I love the behind-the-scenes videos! So honest, real and unfiltered. Things like WIP garments, missing an armhole that has been sitting there for the past month etc Totally relatable!
Finally, a sewing space(s) I can relate to! I have a small home and four people live here. So, we all have stuff and hobbies. My sewing is stashed all over the house wherever there is a free space because there is no one space where it will all fit. My thread is in a plastic box about the same size as your shoe box but here is something I did-went to WMart and got a package of small baggies from the jewelry section. They are nice and thick and one of the sizes is about the size of a spool of thread + a little. So, in each baggie I stash a spool and its corresponding bobbin. I still have to dig through the box to get the color I want but it is no longer a tangled mess, just a jumbled one.
Keeping your machine on the desk makes sure that the desk has room for your machine. That it matters, and (more to my issues) the desk doesn't get covered with other projects that don't get picked up at the end of their work day. Pride of place: bravo!
Now I have a large studio, but when I lived in a bitty house, I had sewing stuff 3 levels of my house - in the basement, 3 bitty attic cubbies, and under my bed in numbered boxes and bins. The best thing I did was take a swatch of every fabric chunk I had larger than a yard. Those were glued on a card & on the back, I noted the number of the bin or box, length & width of fabric, content, and any other details - i.e. Box #5, 2 1/2 yds x 50" W, cotton. Did the same for any tools or other stuff in storage. That saved a lot of time and mess in digging through boxes searching for a matching fabric, lining or other option. Even though I have room now, I have continued to keep cards with swatches since it was SO very helpful in finding coordinates and saves buying unnecessary fabric if there is something in my stash that works....
Diana McCauley How I wish you were my best friend and lived in my town, so you could help me make cards for fabric in all my bins. Your .method sounds. great. Pictures of inside of drawers and boxes can show where things are stashed. Then don't have to write everything down. But doesn't work well for fabrics stacked in large containers.
Yeesss! This is my life. I love your video!! Now I need a current project basket! I also have a cozy home. Originally, I made a reading nook/home library in a corner of my basement. I had plenty of bookshelf space (I optimistically bought five big bookshelves) so I started storing fabrics on two of them and brought in my home office furniture so now it is office/sewing space/home library which actually feels like my own little world. I think I am the only person on my team that doesn't use a background filter in video meetings. 😄 My great dane is usually napping on the reading chairs behind me unless his boxer friend is over and then they are clowning around or competing for my attention. It is organized, but also "warm (it's a basement so not really)" and happy, at least to me. I have a telescoping tablet stand for my "Netflix and sew" time. I am working out a way to bring in some live plants without my cat eating or destroying them. 😁
@@haleyglenn7735 Olive is such a cute name! My cat is Pippi and like olive she loves napping on fabric. I have a picture of my kitty on kitty fabric I was using for a little girl's curtains... 🤭 kittyception
Thank you so much for sharing your sewing space. I love seeing other people's sewing spaces. Maybe people thought that seeing you are a Professional Sewist /Pattern maker / designer and on social media, that you would have a huge space, with all the bells and whistles! It just goes to show, that we don't need a huge space to be a successful Sewist. I really like your idea of current projects being at hand, in the lovely basket along with the tool box. Thank you for the inspiration, and allowing us to come into your home to see your Happy Space.
Thanks, Carole! I absolutely agree! Of course a big lovely space would be magical but I am fond of my little corner and the peace it brings my life. You definitely don't need a lot to get started or become an expert. I have sewn wedding dresses at a kitchen table!
Multi function rooms... my main family room in the middle of our house open to all other rooms is one of many multiple function rooms... it's family room, homeschool room, music room, library, at times been a dining room, and now will add sewing. I have another space in my bedroom but I want my teen daughters to do some sewing this year so I'm putting everything in the family room so it's accessible for the kids too. Pretty much anything I want to Encourage the kids and family to do or be surround by or inspired by Goes in the family room.
I like your box of threads which has many memories. I organize my spools of thread by color group in sandwich size ziploc bags and keep in a small drawer - but a shoe box would do as well. :) Serger cones fit upright in the drawer. Thank you for sharing.
Me too! Organizing by color family was a really big game changer, as it makes me twice as likely to put thread away when I'm done with it, AND be able to find it again later. Also makes it possible to finish something if I run out of the exact thread and just need something close enough in a place no one will notice (hem!)
I went to the fishing area of my local W*** and bought a plastic box used to store lures. I can lay my spools of thread in it and see at a glance the color I need. I bet a couple of those would fi inside of your shoe box so you can save the memories too
I live in a very small apartment so my sewing space is also multi-functional. Like you I like to keep my sewing machine out - it just makes it so much easier to get started. I'm afraid I don't have any tips to give you but I am going to use some of your ideas to help make my space more organised. Thank you for posting.
My sewing space is one corner of our very small home office/what was my husbands man cave 🙈. I have an IKEA desk like yours but I have a small drawer unit under one end for all my tools, threads etc. My patterns live in plastic storage box on the floor and I have a small trolley at the end of my desk where my iron and pressing ham etc lives. 🇬🇧
I enjoyed your tour. I'm fortunate now to have a spacious sewing room, the only room in the house that I can claim as absolutely mine. Years ago I hammered nails at an angle into a piece of plywood. It holds my threads, bobbins and a few other little things. It can be hung on the wall, leaned up against something or laid flat, depending on the current configuration of my room. It's useful to see all the colors of thread at once, to know whether I'll have to buy more for a project.
Oh My, I can definitely relate to this space! I have my Ikea sewing table inside my bedroom! and my folding cutting table in the living room, I wish I had it all together but I have to go back and forth...I have a lot of tools maybe I need to simplify things down. I loved this tour! Thank You for sharing.
Okay, now, let me speak for lots of ladies... WHEN are you going to do a tutorial for that awesome rope basket! And leather handles! MUST MAKE ONE (said in zombie brainsssss voice! LOL) Thanks for sharing your space.
I have a large space but I am always cramming in more stuff. I got a rolling closet that fits partially inside another closet ( no doors) and created a space for clothes I want to repair/ alter in front of a closet full of fabrics. I will try to post a photo here.
You do have some vertical wall space available to you for keeping some tools, etc. I make use of the doors to hold baskets, and hanging storage pockets. My problem is I need to keep everything covered due to living in a very dusty area. I have to dust evryday, so can't have thread, fabric etc showing. I too have boxes I can't bring myself to throw away. Of course if I did throw them out, then I would know the perfect way to use those boxes.
I love the behind-the-scenes videos! So honest, real and unfiltered. Things like WIP garments, missing an armhole that has been sitting there for the past month etc Totally relatable!
Finally, a sewing space(s) I can relate to! I have a small home and four people live here. So, we all have stuff and hobbies. My sewing is stashed all over the house wherever there is a free space because there is no one space where it will all fit. My thread is in a plastic box about the same size as your shoe box but here is something I did-went to WMart and got a package of small baggies from the jewelry section. They are nice and thick and one of the sizes is about the size of a spool of thread + a little. So, in each baggie I stash a spool and its corresponding bobbin. I still have to dig through the box to get the color I want but it is no longer a tangled mess, just a jumbled one.
Genius!
Keeping your machine on the desk makes sure that the desk has room for your machine. That it matters, and (more to my issues) the desk doesn't get covered with other projects that don't get picked up at the end of their work day. Pride of place: bravo!
Your sewing room is the most relatable to me! My sewing room is similarly scattered yet organized! Thanks for sharing:-)
Now I have a large studio, but when I lived in a bitty house, I had sewing stuff 3 levels of my house - in the basement, 3 bitty attic cubbies, and under my bed in numbered boxes and bins. The best thing I did was take a swatch of every fabric chunk I had larger than a yard. Those were glued on a card & on the back, I noted the number of the bin or box, length & width of fabric, content, and any other details - i.e. Box #5, 2 1/2 yds x 50" W, cotton. Did the same for any tools or other stuff in storage. That saved a lot of time and mess in digging through boxes searching for a matching fabric, lining or other option. Even though I have room now, I have continued to keep cards with swatches since it was SO very helpful in finding coordinates and saves buying unnecessary fabric if there is something in my stash that works....
Wow! I admire your organization! Such a great idea!
Diana McCauley How I wish you were my best friend and lived in my town, so you could help me make cards for fabric in all my bins. Your .method sounds. great. Pictures of inside of drawers and boxes can show where things are stashed. Then don't have to write everything down. But doesn't work well for fabrics stacked in large containers.
Thanks for sharing your space! Also, I laughed so hard at the bit about the boxes from our phones that we all keep for some reason. 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
I laughed at that, too! It must be a movement!
I just can't bring myself to throw them away! 😆
The basket with the leather handle is so pretty!
I love it!~
Thank you! 😊
Yeesss! This is my life. I love your video!! Now I need a current project basket! I also have a cozy home. Originally, I made a reading nook/home library in a corner of my basement. I had plenty of bookshelf space (I optimistically bought five big bookshelves) so I started storing fabrics on two of them and brought in my home office furniture so now it is office/sewing space/home library which actually feels like my own little world. I think I am the only person on my team that doesn't use a background filter in video meetings. 😄 My great dane is usually napping on the reading chairs behind me unless his boxer friend is over and then they are clowning around or competing for my attention. It is organized, but also "warm (it's a basement so not really)" and happy, at least to me. I have a telescoping tablet stand for my "Netflix and sew" time. I am working out a way to bring in some live plants without my cat eating or destroying them. 😁
That does sound cozy! Sadly my cat, Olive didn't make an appearance in this video but rest assured she takes lots on naps on my fabric. 😹
@@haleyglenn7735 Olive is such a cute name! My cat is Pippi and like olive she loves napping on fabric. I have a picture of my kitty on kitty fabric I was using for a little girl's curtains... 🤭 kittyception
Thank you so much for sharing your sewing space. I love seeing other people's sewing spaces. Maybe people thought that seeing you are a Professional Sewist /Pattern maker / designer and on social media, that you would have a huge space, with all the bells and whistles!
It just goes to show, that we don't need a huge space to be a successful Sewist. I really like your idea of current projects being at hand, in the lovely basket along with the tool box. Thank you for the inspiration, and allowing us to come into your home to see your Happy Space.
Thanks, Carole! I absolutely agree! Of course a big lovely space would be magical but I am fond of my little corner and the peace it brings my life. You definitely don't need a lot to get started or become an expert. I have sewn wedding dresses at a kitchen table!
Multi function rooms... my main family room in the middle of our house open to all other rooms is one of many multiple function rooms... it's family room, homeschool room, music room, library, at times been a dining room, and now will add sewing. I have another space in my bedroom but I want my teen daughters to do some sewing this year so I'm putting everything in the family room so it's accessible for the kids too. Pretty much anything I want to Encourage the kids and family to do or be surround by or inspired by Goes in the family room.
I like your box of threads which has many memories. I organize my spools of thread by color group in sandwich size ziploc bags and keep in a small drawer - but a shoe box would do as well. :) Serger cones fit upright in the drawer. Thank you for sharing.
Me too! Organizing by color family was a really big game changer, as it makes me twice as likely to put thread away when I'm done with it, AND be able to find it again later. Also makes it possible to finish something if I run out of the exact thread and just need something close enough in a place no one will notice (hem!)
I went to the fishing area of my local W*** and bought a plastic box used to store lures. I can lay my spools of thread in it and see at a glance the color I need. I bet a couple of those would fi inside of your shoe box so you can save the memories too
Oh what a lovely idea! Thanks for sharing!
I am inspired by your basket holding your current projects. I love making rope bowls. I have never attempted that shape, KUDOS!
I live in a very small apartment so my sewing space is also multi-functional. Like you I like to keep my sewing machine out - it just makes it so much easier to get started. I'm afraid I don't have any tips to give you but I am going to use some of your ideas to help make my space more organised. Thank you for posting.
My sewing space is one corner of our very small home office/what was my husbands man cave 🙈. I have an IKEA desk like yours but I have a small drawer unit under one end for all my tools, threads etc. My patterns live in plastic storage box on the floor and I have a small trolley at the end of my desk where my iron and pressing ham etc lives. 🇬🇧
I love the idea of a small drawer unit. Sounds like the perfect place to finally organize my thread 😆
I enjoyed your tour. I'm fortunate now to have a spacious sewing room, the only room in the house that I can claim as absolutely mine. Years ago I hammered nails at an angle into a piece of plywood. It holds my threads, bobbins and a few other little things. It can be hung on the wall, leaned up against something or laid flat, depending on the current configuration of my room. It's useful to see all the colors of thread at once, to know whether I'll have to buy more for a project.
Love that idea!
Thanks so much for sharing your small sewing space! I to have a wee space that I am still working on!
Thanks for watching!
Oh My, I can definitely relate to this space! I have my Ikea sewing table inside my bedroom! and my folding cutting table in the living room, I wish I had it all together but I have to go back and forth...I have a lot of tools maybe I need to simplify things down. I loved this tour! Thank You for sharing.
“...the boxes from your phone that you save for some reason” 😂 same same!
Had the same thread situation, then I organized them in a little drawer and I feel so accomplished!😅😅
You inspire me! I need to get my act together! 😜
Okay, now, let me speak for lots of ladies... WHEN are you going to do a tutorial for that awesome rope basket! And leather handles! MUST MAKE ONE (said in zombie brainsssss voice! LOL) Thanks for sharing your space.
We have a rope bowl tutorial already up! ruclips.net/video/eN6M8-sY3-0/видео.html
I have a large space but I am always cramming in more stuff. I got a rolling closet that fits partially inside another closet ( no doors) and created a space for clothes I want to repair/ alter in front of a closet full of fabrics. I will try to post a photo here.
You do have some vertical wall space available to you for keeping some tools, etc. I make use of the doors to hold baskets, and hanging storage pockets. My problem is I need to keep everything covered due to living in a very dusty area. I have to dust evryday, so can't have thread, fabric etc showing. I too have boxes I can't bring myself to throw away. Of course if I did throw them out, then I would know the perfect way to use those boxes.
I've got a small space to that serves too many purposes, you're better behaved than me lol.😊
Thanks for sharing.
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