and posts. My biggest problem is all the stuff that’s not a project or specific anything. The extra “just in case items” like lap table that folds to use while sewing in chair, big bag of textiles that are odd pieces but could come in handy, batting that takes up a lot of space , etc. Right now I have my closet sorta organized but need better shelving to be able to store all these odd things I just mentioned.
First of all, I love Love your sewing room. Definitely matches your personality. Normally I am a very organized person in all the other rooms of our home. But my sewing room is a completely different story. I tend to buy more fabric then I will ever use and then not knowing where or how to store it all. And I’m pretty new to quilting. I keep moving things around on shelves according to color and size of material. So I guess organizing my fabric is my biggest problem . But my husband would say buying too much fabric is my biggest problem, ha ha
My biggest organizational challenge is SPACE!! Not enough room to keep fabric sorted properly and always end up with a bigger mess when trying to find certain fabric.
Hi Pat!
I’ve recently taken over one of our extra bedrooms as an office/studio. So I’m trying to be organized having each project in a bin. I don’t have a good solution for rulers & other tools. Also I struggle with how to keep matching thread & bobbins together. When I think I have it all together, we move into our RV for the winter & I start again!! Thanks for sharing ideas!!
My biggest organizational problem is having too many projects in progress!
I could say ”all of the above” but the worse thing is, in a small space, trying to keep enough ‘big’ space to cut large pieces of fabric, square up quilts etc. The organised boxes and bags tend to take over.
My biggest organizational problem is that I am new to quilting and I don’t know what to group together yet! I’m not sure what my strategy will be in my new space.
If you combine many other comments already here, you might get close to my problems. Too much stuff, too little room. Too many half done projects, too easy to get distracted to fall in love with the next thing. Then there is the whole guilt element–I don’t deserve to sew unless I clean, but I don’t want to clean, so I end up doing nothing. Arrgh.