Do you have a craft room?

I do but I’m not a crafter, just a sewist. :wink: I learned to sew about 3 years ago (clothing, not into quilting) and since then my stash & machines had begun to grow and grow until hubby took the guest room as basically our server room and his office while I took his former office which is our sunroom. I have all 3 machines set up ready to sew, a cutting table, my ironing board and iron all ready to go. My yarn fits in here too (I also have the laptop in my sewing room) but I do most of my knitting in the backyard while the kiddos play or when I’m putting one of them to bed.

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 us too :slight_smile:
I keep my yarn in space saver bags (the kind that can be vaccumed into a flat rock hard pancake!). I also have a small ottoman with storage where I keep my WIPs.

I will! Right now it is our school room/my office. I have homeschooled the kids for the last three years. I am going back to work at the end of this month so in the fall the kids are going to go to school. This summer I plan on converting the office/schoolroom into a office/craft room! We are bringing much of the kids stuff down to the basement to make a play room there for them. We all win!!!

My hubby is ALWAYS building some sort of model. He goes through a couple of diecast models a year. Thanks to his model making skills we’re the envy of ever kid in the street due to the fact he built a life sized working Dalek. Yes that’s right I live with a Dalek!

I have my own craft room. I started in the box room with a table, chair and sewing machine. Now I have the bigger bedroom. (We’ve got a three bedroom house no kids). Dh now has the box room for his hobbies. So we are REALLY lucky. Shame the dalek doesn’t fit in ther though, he’s in the living room!

Here’s a photo of me in my craft room. It doesn’t show much more than me at my desks, but in here I’ve got my sewing machine, my overlocker, my embroidery machine, and a large flat bed industrial sewing machine, too! Plus, up all around the walls are shelves full of my collector’s dolls and other nice nick-knacks. The wardrobes in here are full of my patterns, fabrics and yarns, there’s also a bookcase in here (though I keep most of my fashion and knitting book collection downstairs) and I have room in here to cut out, iron, and even model and photograph the costumes I make!

Thanks to his model making skills we’re the envy of ever kid in the street due to the fact he built a life sized working Dalek. Yes that’s right I live with a Dalek!

I have my own craft room. I started in the box room with a table, chair and sewing machine. Now I have the bigger bedroom. (We’ve got a three bedroom house no kids). Dh now has the box room for his hobbies. So we are REALLY lucky. Shame the dalek doesn’t fit in ther though, he’s in the living room!

I can think of nothing cooler than to have a Dalek in my livingroom. I want one!!! :mrgreen:

I do not have a craft room. I would love to have one but my husband and myself are in a 2 bedroom apartment and 1 is for his home office. He works on computers alot from home and needs the space. I have a small space by the window in the living room. I set up a small shelve for my books and patterns. I have 2 plastic bins for projects. My favorite thing is from Ikea. I bought a hanging red organizer. Im not sure exactly what you would call it but it hangs from the ceiling and has 5 spots to put drawers. I skipped buying the drawers because they were expensive and I put my yarn in four of them. The fifth one the cat now owns to nap in while I work. xxx

I had a craft room (well, really house) but then I got a husband and now I have a room that my yarn and fabric share with his computer and oversized chair. My sewing table and machines have been moved to the finished basement. I am currently re-organizing my stash out of moving boxes and into clear tubs that will stack on shelves so that I can easily find what I am looking for…plus need to make room for some of hubby’s stuff and puppy proof the house.

I live in a fairly small apartment so right now my craft room is the corner of my living room. Quite cramped, but I dream of the day I can get my own house and have a real craft room where I can have my sewing machine, yarn, painting stuff, etc. Dream, dream, dream…

My dad’s been trying to sell our house since August, so I haven’t been able to start my craft room, but he said in our next house he will help me set one up. YAY!!!

I have a craft room. :slight_smile: First, my craft room was in a larger bedroom which wasn’t being used. It was pink and peach, and I bought curtains on eBay just to match.

Here I was, laying out a sewing pattern on my fold-away cutting table:

And here was my knitting chair:

Then, we needed the big room for storage, because we were emptying a storage unit we didn’t want to pay for anymore.

So, I moved my craft room to the smaller bedroom that used to be our storage room. The walls in there are blue, and it doesn’t look bad.

My knitting books and magazines are all in one bookcase, with my knitting needles stored on top.

My yarn is stored in big plastic drawers that pull out from the storage unit, and my computer just fits in the corner by the closet.

The bad part is that my spinning wheel no longer fits in the craft room. The good part is that the spinning wheel looks GREAT in our living room!

mmm He gets in the way when you’re vacuming and doesn’t lif a finger to help around the house! :teehee:

If you fancy a look at him visit;

http://www.richardwho.com/collectors/MikeBull/

I’m proud of him really, and it’s actually suprisingly fun scaring the s**t out the children when they visit!

[color=darkblue]I have my own hobby room plus I use part of my bedroom for my machine knitting section. :slight_smile:
Susie
My Janome 300E embroidery section:

Cutting area:

Sewing with my Janome 6500 section:

My area of the bedroom for machine knitting:

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Those fabric bowls you have made are beautiful. My Step-mum wants me to make her one of those, but they look too complicated to me. I have an embrodiery machine. (It was my Nan’s she gave it to me when she went into a home) I’ve not used it, I’m too scared! :teehee:

mmm He gets in the way when you’re vacuming and doesn’t lif a finger to help around the house! :teehee:

If you fancy a look at him visit;

http://www.richardwho.com/collectors/MikeBull/

I’m proud of him really, and it’s actually suprisingly fun scaring the s**t out the children when they visit![/quote]

Fabby!! :mrgreen:

Fabric bowls are real easy. You use just a sewing machine with a zig zag stitch. :slight_smile:
You can do them,
Susie

I want a Dalek! Well, no, I guess it would eliminate my yarn space. :thinking: I have an antique chest that I keep my yarn in. The needles have been in a bucket and I need to do something to organize them. And my most recent yarn purchase, for two sweaters, has exceeded chest capacity. :oops: It sits in the living room, next to the stairs.

Then the sewing machine is in a corner of the dining room along with boxes of fabric/patterns. I wish I had an armoire to put it in. I wish I had space for a cutting table. I should sew something once in awhile. :teehee:

You ladies with the sewing /craft rooms are lucky.
Maybee one day I can also have my sewing machine , knitting and other stuff in one room and within easy reach.
I have almost stoped sewing since it is hasle to get the sewing machine from the basement. and take up the dining room to sew. :pout:

AnaK, you’re very lucky to have a basement!!! :teehee: :hug:

Nobones wrote:
debinoz wrote:
I can think of nothing cooler than to have a Dalek in my livingroom. I want one!!!

mmm He gets in the way when you’re vacuming and doesn’t lif a finger to help around the house!

If you fancy a look at him visit;

http://www.richardwho.com/collectors/MikeBull/

I’m proud of him really, and it’s actually suprisingly fun scaring the s**t out the children when they visit

How cool is that!?! I bookmarked to to show my 15yo. He thinks they’re awsome. (Although he was disappointed in “Daleks” because he wanted it to blast the crap out of Rose, but instead it went all emotional and self destructed.)