A face lift for my sewing room!

Last week I decided to spend some time doing a major re-organization of my sewing room. I had project piles all over the place and it was making it hard to find the inspiration (or space) to work on anything!

So I sat down with pinterest and found some great inspiration. Then I researched on Ikea's website. Did you know you can click items onto a shopping list and print it out to take with you to the store?? That helped keep me on track in the store! 

I managed to get out of Ikea spending only $30! That was the maximum amount I wanted to spend on this project. In all truthfulness I spent about $35 if you include the screws, wall spacers, and the 2.5 gallon Ziploc bags. Still that's pretty awesome right?

I'm still on the look out for a clear hanging toiletry hanger (or some cheap clear vinyl to make one). But that can wait since most of my notions are well organized right now. 

I'm really proud of that tool rail! Wally helped me install it. I used the drill and everything (thankfully my BIL had a drill). The tool rail and magnet rail installed really easily. I highly recommend them! Did you notice that magnet rail? It's supposed to be used to hold knives... but now it holds my metal bobbins and the feet for my Juki! It's so quick and easy to switch things out now - no more sorting through that Ziploc full of unraveling bobbins! 

My drawers came back into the room. So far Allie has stayed away from it all - I'll have to be super careful with her though. She knows there's good stuff in there! The first couple nights I removed the rotary cutters and scissors from the rail before bed (just in case) but she has shown no interest in them so I'll cautiously leave them up for now. 

The one on the right was made with fusible fleece - it is the best one -- unfortunately
 I only had enough of it on hand for the one. The others have warm & natural inside.

I also hung some art and some minis. Some of my favorite mug rugs are on display on the side of my wardrobe. The scrap box is off the floor and now stored in these adorable fabric buckets I made. They came together so quickly... I followed this tutorial - but didn't hand sew them. I did it all by machine. They're a little rougher than if I had hand sewn them... but I got the job done. The buckets sort my scraps: warm, cool, neutral/interfacing. 

All my sewing machines are on the bottom of the wardrobe and the WIP's are hanging on pant hangers (again from Ikea). I used those 2.5 gallon zip bags for this. They're wonderful! I can have several blocks, and a stack of FQ's in there without a problem!

I'm pretty inspired by this whole setup. I haven't gone back to re-fold my stash and organize that (it's in one side of that little storage desk there. Yes that isn't a lot of fabric is it? Be sure to tell Wally that I need more. :) See why I work with teeny tiny piecing? My stash is teeny tiny! 

(linking up to Fabric Tuesday and WIP Wednesday)
As you can see in that last picture... not much progress has been made in those WIP's!! But I keep starting and finishing small side projects.