This weekend I got new cabinet for my yarn. It is good size and I was hoping all would fit in it. Well it doesn’t :pout: .
As it is I have knitting suplies in the LL, FR, MB and Basement.
I would love room of my own devoted just to my crafts 
:drool:
I was wondering what others do and where do you keep your yarn?
My yarn is like having a gorilla. Where does he sleep? Anywhere he wants!! :teehee:
I mostly keep it in my bedroom on the side of the bed in collapsable hampers, but there are also laundry bags in the closet, bins up on a shelf, a chestful in the diningroom and a few baskets in the living room. :shrug: So basically my house is my craft room.
I would love my own room too… all set up with tables and chairs and everything organized… :teehee:
Right now I have one container in the computer room… has 3 pull out drawers… and one closet in the computer room is stacked full of knitting books/scraps of yarn/you name it I got it in that closet… it has great shelves though that hold all my yarn… I basically knit in the living room so there are books in shelves in there… a bag hidden in there… the play room’s closet is stacked with fabric and quilt stuff… the basement has containers filled with drawing stuff and airbrush equipment… the garage has containers… :teehee: oh and under the play room bed is 3 huge containers full of floss, ribbon, you name it… I’m kinda a craft junkie… although since I started knitting I haven’t had time for the rest… 
I am sooooo lucky - I do have a craft room.
My husband works from home- he uses the extra bedroom for his office. Until last summer we shared the office…my craft stuff and his computers. As his workload grew, he needed more and more computers (and networks and stuff) so we finished part of the basement and made a craft room for me and a “theatre room”.
I got to plan my room. It is a fairly large room, but I also share it with the bookcases (one of which is built in). I have a six foot table, and 9 large cabinets along the wall. I painted it a light periwinkle blue with sheer white beaded curtains. There are two large windows, so even though it is the “basement” I get plenty of light. The light fixtures are florescent. I just need to clean out the cabinets to make room for my growing stash. I will soon be selling quilt fabric, beads and scrapbooking stuff on ebay!!
I have a craft room! When we moved into this house there was one too many rooms and had no idea what to do with it. Instead of making it into an extra bedroom, we made it into a craft room. That’s where we keep all our art supplies, sewing machine and stuff, and of course our knitting things. It even has a nice walk in closet to store everything. We have set up tables in the room so I can sit down and enjoy my time. 
i guess i should be thankful, we’re lucky i guess xxx
Does the spare bedroom count? Whenever we have new crafts stuff and don’t know what to do with it, we dump it on the bed in the spare bedroom. This often poses a problem when people come to visit… :teehee:
I specifically got a 2 bedroom apartment so one of the bedrooms would be my office/yarn room. I just purchased a loft bed (like a bunk bed but just the top bunk) so my craft area isn’t disrupted by a guest bed 
Thank god yes I do…but trouble is it is spilling out of that room finding it way to the next them up the steps into a basket right next to the pc.
Oh and I have an armoir filled with yarn in the living room. lol lol
So how about a craft house. lol
mine contains a bit of everything, fabric, ribbons, yarns, patterns, hooks, needles, looms,dyes, soap making tools and supplies, machines, gadgets…whatever I need when the mood strikes.
I wish i had!!! We rent a one-bedroom apartment of about 40 sq.m. (really small), i feel that in the US people don’t know that kind of small apartments exist :teehee: And we have a large dog and two cats, so my crafts are all stucked all over. The sewing machine is on a shelf, with my yarn stash and my fabric stash is in the extra closet. So i work mainly in the living room and the current project is there, hidden from the pussycats To have your own house is really a big deal and expensive here (unless you want to live in an agricultural area and be unemployed :shrug: ), so my own craft room is a dream :teehee: Besides, we’re always need more craft space, since my hubby is a huge diecast models fan (so am i)…
I live in a dorm, so my craft room is the space under my loft bed. I rearranged my room so that my dresser is under my bed and my desk is beside it and it creates this nice little cubby. My goldfish live on top of my yarn boxes (and the yarn lives in, around, and over the yarn boxes and dresser). My fabric lives in the closet.
At home I have a huge tub full of craft stuff.
And a drawer and a shelf of art supplies downstairs.
And my pencils (I draw in graphite) are in my bottom drawer at school usually though atm they’re over by my backpack.
My mom encourages creativity so we don’t have a craft room, we just have the front closet (where most people keep their shoes and coats… our shoes and coats are in the front closet); the desk downstairs, most of mom’s closet, the cupboard above the stove, and the coffee table in the computer room. And the space under the computer desk. Also, my dad does woodworking, so we have a few things out in the garage.
Now that we have a happy “empty nest” I have a few spare rooms. For the past year and a half I’ve had my own sewing room. In it I have my sewing machine on one side and my embroidery machine on another. I have a wonderful leather rolling chair so I can roll from one machine to the other. :happydance:
I have the closet with the doors off so I can store and see my “things” in there and I have a nice open armoire where I store most of my yarns. I have clear drawers with my fabric stash in them so I can easily tell which color fabric is stored where. There is a nice cutting table in there also for when I am cutting fabrics to make Quilts. 
I am slowly out growing this room tho. There is another spare bedroom right next to this one. We have a threadmill in there and I think I will need part of that room for more “storage” for my fabric stash and my yarn stash.
I use to sew all the time in my dining room. I use to dislike it so much when I had to pack all my stuff up and clear off the table so we could eat if we had guest coming over or for the holidays. So I know what its like to use the dining room table. I say its better than nothing. But HANG IN THERE…if you get an empty nest you’ll have plenty of spare rooms to store your goodies. :cheering:
Last year we bought a duplex (half a house). It’s quite small, so there’s no room for a craft room in the house. However, we also have a small “granny apartment” attached to our carport (next to the house). It’s a tiny little house with one room middle-sized room downstairs, a very steep & narrow set of steps to another room upstairs and two very small rooms off the back. It needs alot of work, but when we have the spare cash we plan on fixing it up. More than likely we will install a guest bathroom/laundry room in the smallest room (which has all the water fixtures), a guest room, and then some kind of hobby room. We use one of the two small rooms as a storage area for our business. I’m looking forward to having it fixed up, although it’ll be several years before we can even start thinking about it.
I’ve got an ottoman in my lounge where most of my stash is and a corner where I have my sewing box and a box with my current projects and bits and bobs.
my husband was just telling me this week that I need to have a chest[size=1] (the storage kind, not boobs)[/size] for keeping my knitting stuff in downstairs. I have a place for it up in the spare room, but it slowly trickles downstairs
No, I do not have a craft room. Unless you count the livingroom… which I guess IS my craft room, it just has a sofa, entertainment system, and other people in it. :!!!:
I’m waiting for my eldest to move out so I can take over his room and his two built in bookshelf cases. But he’s only 15. I have a bit of a wait yet. Is that wrong? :teehee:
A quilting friend of mine (older lady & well off… they live on a golf course) built her house AROUND her craft room. No kidding. They built an upstairs loft craft area that is totally open on one side (like a balcony) that overlooks the livingroom. On the other side, there are large windows that look out over the front yard. She also has a spare bedroom and bathroom up there. But that’s all that’s upstairs. How cool is that??? I was IN LOVE with her house. SIGH
we built a small craft room into part of the basement. I have my sewing stuff, scrabooking stuff and yarn down there. But honestly, I keep my most current projects upstairs in my office or in the bedroon where I do a lot of the knitting… and there’s a pile of freshly wound yarn in the living room b/c it looks so pretty!
I have tons of shelves in the craft room, and I have a couple rolling carts with plastic bins to try and keep the yarn organized and dust free. I have a high table, but to me it isn’t quite big enough to really spread out and work- but it was what was available at the time.
I need to add some sort of flat space for cutting out sewing fabric and laying out patterns, but I’m still working on that.
My daughters toys share some of the shelf space so that her stuff isn’t all over the basement… She loves to be creative so I have an old armoire filled with stuff she can play with- paper, glitter, pipe cleaners, pompoms, glue, paint, play-doh, etc etc…
The floor is some kind of laminate, so messes aren’t too hard to clean up. My only issue with the room is that there are no windows, so sometimes the colors end up “wrong” to me. I’m thinking of getting an Ott lite for down there the next time they are on sale.
Anyways- enough rambling, Happy knitting!
Oh don’t worry some people in the US have very small appartments. :teehee: Same in Canada! I’m in a one-bedroom appartment too :pout: My boyfriend and I both have computers and I have a piano. So… my yarn is under the couch in little baskets, it’s the only place I can put it. :shrug:
I do, but it’s small so it’s more of a closet. I keep all my “stuff” in there, but I don’t work in it.
Here’s one side.
And here’s the other with the shrank I showed before.
The steamer kind of sticks out like a sore thumb, but I absolutely love how well it works!
We didn’t use our dining room, well, ever…so we took out the table and installed “floating” shelves in the room. We also moved a large island in and pushed it up against the wall.
The room is our studio space now…not just knitting supplies, but my paints, chalks, charcoal, sketch pads, ribbons, beads, glue gun, canvases…and then all of my daughter’s craft supplies as well.
We put one of the floating shelves at waist level for her, and pushed a little chair up to it…so she has a “desk” space. She has a cubby system right next to her desk that holds her clay, playdough, finger paints, crayons, markers, colored pencils, puzzles, games, etc, etc.
The room has the best light in the house, so we love 
having it set aside for our “projects”. I keep the majority of my yarn in a large lined basked on a shelf, or in the deep cabinet inside the island.
Misty
Oh don’t worry some people in the US have very small appartments. :teehee: Same in Canada! I’m in a one-bedroom appartment too :pout: My boyfriend and I both have computers and I have a piano. So… my yarn is under the couch in little baskets, it’s the only place I can put it. :shrug:[/quote]
Oh 
Someone knows how i feel… we have a computer and three open sets of shelves with my hubby’s models… I think i could even manage a piano there :roflhard: And my pets would have to live in it 
Plus i have a degree in literature and linguistics, so my books compete with the yarn and the fabric :??