Craft Room Makeover Continues!

Finally after a year of thinking about it I finished my makeover on my desk and dresser in my craft room. The room is  small and somewhat crowded with furniture  but I need the storage in the dresser for craft supplies and the desk is used for sewing.

Functionality is important but I also believe that beauty and enjoying where you work is important to0.

desk makeover

dresser makeover

My craft room is very colorful but the main colors are green yellow and white with a little orange for accents.

I love to make things with felt and use a lot of it for the quiet book pages I make. Here is an example of how I store it in the dresser :

Felt stash

What is your craft room like?

Vintage Craft Room Art

front cover

Still working on my craft room!  My daughter found this awesome embroidery stitch book at a reuse store for 25¢. What a find!  We decided to scan the pages and I made them into artwork for my craft room.

back cover...note price!

And in my room....

I love vintage things and having unique art work in my house so this was perfect for me. Thanks Janie!

Handmade Craft Room Storage

Not just a "book" sling!

There are a lot of different "book slings" (mostly for kids books) online. One of my favorites is this one  found :here

I wanted to try making one to hold my cutting mats and grid rulers in my craft room.

The main fabric I chose is called "Sew now! sew wow! "

from the Alexander Henry Fabric collection. The backing fabric is a heavyweight canvas like fabric for strength. The darker stripe showed through and made the novelty print look dull so I added a white lining. In the end I really liked the weight and strength of the sling.

TIP: For sewing straight seams it often helps to put a piece of tape on the machine to give you a more visible line.

I made one inch seams so I used a ruler to make sure my corner ended at one inch.

Sew around leaving an opening wide enough to turn the right side out.

Before turning cut the bulk out of the corners

I drew a line to show the seam line and how close to cut.

Turn the fabric right side out. Push out the corners with something narrow. I used a chopstick.

Press flat!

I topstitched all around to close the opening and give a nice finished edge.

Turn under 2 inches on each of the longer sides

 and sew for rod pocket.

As a finishing touch I glued buttons on all the dowel ends.

Mounted on the wall with brackets from Lowe's.

All finished!