Monday, June 14, 2010

Craft Room Update

I've been slowly improving my craft room it's cool looking back through my posts on it's progress! It's still not completely finished but I got a huge part of it up and running and it's a dream come true!
Above is a photo as you walk in the door! The board on top of the little chest of drawers is padded fabric and can be ironed on! How perfect is that!
As you can see it's a U (well more like J haha) with my work station in front of the window that's where I'll do my embroidery and embellishment etc. Then a little swivel to the right and I have my sewing machine, and a little swivel to the right again the padded board for ironing as I piece! And I can always set up the ironing board there too! The little desk that the sewing machine is on we got at Staples it's just a little cheepie computer desk that we didn't install the keyboard slide out so it's the perfect depth!
I have my cork board which I pinned a bunch of swap items and pretty things but I also put a couple of push pins up to hold my current project to get it out of the way, the square Q-snap sits right on them!
Right next to the door I have a Design Wall hanging you can see the Tree Project on it right now. It's supposed to hold blocks on it without using pins but my cream blocks are too heavy to stay up for too long, if I want it to stay up longer term I still need to pin.
Then my hubby put up shelves for me to have my supplies in reaching distance! Wow did they make a huge difference! I gained and freed up a ton of space just from having them put up! Now the bookshelf I had a lot of my supplies on is free for all my various embroidery, crazy quilting, beading, tatting, etc. books as well as other things!
On the door I got a hanger for the iron and ironing board when not needed!
Also I got hooks to store my hoops using vertical space! Now they aren't stacked somewhere with the possibility of getting lost under things or cluttering up space!

6 comments:

Ruby said...

This is cool! Great job of organizing.

Wendy said...

So very nice!!!! I am impressed!!!

Unknown said...

That is lovely! What a sweet hubs you have to build those shelves for you! Give him a super hug!
~TattingChic ♥

Kelly said...

Love what you've done with the room, how inspiring! I'm going to have to find a hanger for my iron and ironing board, maybe they'll get used more if they aren't hidden away in a closet!

Melissa said...

Kelly I got it at JoAnn's it can either be mounted on the wall or door, but I chose door!

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

Your craft room looks great! I need to get into mine and organize it. I can't find anything I want to work on! Thanks for the inspiration!