Wow, I'm surprised to see a major RUclipsr make do with such a "tiny" setup (simple iron station, small sewing and cutting table and not an insane amount of stashed fabric). It's very relatable! Yay ❤
Yeah! Same observation! Im a member of a few Sewing groups on Facebook and some Sewing rooms I see there are huge and just SO MUCH FABRIC. Makes me feel small as a hobby sewist lol. I'm really encouraged seeing this simple setup. Like she puts out such quality and diverse work in such a simple space. Love April!
Agree! In the end, a stash is just dead stock if it isn't used. It holds little value and is a waste of production, space and money. Be proud of your small stash 😍
I feel the same ... April has so much talent and of all the DIY/Fashion up-cyclers I watch, she is the nearest n dearest to my heart ... She was the first I ever watched & that was a # of years ago ... Just Love her to pieces ❣
I love how accessible she makes sewing seem. That's why I like to watch her and Micarah Tewers. They prove that you don't need too many supplies to get started
I JUST TOOK THE QUIZ AND I TOO, HAVE JOINED THE BUTTERFLY CLUB! AND I JUST BROUGHT SOME STORAGE BINS FOR MY NEW STASH OF FABRIC SWATCHES WHICH GAVE ME THE ENTUSIASUM TO REDO MY SEWING SPACE. WHICH IS ALSO MY OFFICE, AND DEN. AND CRAFTROOM. AND I LIVE IN A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT! OH THE INSANITY OF IT ALL!! LOL!!!!
I love so many things about your video! 1. The stop motion photography keeps up the pace and the interest as you reorganize 2. Putting a colorful design (or even just a solid pink color!) behind Elfa is the best part of having that stuff for people who love color! 3. The pants hanger trick 4. Realizing suddenly that I can repurpose the Elfa drawers in one of my rolling carts into my wall system without spending any more than I need to for the tracks! 5. witnessing a clutter bug transformation! I hope you have a magnet on a stick now to prevent injuries 😁. If your sewing book collection grows (especially paperbacks) you can put some of it in the closet shelf with sturdy bookends. You can extend your ELFA top rail and add clothes bars for fabrics and projects in process: they sell special hooks for purses/totes, too - The hook lets you hang your bags in a way that lets you put more bags on the rod, and of course to see and grab them quickly. Nice if you make or use homemade shopping bags. The Container Store has periodic sales (although usually not a full 50% off.) They used to always do 30% in January-mid February, 20% around September,, and one year they even offered a gift card that let you get double the value back in the coming year. So paying attention to sales is a smart move 🤓. The test of a good system is whether it still looks great after a year. How is it going?
You could use a sturdy curtain rod for hanging up the paper on the wall! Much cheaper, just get the plastic screws (drywall anchors) so it can hold the weight ☺️
I thought you were going to say the “Live Your Dream” art represents your work on RUclips so when you were just like “it matches... the table” I burst out laughing 😂
I can never understand how people deal with having carpet in their sewing space! How do you get all the fabric fluff, strands of thread and pins cleaned? I could never 😅 but i love how this room turned out!!
I love it! It’s so cute but also so functional-it doesn’t feel like it’s just purely aesthetic, totally can see how it would make your life so much easier! I’m inspired!!
Soo cute!! I love that you waited and got the deal on the display setup, it was meant for you! I'm a butterfly as well. I had no idea there were categories for people who like to have things a specific way in their space. If I don't see what I have on display I forget all about it so I do love the open shelving but get annoyed sometimes if the open space isnt organized. Gunna get clear containers and organize my space more.
I'm the same way (apparently it can be an adhd thing) I gotta be able to see things in my fridge, my cupboards, my closet, etc or I forget they exist If I can't do clear containers, labels help, and I put them on the sides instead of the tops in case things get stacked on top
I’m the same way. I can’t bare when my stuff in display isn’t organised but I’ll gladly shove things in hidden drawers. 😅 I’m currently tidying my setup because I wanted a new thing or two + I’m making way for some vintage patterns and possibly a new mannequin because I have a vintage one but she’s not so good, rusty, broken and really needs her fabric recovering but I don’t think that’s something I can do and I don’t want to ruin her vintage look. I want to get one of those stands that make it possible to see what threads I have because with the old storage I have, I have to shovel my hand around in my thread basket and always get splinters. It’s old and beautiful but really not something I can deal with. 😓
OMG.....loving the container store system. You created a unit that was nice and compact.....lots of drawer space......and each drawer holds soooooo many supplies...... Now.....let’s talk about the wall and desk.........love,love,loved them both. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰
This is so gorgeous and I live for the pastel aesthetic. This is a big inspiration for my huge sewing studio that my mom and I are building for me so I could have enough room for making my large gowns and a huge walk in closet for my personal gowns and costumes since Im a cosplayer and designer.
My grandmother worked in a sewing factory, and was a wonderful seamstress and her best piece of advice was to always keep you hand sewing needles threaded. That way if you dropped them they were easier to find and if you stepped on one it would be easier to remove (which I did and it went in my foot all except half the eye and thread, which I wrapped around my finger and yanked it out). If you have a rug or carpeting, often pins and needles will land in an upright position.
@@ahhh4117 That's a good idea! I have one of those reaching tools for when things fall off the back of my sewing table, and it has a magnet on the end. Live and learn. LOL
@@ahhh4117 I was just about to comment something similar...we had a magnetic strip attached to the underside of the vacuum cleaner head... worked a treat... ;))
Oof, I'm just remembering when my mom would sew often on the sofa. One day, I wanted to look out the window and I felt something on my shin. Turns out, a sewing needle was halfway in my leg, and I was 8 😂😅 @yeet my waffles, that's such a smart idea!
I’m a butterfly, too. I enjoy organizing, so it’s like shopping in a store when I see everything laid out before me. Kitchen organization is even more fun.
HUSBAND NAME DROP! Feels we came from so far. When you casually mentioned that your husband did the tripod thing, I thought wow she is for sure getting comfy. "My husband did this and that...". How cute.
If or rather when you get more fabric, the old hangers can still be put to good use by using the tab of a soda can and linking a few of the hangers together that way.
I really love your craft room, that purchase was a real deal. Is is airy and not overcrowded, the wall painted in 2 tones 👍👍 I wouldn't add anymore things or craft notions. This way you can see easily what you have to carry out your crafts. 😘😘🇪🇸
i love it when i get a bunch of new organizing things or even just organize some part of my house in a new way and i feel like i want to tell everyone about it because i'm so excited, and watching this video brought me back to that excited place!! i can tell you're super happy with your new setup and it just feels good to talk about it, especially when you feel proud of yourself for coming up with it. this was quite fun to watch and i hope your setup stays organized!
This is so great! ♥️ just curious, what do you do with your scrap fabrics? And one suggestion for the space your ironing board, if you don’t go the route of getting a neon sign (Which would be super cool), you can put a floating or regular shelf which you can use for your book or just cute decor pieces!
You could make a paper hanger with two wooden curtain brackets and a broom handle.Dollar tree sells a broom and mop system with a shared handle.. you could hang the. brackets, put the handle through the center of your paper roll and lay it across the brackets. You could also use PVC pipe instead of a. Broom handle.
Well done, April! With the spare spaces you have "left", you don't need to fill them, you can just leave them as is. Learn to live with negative spaces 😊
Stick the extra bins in the zipper drawer for now, so you don’t have to move them out of the way every time you want to access a user manual. Get a rug gripper pad to prevent the rug from shifting. It’s like a foam rubber mesh that you can cut to size, if it’s not already in the size you want. Similar to some shelf grips that you may have seen.
Love this April! As a newbie sewist,it's encouraging to see how simple your setup is. You can put out so much quality and diverse works in your humble space. I must say I've been a fan for years, and you're one of the RUclipsrs who really encouraged me to get into sewing. Now I've been sewing for a few months and I'm loving it! Thank you so much for all your work! I'm looking forward to all the fun projects you'll create in your new cute space! Much love from the Philippines!
Great video and thanks for the clutterbug link. I'm a bee. :) now I can look at organization systems that will actually help me stay organized but still be functional. Your sewing room looks great, very pretty and functional at the same time.
Tip for people who like displaying newspapers, magazines, or soft cover books, plastic canvas. This is my medium and I can't you tell how many Pinterest things I see with covers, inserts and reinforcements for things like this. So either cut a nearly full length section to slide into your magazine to stand it up or create a small "shadowbox" for magazines and newspapers by making a very shallow drawer to help reinforce the spine's strength to the other side of the cover.
I switched over to the circle bobbin organizers and love them. They keep the thread secure, it's visual and easy to organize by color. Great for butterflies and bees (and everyone else).
Coolirpa!!! Thank you so much for sharing the organization quiz. What started as an "ideas for my future sewing room" turned into practical ways I can organize myself as a fellow "butterfly" organizer, and I'm finally motivated to declutter and create better organization systems for my house and my sewing room. Thank you!!!
Im a butterfly too. I use clear plastic shoe hanger things with the pockets to organize and i hang them on the door. But i need that fabric hanging idea as my fabric is in plastic totes and hard to access
I’m really over here trying to figure out how to create a diy version of that craft storage space. I live in a two bedroom house and my kids have the second room. I have a perfect space to transform in my living room!
I am a butterfly! it says this: You’re A Butterfly! Love visual abundance and organizational simplicity. You are a really visual person and for you, it’s out-of-sight, out-of-mind. You need visual, but fast and easy systems, like clear or wire bins and baskets and lots of hooks
This is so cute! I've never considered this before, but I'm probably a butterfly too; my clothes just tend to sit in folded and sorted piles on my bed until i wear them again, or I'll wear the stuff hanging up in my closet, but i never go to my dresser drawers when i get dressed?? Same with my kitchen stuff... Definitely something to think about...
This is amazing. From a fellow butterfly I would suggest keeping all your fabric in the closet. There's room on the shelf for the bulkier fabric. You might want to try hanging shoe organizers for your scrap fabric.
What a wonderful room. I love the wall caddie with the drawers. So great that you got a deal on it... and the pants hangars for fabric is genius. Enjoy your studio. You gave me lots of great ideas.
WOW! Such a professional & organized looking studio now. It should help cut down on the time it takes to make a project, since you won't have to search for items. Great make over guys!👍👍
I just got my first sweing machine on sunday and looking forward to make more sewing projects. I got toyato fs18 jeans .. its wonderful and second hand machine ..
April, for your pattern-making paper wouldn't the roll fit on one of the table legs or, maybe you could rig a stand up with a broomstick anchored in a pail or box of some kind? OR, hang the roll on a shower rod that you could anchor in your closet doorway or whereever (those shower rods are adjustable length and often not necessary to have to nail or screw - mine has rubber end-caps). You've got a lot of really good reference books that a bookcase (in white?) could stash and display conveniently, and looks likey you'd have room against a wall or in a corner, not blocking your light or work space. I bought a bookcase recently (5 shelves, in black!) at Target for about $40. Because you Mrs. "Butterfly" will absolutely utilize all storage drawers, shelves, hangers, etc.! And you do have some great flexibility with the storage you chose and you did brighten everything up with your pink wall graphics, great job! Wish I had a sewing room, dining table looks like your "prior" sewing area!! Enjoy, you are a wonderful design seamstress.
Love your studio, it's small, but so well organised. The trick with pant hangers is pure genius! Hope you have many happy creative moments in your new sewing space.
Here's a little hack idea for your pattern paper: You can get an IKEA "Racka" Curtain rod and mount it under your desk or on the wall! I've seen lots of people do this for rolls of paper.
That's totally awesome! Thank you so much for sharing AND for the link to the test. I am a Butterfly as well as it turns out and I'm thinking that's a huge reason my decluttering didn't work so well. It wasn't/isn't the way that works best for me. thank you so much.
Great job on the organizing and transformation of your sewing space! Organization projects always take a lot of time and effort but the result is always worth it. And no one system works for everyone, but sharing is meant to spread inspiration and ideas so everyone can find and make their own! Some suggestions based on the comments you made in your video: for your heavier or larger pieces of fabric, you can get some blanket hangers as those are generally heavier duty and match your pants hanger system; depending on how much fabric you actually have, you could also double the closet hanging space by getting a hanging closet rod (it's basically an additional closet rod you hang from your existing one) you can use to section off the fabrics on pants hangers from the blanket hangers (if you choose to go that route). For your pattern paper, a stand should be really easy to throw together: all you really need is a heavy flat base and a large dowel or pole for the middle, but this would also make it a little more difficult to move (unless your base has wheels) - food for thought! And lastly for your overhead camera setup - you mentioned that the tripods take up a lot of room (assuming you mean the tripod base takes up a lot of floor space) so might I suggest you replace it with a garment rack? The structure is almost identical and depending on the base, it could take up less room and also be easily movable.
Omyyy i need that organizer shelf too but i don’t see any store selling those in my country 😭😭 and the fashions books i that want too 😭😭♥️♥️ and i still can’t believe coolirpa is married now. I’ve been watching her diys way long ago they are still bf/gf ♥️♥️
Your sewing room is awesome! Love the pink wall. Pink is my favourite colour. Thank you for sharing about being a butterfly. I just learned from you that I am too. This will be so helpful when I start organizing. Love your videos!
Coming from someone who's always looking for better ways to organize all her craft/sewing supplies, I looove how the room turned out!! Also makes me excited to go clean it all up and try new storage methods myself 😁
Wow, I'm trying to organize all my stuff. I wish I had a room for my crafting but I don' so I have to use a wall space in my apartment. The fashion books are a great reference for doll clothes making. That wall organization from the container store is phenomenal. I wish I could have something like that. That's for sharing all this great information.
This is just a suggestion but if in the future you needed more space ( because sewing means you need a stash of a lot of different things) you could consider moving the zippers in next to the elastics and velcro... especially if you had another one of those dividers that you bought separately. I hope this helps!! I really enjoy your videos!
Your sewing room looks wonderful. I've done the clutterbug test and I'm a bee. I really like her system for organising. Wonderful that you got the storage system half price - such a great saving for you.
Hi, I live with butterflies. I'm more of the bee. I love your idea of pant hangers for the fabric. As per your flimsy paperback, go to Dollar Tree and get one of those photo frame easels. Thank you for sharing
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I found April when she'd only just started her channel, the 1st video I found was one where she made a pair of harem pants out of regular sweat pants.. Now I've finally started mine after yeeaaarrs of thinking about starting. This video has come in handy! ^_^
Sorry to leave a late comment, but I have a budget friendly hack for paper rolls! Go to any home hardware store, pick up a dowel the length you need, if you have some leather/leather like fabric, you can cut two strips and make loops. I just screwed them into the wall right through the leather straps, so that the dowel fits in it and you can slide it in and out, there may be a prettier solution than screws into the wall, maybe that with some decorate button glued on the head of the screw. That you way you can pull it down and rip off as needed, and not pay a billion dollars :) Hope this helps
I love it! You could put a shelve beside the organizer and display your books. But the neon sign sounds amazing too! (That pin thing sounds like one of my nightmares, ouch 😖 I hope you're better now)
Amazing. Love it. Wish I had a dedicated sewing room; am using a corner of my living room . I have plastic bags (hidden behind upholstered chairs & couch) filled with fabric and notions, etc but plan on getting some see-through containers.
Wow, I'm surprised to see a major RUclipsr make do with such a "tiny" setup (simple iron station, small sewing and cutting table and not an insane amount of stashed fabric). It's very relatable! Yay ❤
Yeah! Same observation!
Im a member of a few Sewing groups on Facebook and some Sewing rooms I see there are huge and just SO MUCH FABRIC. Makes me feel small as a hobby sewist lol. I'm really encouraged seeing this simple setup. Like she puts out such quality and diverse work in such a simple space. Love April!
Agree! In the end, a stash is just dead stock if it isn't used. It holds little value and is a waste of production, space and money. Be proud of your small stash 😍
I feel the same ... April has so much talent and of all the DIY/Fashion up-cyclers I watch, she is the nearest n dearest to my heart ... She was the first I ever watched & that was a # of years ago ... Just Love her to pieces ❣
I thought the same. I just uploaded my craft space tour for those who can’t have an entire room dedicated to only crafts.
I love how accessible she makes sewing seem. That's why I like to watch her and Micarah Tewers. They prove that you don't need too many supplies to get started
I JUST TOOK THE QUIZ AND I TOO, HAVE JOINED THE BUTTERFLY CLUB! AND I JUST BROUGHT SOME STORAGE BINS FOR MY NEW STASH OF FABRIC SWATCHES WHICH GAVE ME THE ENTUSIASUM TO REDO MY SEWING SPACE. WHICH IS ALSO MY OFFICE, AND DEN. AND CRAFTROOM. AND I LIVE IN A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT! OH THE INSANITY OF IT ALL!! LOL!!!!
I love so many things about your video!
1. The stop motion photography keeps up the pace and the interest as you reorganize
2. Putting a colorful design (or even just a solid pink color!) behind Elfa is the best part of having that stuff for people who love color!
3. The pants hanger trick
4. Realizing suddenly that I can repurpose the Elfa drawers in one of my rolling carts into my wall system without spending any more than I need to for the tracks!
5. witnessing a clutter bug transformation!
I hope you have a magnet on a stick now to prevent injuries 😁.
If your sewing book collection grows (especially paperbacks) you can put some of it in the closet shelf with sturdy bookends.
You can extend your ELFA top rail and add clothes bars for fabrics and projects in process: they sell special hooks for purses/totes, too - The hook lets you hang your bags in a way that lets you put more bags on the rod, and of course to see and grab them quickly. Nice if you make or use homemade shopping bags. The Container Store has periodic sales (although usually not a full 50% off.) They used to always do 30% in January-mid February, 20% around September,, and one year they even offered a gift card that let you get double the value back in the coming year. So paying attention to sales is a smart move 🤓.
The test of a good system is whether it still looks great after a year. How is it going?
when you said, my husband!! so happy for you april.
I had the same reaction :D
You could use a sturdy curtain rod for hanging up the paper on the wall! Much cheaper, just get the plastic screws (drywall anchors) so it can hold the weight ☺️
That quiz is so helpful! Crazy lucky how the wall organizer went on sale. Love how it turned out
I thought you were going to say the “Live Your Dream” art represents your work on RUclips so when you were just like “it matches... the table” I burst out laughing 😂
Pants hangers for fabric!!!
Goodness 💖🎶
I just love you!
I can never understand how people deal with having carpet in their sewing space! How do you get all the fabric fluff, strands of thread and pins cleaned? I could never 😅 but i love how this room turned out!!
I really don’t know. I have tile flooring and I can barely handle the tiling so carpets would be a nightmare in hell.
Vacuum cleaner with a magnet can get needles, pins, and strands of thread, fabric fluff.
I love it! It’s so cute but also so functional-it doesn’t feel like it’s just purely aesthetic, totally can see how it would make your life so much easier! I’m inspired!!
Soo cute!! I love that you waited and got the deal on the display setup, it was meant for you! I'm a butterfly as well. I had no idea there were categories for people who like to have things a specific way in their space. If I don't see what I have on display I forget all about it so I do love the open shelving but get annoyed sometimes if the open space isnt organized. Gunna get clear containers and organize my space more.
I know right! Life changing haha. I really do leave things out so I can circle back to it haha
I'm the same way (apparently it can be an adhd thing) I gotta be able to see things in my fridge, my cupboards, my closet, etc or I forget they exist
If I can't do clear containers, labels help, and I put them on the sides instead of the tops in case things get stacked on top
I’m the same way. I can’t bare when my stuff in display isn’t organised but I’ll gladly shove things in hidden drawers. 😅 I’m currently tidying my setup because I wanted a new thing or two + I’m making way for some vintage patterns and possibly a new mannequin because I have a vintage one but she’s not so good, rusty, broken and really needs her fabric recovering but I don’t think that’s something I can do and I don’t want to ruin her vintage look. I want to get one of those stands that make it possible to see what threads I have because with the old storage I have, I have to shovel my hand around in my thread basket and always get splinters. It’s old and beautiful but really not something I can deal with. 😓
OMG.....loving the container store system. You created a unit that was nice and compact.....lots of drawer space......and each drawer holds soooooo many supplies......
Now.....let’s talk about the wall and desk.........love,love,loved them both.
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This is so gorgeous and I live for the pastel aesthetic. This is a big inspiration for my huge sewing studio that my mom and I are building for me so I could have enough room for making my large gowns and a huge walk in closet for my personal gowns and costumes since Im a cosplayer and designer.
I love Cas's clutterbug system of figuring out organizing styles so glad it worked for you as well.
My grandmother worked in a sewing factory, and was a wonderful seamstress and her best piece of advice was to always keep you hand sewing needles threaded. That way if you dropped them they were easier to find and if you stepped on one it would be easier to remove (which I did and it went in my foot all except half the eye and thread, which I wrapped around my finger and yanked it out). If you have a rug or carpeting, often pins and needles will land in an upright position.
I have a big magnet strip I tape to my swiffer when i drop my pins lol
@@ahhh4117 That's a good idea! I have one of those reaching tools for when things fall off the back of my sewing table, and it has a magnet on the end. Live and learn. LOL
@@ahhh4117 I was just about to comment something similar...we had a magnetic strip attached to the underside of the vacuum cleaner head... worked a treat... ;))
Oof, I'm just remembering when my mom would sew often on the sofa. One day, I wanted to look out the window and I felt something on my shin. Turns out, a sewing needle was halfway in my leg, and I was 8 😂😅
@yeet my waffles, that's such a smart idea!
I believe you can use shelf liner on the back of your rug to keep it from moving. That's at the $Store too.
I’m a butterfly, too. I enjoy organizing, so it’s like shopping in a store when I see everything laid out before me. Kitchen organization is even more fun.
HUSBAND NAME DROP! Feels we came from so far. When you casually mentioned that your husband did the tripod thing, I thought wow she is for sure getting comfy. "My husband did this and that...". How cute.
If or rather when you get more fabric, the old hangers can still be put to good use by using the tab of a soda can and linking a few of the hangers together that way.
I really love your craft room, that purchase was a real deal. Is is airy and not overcrowded, the wall painted in 2 tones 👍👍
I wouldn't add anymore things or craft notions.
This way you can see easily what you have to carry out your crafts. 😘😘🇪🇸
Enjoy your beautiful ‘new’ space.
i love it when i get a bunch of new organizing things or even just organize some part of my house in a new way and i feel like i want to tell everyone about it because i'm so excited, and watching this video brought me back to that excited place!! i can tell you're super happy with your new setup and it just feels good to talk about it, especially when you feel proud of yourself for coming up with it. this was quite fun to watch and i hope your setup stays organized!
Looks wonderful! I legit smiled with the sky and clouds table. So whimsical and fun!
It’s such a happy space! In the blank spot on the wall I think you should look for a 3 dimensional butterfly art to hang 🦋
ooooo this is such a cute idea!!
This is so great! ♥️ just curious, what do you do with your scrap fabrics? And one suggestion for the space your ironing board, if you don’t go the route of getting a neon sign (Which would be super cool), you can put a floating or regular shelf which you can use for your book or just cute decor pieces!
You could make a paper hanger with two wooden curtain brackets and a broom handle.Dollar tree sells a broom and mop system with a shared handle.. you could hang the. brackets, put the handle through the center of your paper roll and lay it across the brackets. You could also use PVC pipe instead of a. Broom handle.
Well done, April! With the spare spaces you have "left", you don't need to fill them, you can just leave them as is. Learn to live with negative spaces 😊
I love Love LOVE Cas and her Clutterbug channel 😍🥰😍 I am so psyched you discovered her and have been able to use her system to transform your space 😁😄
Stick the extra bins in the zipper drawer for now, so you don’t have to move them out of the way every time you want to access a user manual.
Get a rug gripper pad to prevent the rug from shifting. It’s like a foam rubber mesh that you can cut to size, if it’s not already in the size you want. Similar to some shelf grips that you may have seen.
Love this April! As a newbie sewist,it's encouraging to see how simple your setup is. You can put out so much quality and diverse works in your humble space. I must say I've been a fan for years, and you're one of the RUclipsrs who really encouraged me to get into sewing. Now I've been sewing for a few months and I'm loving it! Thank you so much for all your work! I'm looking forward to all the fun projects you'll create in your new cute space! Much love from the Philippines!
Great video and thanks for the clutterbug link. I'm a bee. :) now I can look at organization systems that will actually help me stay organized but still be functional. Your sewing room looks great, very pretty and functional at the same time.
Tip for people who like displaying newspapers, magazines, or soft cover books, plastic canvas. This is my medium and I can't you tell how many Pinterest things I see with covers, inserts and reinforcements for things like this. So either cut a nearly full length section to slide into your magazine to stand it up or create a small "shadowbox" for magazines and newspapers by making a very shallow drawer to help reinforce the spine's strength to the other side of the cover.
I switched over to the circle bobbin organizers and love them. They keep the thread secure, it's visual and easy to organize by color. Great for butterflies and bees (and everyone else).
Coolirpa!!! Thank you so much for sharing the organization quiz. What started as an "ideas for my future sewing room" turned into practical ways I can organize myself as a fellow "butterfly" organizer, and I'm finally motivated to declutter and create better organization systems for my house and my sewing room. Thank you!!!
Im a butterfly too. I use clear plastic shoe hanger things with the pockets to organize and i hang them on the door. But i need that fabric hanging idea as my fabric is in plastic totes and hard to access
I love the combination of colorful creativity and clean, minimal storage. Very, very well done!
Really I'm so excited to see it . I love ur studio ❤️❤️❤️👗👗
Oh my gosh I love clutterbug!!!! She is amazing!!!!!! So excited about this collab!
This video comes so perfectly for me. I am moving soon and right now I am planning the different rooms and also my office/ sewing room.
Wow....I’m only in 6 mins and I’m loving it......let me finish watching the wonderful transformation🤗🤗🤗
Perfect. Just ordered a book. Your room looks good.use the empty bins for the elastic. Roll it and put it side by side according to size.
I’m really over here trying to figure out how to create a diy version of that craft storage space. I live in a two bedroom house and my kids have the second room. I have a perfect space to transform in my living room!
I am a butterfly! it says this: You’re A Butterfly!
Love visual abundance and organizational simplicity. You are a really visual person and for you, it’s out-of-sight, out-of-mind. You need visual, but fast and easy systems, like clear or wire bins and baskets and lots of hooks
This is so cute! I've never considered this before, but I'm probably a butterfly too; my clothes just tend to sit in folded and sorted piles on my bed until i wear them again, or I'll wear the stuff hanging up in my closet, but i never go to my dresser drawers when i get dressed?? Same with my kitchen stuff... Definitely something to think about...
Loving this!!
I once somehow had the eye of a sewing needle go into my foot and break off. I had to go under and have it surgically removed.
This is amazing. From a fellow butterfly I would suggest keeping all your fabric in the closet. There's room on the shelf for the bulkier fabric. You might want to try hanging shoe organizers for your scrap fabric.
What a wonderful room. I love the wall caddie with the drawers. So great that you got a deal on it... and the pants hangars for fabric is genius. Enjoy your studio. You gave me lots of great ideas.
I am SO EXCITED to see it! I love studio space organizing
That test Is so accurate I'm freaking out a little 😂
I really like your space and that cloud table is amazing! I really like clouds too ✨
WOW! Such a professional & organized looking studio now. It should help cut down on the time it takes to make a project, since you won't have to search for items. Great make over guys!👍👍
Pants hangers for fabric! What a great hack!!!
I just got my first sweing machine on sunday and looking forward to make more sewing projects. I got toyato fs18 jeans .. its wonderful and second hand machine ..
April, for your pattern-making paper wouldn't the roll fit on one of the table legs or, maybe you could rig a stand up with a broomstick anchored in a pail or box of some kind? OR, hang the roll on a shower rod that you could anchor in your closet doorway or whereever (those shower rods are adjustable length and often not necessary to have to nail or screw - mine has rubber end-caps). You've got a lot of really good reference books that a bookcase (in white?) could stash and display conveniently, and looks likey you'd have room against a wall or in a corner, not blocking your light or work space. I bought a bookcase recently (5 shelves, in black!) at Target for about $40. Because you Mrs. "Butterfly" will absolutely utilize all storage drawers, shelves, hangers, etc.! And you do have some great flexibility with the storage you chose and you did brighten everything up with your pink wall graphics, great job! Wish I had a sewing room, dining table looks like your "prior" sewing area!! Enjoy, you are a wonderful design seamstress.
You could really tell that she's an artist. 😍 she's amazing.
Love your studio, it's small, but so well organised. The trick with pant hangers is pure genius! Hope you have many happy creative moments in your new sewing space.
Here's a little hack idea for your pattern paper: You can get an IKEA "Racka" Curtain rod and mount it under your desk or on the wall! I've seen lots of people do this for rolls of paper.
Totally meant to be! Those organizing shelves belong in there ♥️
My heart fluttered just a bit when you said, "My husband"...!
Wow! You still have SO MUCH extra space! Good job you! Now, you def need some BIG MIRRORS, girl! Get a non-slip rug mat for under the button rug.
Love clutterbug! Cas is amazing and her yt channel is life changing
Ah, we're the same way! It makes sense why I hate the bin-system, and end up feeling overwhelmed when I have to pull stuff out!
That's totally awesome! Thank you so much for sharing AND for the link to the test. I am a Butterfly as well as it turns out and I'm thinking that's a huge reason my decluttering didn't work so well. It wasn't/isn't the way that works best for me. thank you so much.
Great job on the organizing and transformation of your sewing space! Organization projects always take a lot of time and effort but the result is always worth it. And no one system works for everyone, but sharing is meant to spread inspiration and ideas so everyone can find and make their own!
Some suggestions based on the comments you made in your video: for your heavier or larger pieces of fabric, you can get some blanket hangers as those are generally heavier duty and match your pants hanger system; depending on how much fabric you actually have, you could also double the closet hanging space by getting a hanging closet rod (it's basically an additional closet rod you hang from your existing one) you can use to section off the fabrics on pants hangers from the blanket hangers (if you choose to go that route). For your pattern paper, a stand should be really easy to throw together: all you really need is a heavy flat base and a large dowel or pole for the middle, but this would also make it a little more difficult to move (unless your base has wheels) - food for thought! And lastly for your overhead camera setup - you mentioned that the tripods take up a lot of room (assuming you mean the tripod base takes up a lot of floor space) so might I suggest you replace it with a garment rack? The structure is almost identical and depending on the base, it could take up less room and also be easily movable.
Omyyy i need that organizer shelf too but i don’t see any store selling those in my country 😭😭 and the fashions books i that want too 😭😭♥️♥️ and i still can’t believe coolirpa is married now. I’ve been watching her diys way long ago they are still bf/gf ♥️♥️
I love those pants hanger, gonna try this to my sewing room. Anyway, love this transformation ^^
i cant wait to watch! i love the pink in the thumbnail, its one of my favourite shades of pink
Same!
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Your sewing room is awesome! Love the pink wall. Pink is my favourite colour. Thank you for sharing about being a butterfly. I just learned from you that I am too. This will be so helpful when I start organizing. Love your videos!
i love how much this reflects your personality 🥺
Coming from someone who's always looking for better ways to organize all her craft/sewing supplies, I looove how the room turned out!! Also makes me excited to go clean it all up and try new storage methods myself 😁
Wow, I'm trying to organize all my stuff. I wish I had a room for my crafting but I don' so I have to use a wall space in my apartment.
The fashion books are a great reference for doll clothes making. That wall organization from the container store is phenomenal. I wish I could have something like that. That's for sharing all this great information.
Beautiful transformation! Add a piece of design of your culture into the room.... Hmong design will be a beautiful touch!!!
This is just a suggestion but if in the future you needed more space ( because sewing means you need a stash of a lot of different things) you could consider moving the zippers in next to the elastics and velcro... especially if you had another one of those dividers that you bought separately. I hope this helps!! I really enjoy your videos!
Your sewing room looks wonderful. I've done the clutterbug test and I'm a bee. I really like her system for organising. Wonderful that you got the storage system half price - such a great saving for you.
That rug would be fun on the wall over the sewing machine table. I think the thread display would look good on the pink wall.
What a beautiful transformation! I wish you many happy hours of sewing and creating.
Hi, I live with butterflies. I'm more of the bee. I love your idea of pant hangers for the fabric. As per your flimsy paperback, go to Dollar Tree and get one of those photo frame easels.
Thank you for sharing
I found April when she'd only just started her channel, the 1st video I found was one where she made a pair of harem pants out of regular sweat pants.. Now I've finally started mine after yeeaaarrs of thinking about starting. This video has come in handy! ^_^
What a beautiful place to be creative! I hope you get many years of projects/ happiness out of the studio.
Just took the quiz and got a giggle out of it because I am a BEE! 🐝 Now to figure out how to do my new craftroom.
Definitely get a neon sign!! It would look so cool to have in the background of videos!
Definitely get the neon sign that would look amazing! 💞
She did such a great job! What a beautiful new sewing room.
You could use a regular curtain rack for your patterns paper
Love the modular stuff💭💕🛼
Just stunning! So glad you were able to save up for this from the support of your patrons ❤ I'm loving the drawer system!
Your “before” sewing room looks just like mine does rn 😭😅
same
Same! I'm working on it though. :)
(Is that a Deku Tshirt I see) That makeover was lovely! Congratulations on your sewing studio!!!
Do you mean Deku from My Hero Acadamia? I love that show!
Can’t wait. I’m so proud of you!
I love your sew room, simply beautiful
I love what you did! especially a sewer myself and other hobbies. I like how you organized it.
Love that button rug! Mmm making me feel the need to revamp my craft space for the new year!
Keep on being....awesome.
This so odd. For some reason, this is the first time in months that I've seen you appear on my subscription list.
Yes get a neon sign, it will be so bomb 💣🤍🧵👏🏽
Love your outfit and your skills. Thanks for sharing this sweetie.
Sorry to leave a late comment, but I have a budget friendly hack for paper rolls!
Go to any home hardware store, pick up a dowel the length you need, if you have some leather/leather like fabric, you can cut two strips and make loops. I just screwed them into the wall right through the leather straps, so that the dowel fits in it and you can slide it in and out, there may be a prettier solution than screws into the wall, maybe that with some decorate button glued on the head of the screw. That you way you can pull it down and rip off as needed, and not pay a billion dollars :)
Hope this helps
I love it! You could put a shelve beside the organizer and display your books. But the neon sign sounds amazing too! (That pin thing sounds like one of my nightmares, ouch 😖 I hope you're better now)
Wonderful, a nice sewing room, thanks for sharing
Amazing. Love it. Wish I had a dedicated sewing room; am using a corner of my living room . I have plastic bags (hidden behind upholstered chairs & couch) filled with fabric and notions, etc but plan on getting some see-through containers.
Wow! I wish one day I could have my own sewing room. I as well fell in live with that craft display 🥰
Thinking about it, I might be a butterfly too