This weekend I started converting what was our dressing room (and by rights should be our spare bedroom) into a sewing room. I can't even begin to tell you how exciting that is for me! I used to rent a studio space but that didn't really work out all that well, although I loved it, it was expensive and I didn't use it as much as I should have because (quite honestly) I like being at home, in my jammies and my slippers
I currently use the dining room and kitchen to sew in, which is great to be able to spread out and take over the whole area but once I pick my kids up from school it becomes family space again and so from 3pm onwards my stuff is stacked in a huge mess either on the floor or pushed towards the far end of the dining table. It's not great when you're halfway through working on something, and it's especially not great when you're halfway through cutting stuff out - I always seem to end up losing bits and pieces or forget how far I've got with my cutting.
My new space isn't huge - it's about 10 ft square so I have to be very careful in how I plan where things go. I have my sewing machine, of course, a big shot pro (which is a big machine!) as well as my big shot and all my dies. The big shot pro will probably live on the floor under my cutting table and be lifted onto it when I use it (even as I'm typing that my arms are aching at the thought. But won't I have amazing upper arms with all that lifting?!)
I'll have a lot of shelves built into this unit pictured below (you can see I've started with those) but I'd love your suggestions on storage for my dies because right now they live in a sideboard which will stay downstairs in the dining room (and will again have dining room things in it - fancy that! A dining room sideboard with actual dining ware in!)
How do you store yours? How should I store mine? How should I store everything to be quite honest - so it's neat but easily accessible. I don't have room for more furniture, I do have wall space for shelving but I'd quite like to have my precious room to be (potentially) tidy. It will probably not be all that tidy at all, but if I have the systems in place I'm more likely to be tidy - right? I really value your opinions, I have to admit I'm a bit stuck and I'm not sure what to do with them. I also have a tendency to rush out and buy a load of impractical storage that ends up being completely useless!!!
This weekend I started converting what was our dressing room (and by rights should be our spare bedroom) into a sewing room. I can't even begin to tell you how exciting that is for me! I used to rent a studio space but that didn't really work out all that well, although I loved it, it was expensive and I didn't use it as much as I should have because (quite honestly) I like being at home, in my jammies and my slippers
I currently use the dining room and kitchen to sew in, which is great to be able to spread out and take over the whole area but once I pick my kids up from school it becomes family space again and so from 3pm onwards my stuff is stacked in a huge mess either on the floor or pushed towards the far end of the dining table. It's not great when you're halfway through working on something, and it's especially not great when you're halfway through cutting stuff out - I always seem to end up losing bits and pieces or forget how far I've got with my cutting.
My new space isn't huge - it's about 10 ft square so I have to be very careful in how I plan where things go. I have my sewing machine, of course, a big shot pro (which is a big machine!) as well as my big shot and all my dies. The big shot pro will probably live on the floor under my cutting table and be lifted onto it when I use it (even as I'm typing that my arms are aching at the thought. But won't I have amazing upper arms with all that lifting?!)
At the moment it's pretty much a blank canvas. Eventually I'd like to get some nice flooring but to save money I've whitewashed the floorboards and I've seen a big rug that will fit perfectly and add a bright splash of colour. I'm also thinking that the big wall straight ahead will be the perfect place for a design wall (so I don't need to worry too much about my paint job...I'll admit painting and decorating is not one of my strong points!)
I'll have a lot of shelves built into this unit pictured below (you can see I've started with those) but I'd love your suggestions on storage for my dies because right now they live in a sideboard which will stay downstairs in the dining room (and will again have dining room things in it - fancy that! A dining room sideboard with actual dining ware in!)
How do you store yours? How should I store mine? How should I store everything to be quite honest - so it's neat but easily accessible. I don't have room for more furniture, I do have wall space for shelving but I'd quite like to have my precious room to be (potentially) tidy. It will probably not be all that tidy at all, but if I have the systems in place I'm more likely to be tidy - right? I really value your opinions, I have to admit I'm a bit stuck and I'm not sure what to do with them. I also have a tendency to rush out and buy a load of impractical storage that ends up being completely useless!!!
