maryb119

I like a good office style chair with wheels and adjustable height. It really helps with my back and shoulders when I am sitting in a supportive chair and the height is important too. I am short and it bothers my neck if I have to look up to see what I am doing. I can raise the chair up so i look down on my project and that really helps.

dakotamaid

This is a great idea and one that I will use in my new sewing room.

I have a 7X10 foot "closet" now (packed up and ready to move) and my new sewing room is a SE exposure 12X14 bedroom with an extra deep closet. My hubby is going to put floor to ceiling shelves in the closet and I am going with the idea of the pegboard above my cutting table. I have seen those hooks that actually hold little bins on the pegboard, Oh my mind is working!! Of course one whole wall is taken up with my quilting machine. It will still be crowded but at least I will have everything in one place!!LOL!

Melody, you will have to post pics when you get yours set up and I will also post. But keep in mind my room won't be finished until September! In the meanwhile I have held out my hexagon grandmother's flower garden that I'm piecing by hand and a counted cross stitch for those "quiet" moments when I'll need to recharge.

Everyone have a happy quilting summer, I will be lurking while on those long drives between houses.

MarthaVA

I have found the greatest little bins to hold FQs and smaller cuts of fabric - and I only paid a dollar for each. WalMart had some that were 2/$1.00 and Target had a bunch for a dollar each, and the Dollar Tree has them too. GREAT!
I put them on my book case and I can see all my pretty fabric!

I use those 3M hooks to hang on my wall and I hung a large piece of flannel using binder clips for my design wall.

Melody

I like little bins. I'll have to check into that. And a peg board beside a cutting table sounds great too. Hooks to hang a design wall.... good idea for this small room.

And I do want to raise the height of a table for cutting. I get backaches too easily.

You know, I have searched through the sewing rooms on this board but getting your input is an even bigger help.

quiltluvr

I use a woven basket that's originally a flatware caddy and put my most essential notions in, rotary cutter, scissors, seam ripper, pens, straight rulers, etc., next to my machine.

I, too will be getting a new sewing room so I've been thinking of how I would change what I have now. I feel the new room will be about the size of yours now (my current one isn't much bigger). I'd like to put up lots of open shelving with baskets, if I can find what I want at the price I need. But it all depends on the layout/lighting too.

Take advantage of the wall space. Go up not out, as the saying goes. As was suggested too, maximize your closet space too. There are reasonably priced venting shelving closet organizers that may work and aren't terribly complicated to install. I used them in my closets when I owned my house and swear by them. One tweak I did with them is I needed to cover some of the shelves so things wouldn't fall thru, so I got some pretty peel and stick tiles and cut them to fit. I didn't stick them on the shelf directly that way I could always alter it for my needs.

craftybear

can you post a picture of what you used, please

aliaslaceygreen

You have been given lots of great ideas!!!
page three of this thread is where I have more currents shots of my studio...I still have more to do, but it is coming along....
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-44879-3.htm

Don't be afraid to try and reject some things; it takes time to find what works for YOU!
good luck!

Melody

The wooden box on the wall by your machine... does that hold thread? I like that!

aliaslaceygreen

no, it is actually holding 2 oz craft paints...had hubby take two of those wire cube grids, and build a frame around them....

dsb38327

Hi there. Sounds like you are going to be a busy little beaver. Your room is nice. Seems like it will make a good sewing room. The casters are helpful to me. I have a couple shelves on the desktop (sewing table) against the wall. I keep my sewing brick a brack on them. I also have booties on my cutting table (pvc pipe from Lowes). If you want a photo let me know.
Good luck, I am happy for you.
Regards, Dorothy