I hung my ribbon rack and started to bring some fabric into the sewing room when I realized that I have a serious issue with buying fabric. Why do I have so much fabric?! It’s insane!

Anyway, as I’m putting together this sewing room and trying to come up with attractive ways to store and display things and keep it practical so that I won’t need to go digging, I’ve come across a problem. The problem is zippers. I can’t think of a practical way to store them that keeps them accessible and neat and sorted. I know this blog doesn’t really get much traffic, at least not yet, so asking anyone out there for advice on organizing and storing zippers is probably pointless but all the same, if you’re out there and you’re reading this and you have some advice, please do share.

I’ve been Googling away trying to find a neat way to store my zippers but all I keep coming up with are sites telling me how to install a zipper or just general craft storage with no practical zipper storage advice to be found. It seems silly to make a fuss about storing zippers but I’d rather not throw them all in a little plastic container if I can help it.

Ah well, back to questioning my sanity as I sort through all this fabric. Sometime this week, once my money comes in, I’m going to buy shelves to install in the closet. I took the door off today and once the shelves are up I’ll start trying to organize all this fabric and hopefully keep it neat and accessible. I’ve seen so many great ideas for fabric storage but the ones I like best would require a bigger room than I’ve got so I’ll stick with stacks on shelves for now. Maybe I should invest in some fabric boards… If they weren’t so expensive I probably would!

Hopefully I’ll be able to get the table at the first of the week. I’m going to try and find a chair that has a seat that I can recover. I should finish cutting out the curtains too so that I can sew them up. I’ll need to buy a bar before I can hang them. Right now I’m looking at the mass of fabric that I’ve got and wondering how exactly to go about organizing it so I can easily see it and get to it.

I think it’s time to go look at some photos of craft rooms for some more inspiration!

I’ve also just discovered Design*Sponge. I’ve known about the site for some time but never really took the time to look through it. Here’s a little known fact about me, when I was young I thought I might like to be an interior designer.

It’s always been so frustrating for me to have all these decorating ideas but never the money to realize them. Slowly I’m starting to acquire nicer things. I want my sewing room to finally be a room that I’ve decorated and really made it look good. Something to be proud of. It’s exciting but more than anything I can’t wait to sit in there and get to sewing!

With school starting up again, the thought that I’m going to have little time to enjoy myself sewing is really starting to get me down.

The room is almost cleared out so I can start setting it up but the heat has made it incredibly hard to do anything. I was supposed to go visit my best friend this weekend but she decided to get really sick. Since this means I’ll be home instead of away yet again, I am hoping that the room will get done this weekend.

I still have to make curtains. I have them half cut out. It might be a good idea to make them before the quilt along starts huh?

I’ve decided to try and do the Fat Quarterly quilt along. Hopefully I can keep up with it. I’ve got about a week so I’m going to hustle and try to get the room ready and organized so that I feel comfortable starting a project like this.

I think I should make those curtains for my sewing room too! It’s good to be back home to my sewing!

These are the before photos. I was away last week and I’m going away for a week tomorrow so I won’t be able to start working towards “after” until I get back. I’m very excited.