New Sewing Room Set Up

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Updated 08/05/25.

Entering sewing room from my living room.

Closet to the right stores all my 18" doll clothes making items - sewing patterns, notions, buttons, lace, trim, etc. Also stores zip lock baggies of DMC thread inventory. Redid q-snap frame storage unit. Went from plastic to mesh. Organized the pieces better. Cabinet between the two closet doors holds my beads for scissor and zipper fobs. White basket holds cross stitch projects I want to stitch in various stages of being kitted up. 

Closet on the left houses my fabric for sewing quilts, project bags, grime guards and 18" doll clothes along with my cross stitch 28 count evenweave fabric. Pegboard has quilting related templates and rulers.

I went through all my magazines and books, leaflets, kits, etc. and downsized to one bookcase only. Top of bookcase and first shelf is for cross stitch. Second shelf is for my 18" doll clothes patterns. Third shelf is for quilting. Bottom two shelves holds my two favorite complete cross stitch magazine collections - Stoney Creek and Cross Country Stitching.

The printer stand keeps my supplies for printing quilt block patterns and to make working copies of cross stitch charts.

This is my cutting station. 

Items on top of table are current sewing machine projects and a stack of printed quilt block patterns that I need to put in vinyl sleeves then into 3-ring notebooks. 

The IKEA cabinet under the table holds all my smaller sized quilting rulers, rotary cutter blades, paper quilting templates, etc. The unit next to the table holds tools and accessories I use when sewing quilt squares. I can roll this closer to my sewing machine and trim as I construct the blocks. 

Foam core used for framing or ornaments rests along the wall. The white cabinet next to my sewing machine holds additional sewing machine related items that sewing cabinet doesn't have room for - needles, pins, clips, sewing machine pressure feet, etc. 

This wall is my pressing area. 

Shorter white cabinet holds all my serger related items. Manuals, tools and thread cones. The taller white cabinet holds cross stitch related items. The small plastic drawer unit holds DMC thread from completed projects ready to be filed back in its respective place. The white basket holds grime guards and felt pieces that I use with my q-snap frames. The tall cabinet has a complete DMC thread collection. The boxes on top hold left over DMC thread from completed projects organized into zip lock baggies by number.

In front of the two cabinets is a metal stand that I use for pressing. I have room to move the pressing table closer to my sewing machine cabinet when I sew. The three drawer plastic unit holds scraps for crumb and scrappy quilt blocks. I plan to go through the drawers and cut the scraps (if able to) into 2-1/2" strips or squares and 5" blocks. Very small pieces will be used for leaders and enders when machine sewing and applique quilt block projects. Next to the door is my Janome sewing machine I take to quilt guild meetings.

Tiggy's favorite spot in the apartment is this window. He enjoys watching the birds and activity in the back parking lot.