Organizing My Sewing Room

In honor of National Hobby Month, I have decided to focus on my hobby of sewing(yup, just this one!) I am going to spend the month of January organizing my sewing space. My current sewing/creative space is being set up in our basement. The house is older & the basement is damp during the summer, dry & dusty during the winter (we heat with coal), so my choices for storage reflect that. We will be installing doors to the room SOON, keeping the dust out is a major priority.

Sew, I spent some time down in the sewing room last night to asses the situation. Boy do I need some organizing & decluttering! I know you can't organize clutter, I just need to sort out as I straighten! SO lets start in with what I have...

I have a good foundation already started. I inherited some kitchen cupboards & counter tops. I love the height of them. It makes cutting on my board comfortable, since I'm not always hunched over a lower table. I have plenty of drawers & cupboards to stash stuff in. As soon as my husband finishes running me an outlet, he says they'll be level & I can actually use them!!!

I also was able to pick up a large rectangular table I use for my machines from our local high school at the end of the school year, I just had to get permission to take it. I also picked up a couple of old wood desks, a corner table, 2 large round cafeteria tables & an old printer table. Hey I was there!!! The wood desks have our kids desktop on it with the family printer, one of the round tables is a play table in our sons room, the corner table is in our daughters "kitchen", the printer table has the table saw mounted to it in the workshop. So this is a great resource if you aren't going for style!