I tell ya…that Craft Room has been a LONG time coming. I started embroidery, needlepoint and sewing when I was a young girl, so I have lots of fabric, patterns and stuff for those crafts.
Then I started doing crochet and cross stitch in high school. So, there was yarn, cross stitch books and more embroidery floss to add to the stack.
THEN I learned to knit! The rest was history.
Before I made the craft room, my stuff was in boxes all over the house. My husband and I decided that I needed a space for it all, so we sacrificed one bedroom in our 3 bedroom house. I took out all the furniture, painted it, and then set it up, using odd pieces of furniture I already had.
I used an old entertainment center for storing fabric and yarn. Then I put my spinning wheel on top of that, along with a cedar box for wool. Then I brought in the two tower bookcases my stepdad made in his woodshop. I keep my spinning fibers, various art supplies, embroidery kits, and needlepoint kits in those. I kept the chest of drawers in the room, and put the TV, DVD, VCR and Gamecube on top of that. Then I took the desktop from an old desk, and balanced it on top of three rolling carts for my sewing table. I keep my sewing supplies and my husband’s beading supplies in the rolling carts. (Yes, he makes neckaces!)
The only thing I bought was the large plastic storage bins, which I use for yarn storage. I have 8 separate drawers for different yarns - Cotton, Wool, Mohair, Acrylic (3 drawers), Chunky, and Baby Yarn. I also have boxes of yarn stacked up in the room, and baskets of projects all over the place.
My mother gave me the cutting table for my birthday. I keep it folded and stored behind my rocking chair until I need it.
Against the other wall, I have a corner desk unit with a computer, and my ironing board attached to the wall. Oh, and I made a cute door decoration so I can close the door if I want to be left alone! (I’ll post that photo later)
My craft room is my heaven on earth!
