Fabulous space Clara and your mosaic is wonderful did you create it yourself?

Your messy pre studio is really controlled and tidy. Rosemary needs to post hers before her upgrade (no offence meant Rosemary)

Wow looks fabulous!

I just finished the mosaic in the wet area. Now, time for grout. Hubby is happy that is done.

I have been reading all the organization articles on the TQS newsletters and they've been a great resource. Share your clever ideas. Share your spaces.

Pretty PLEASE!

A room is only really messy if you cannot see the floor Just been uncovering mine today...

Took a little hunting, but glad to see your hat again

Thanks for the tour, your space looks great!

Barb

A few more.

Above the pressing station is a cork board and I filled it with quotes and inspirations and letters that make me smile. There is also a sneak peek for a project that I have cooking on there.

Yes, Zoey the lab is my shadow. Just about literally.

I thought I go ahead and take pictures of my studio while it was messy and in it’s true nature. Hee Hee

First I have to give you the story of my studio.

My quilting space in my house was in our bedroom. I had stuff stashed all over the house. The bathrooms were safe, but I did have a roll of pdf fabric under one of my boys beds. The decision for the studio construction started with my husband’s parents. When they were starting to get to the point in their life where regular care was going to be needed, my husband and I had many many conversations about building a guest house/studio to serve this purpose. His folks decided to stay in Georgia, so that thought dissolved until my Mom started showing signs of mobility issues. Then I started to draw out plans. The guest room, bathroom and all doors have easy access to account for any issues that we might encounter. We also wanted it to be bright and flexible for multiple uses. The studio has a wide open space to help with this and a lot of light from windows and fixtures. My quilting table already had wheels on it, so does the long arm frame. We also brought in 3 plastic office tables that adjust to 3 different heights. These were a surprise to how handy they are. They are very lightweight, so they can moved to where the need it. I can put them together and create a large area for painting and dye work. Right now you see them scattered, one near the long arm, one near the quilting table with a project ready to go, and the other covered with tiles from the mosaic project.

Hubby is also considered in here. He has a recliner and yes a big tv. In fact he was using it last night watching Forest Gump and had the stereo booming. He loves coming into the studio in the morning with his coffee and laptop and sharing my quilting table. Yes, we have had a conversation about when there is a project on the table. It is all good.

The kids love the space, because they got a bonus loft over the guest room and like to hang out there. It has brought a lot of joy and happiness to the family.

The guest room has a corner with quilts from my quilting buddies for inspiration. There are two more coming. This helps me with my creative mojo. Kinda like a friendly node to “you got this” everyday.

Enjoy my mess, because here it comes. Oh and one more thing. This is only a little mess. I can do a lot better than this. The closet is not included in the mess thing. That part is actually pretty good right now.

Love the pics! I will try to get brave and post some pics. Right now it is a mess and I am not able to do much about it.

CarrieG wrote: The walls look pretty straight to me, ok so they are vertically challenged, but straight

Here are 4 pictures of the room that I use to sew in. When we built this home in 2014 I got my very own room! It is my happy place.

There is the sewing table with the view of Rattlesnake Mountain.



The cutting table with the transom window



The design wall



and the wall 'o fabrics! Plus other stuff. The bins are in color order. One set of bins for cottons and one set of bins for batiks.




I love your little chalkboard signs!

geneva

This is an old picture. But it shows the angled walls/ceiling I have to deal with. My pressing station is a credenza, the sewing machine table is in the center of the room. Fabric is stored in the cabinet next to the sliding door. More fabric in the plastic totes under table as well as cutting table. Unseen in the corner is another cabinet with my tv on it. On the left is a closet and my design wall.


This used to be our bedroom until we added one on downstairs. Our next house is going to have straight walls. LOL

Here's the first image to get us going.

This is some of my fabric. Actually it is my favorite fabric. I love hand-dyed and batiks. There are my weakness. I finally brought in all the fabric from my house that had been stashed all over the place. Sorted it by color and type and the favorites got their very own bin. My novelty fabrics are in plastic containers on the shelf, sorted by subjects and themes. Yes, I have a box filled with horsey fabrics. Guilty, but ok with that.

About the photo.
I got these cute little chalkboards that I hung on the hand grips of the bins for labeling. I love these, because I can change them if I need to and it's easy to know where to find what I need. Labels were tricky on these bins because of the fine mesh. I tried a few things. Large stickers, but they did not stick very well. Plastic cards with little velcro tabs and glued them to the sides. Same problem. I knew at that point I needed to feed something threw the holes. The chalkboards were the perfect solution. They even have tiny ones about the size of business cards that will be added to the skinny drawers and my thread bins too. This area makes me smile when I look at it. All the fabric waiting to see what they become.

I'm slowly but surely getting my quilting space set up. Working on fine tweaking now. I'll be posting photos soon of the different areas.

Have you been inspired by all the organizing articles from TQS? What ideas have you come up with to solve needs and problems.

Storage for fabric. (You know we all have lots.)
Pressing station. (Not my favorite part of quilting, but necessary)
Sewing area. (Handy tidbits to keep you sewing)
Thread, gadgets and dilly boppers. (What to do with them all)
Is your space multifunctional or a dedicated space?
What is your favorite thing about your space?

Show them here... Please.
You know you want to see everyone's space too. I do.