We own half of the books on this list and would happily make room on the shelf for the other five. We love the feeling of pure potential that these kind of project based books, filled with lovel

Even though Mr. Sew and I share a townhouse together, we have separate rooms. (Avatars created with this) After the wedding, Mr. Sewing will move into my room, since it’s slightly bigger than his. (Because I’m slightly bigger than ...

If you own a sewing machine, you know that finding a permanent place for it can be a challenge. You may be lucky enough to have a whole craft room, or you may just have a tiny corner of space.

It looks like the new bedroom that I resolved in January 2009 to create for my daughters is near completion. My husband is putting the finishing touches on the paint, and I am about to order some new furniture for the room. (I’ve c...

My sewing  room still looks like a hurricane swept through. But in the midst of the chaos, there is a method to my madness. Since digging through my scrap bins, I’ve had to divide and conquer by hunting for other containers to sort ...

As usual, the contestants on season seven of Project Runway are treated to some very stylin' digs when they're not slaving away at the sewing machine. This season, they return to...

Somehow, I got sucked into the sewing room when I should have been doing chores!  I’ve got house blocks on the brain.  Again, all from scraps. Each time I dig into my scrap baskets, they get dumped all over the floor like a hurrican...

You haven’t replaced that water-sucking front lawn with organic vegetables to share with neighbors, begun hang drying your laundry out by the Infinity pool or sewing your own reusable tampons in your craft room. BFD! You don’t have ...

Q: Help!!! I live in a lightless basement room and need help arranging the cramped space to accommodate four key elements: space for upright exercise bike sewing/craft area desk fo

Craftster user, thanate, shows how she built a custom threadrack to help organized her sewing space. This would be a great way to make something that fits your thread stash and your craft room! Read this article | Comment on this...

This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Sewing Room TV Cover by modernjax, knit red cape by gascoynebowman, fat bear, needle felted by vriad_lee, and feltronics by ifyoulikebubbles. Read this article | Comment on this articl...

DeannaLynn06 has a knack for organizing - just look at her awesome craft room! Everything is in it’s place, but easy to see, and easy to reach. That big sewing table and dress form are enviable, and look at that orderly closet! I lo...

In my recent post “10 Sewing Room Essentials – For Me” – I mentioned that gridded quilting rulers are one of my can’t live without tools.  And they’re not just for quilting either. How else can you use them? Well mine is getting qui...

Everyone has their own favorite tools – the ones you just couldn’t live without.  And the ones that make you extremely cranky if your family “borrows” them I’ve been thinking lately about what sewing tools I use the most… and whic...

(S01E02) About half-way into this episode of Eastwick, my husband came into the room and said, "This is mind-numbing dribble, posing as a plot." My husband never minces words, and while I'm usually the good cop in the relationship,...

While researching sewing and craft rooms, we realized that many of these rooms have a tech element besides the sewing machine, with home office and entertainment integrated alongside expected crafting

I’m having a problem in my sewing room that thankfully, doesn’t crop up that often. When it does, however… Yuck! I’m talking about that unfortunate problem, stinky fabric. Part of the jacket that I’m sewing for my DH has a peculiar...

I browse through books and magazines and gaze longingly at the lovely and efficient studios or workspaces other artists have. At one point in my life, I did have one room in our house devoted to my sewing and quiltmaking, along with...

Post from: Blisstree Rethinking Old Materials In The Sewing Room

Equal parts home office, craft room, homeschool room, scrapbook and sewing room--did we leave anything out? We love how this space feels roomy and functional yet also has a multitude of purpose