The Extra Room

Our home only has 3 bedrooms. 

I say "only" like that's such a small number, but it was when we have two kids and sometimes other people living with us.  We started using our lofts (which we have 2 of) as bedrooms too.

When finally it was down to just me and my husband and my son about once a month, we've started enjoying the extra rooms.  Keeping our bedroom in the loft opened up the actual bedrooms for other things.  The main bedroom was turned into a music/office room for my husband and the smaller empty bedroom was originally a storage room, but I'm slowly transforming it.

We literally could not walk in this room after two deaths in the family and lots of their furniture coming to our house.  Slowly I've gone through and moved it around or gotten rid of it and now it is my office/workspace/craft storage room. 

I like to see my supplies because that reminds me that I have them and can do something with them.  Seeing my supplies actually motivates and inspires me.

Since I have wood walls, hammer and nails are my friends!  I just hope my husband doesn't look too closely at how I've got all that thread on the wall.

 All of my crochet thread had been in a plastic container in about 3 places.  I pulled it all out, balled the small pieces and hung the thread on the wall and stored the yarn on the shelf with my paints.  All three machines are in working order, so whenever there are several of us working, we have a go to place.  The shelf with the notebooks are actually scrapbooks where I cut things out of magazines and then put them in plastic sleeves.  I'm trying to get these organized into some type of pattern style collections (one with all applique, beginner quilts, advanced quilts...stuff like that).

 I also hang my scissors where it's easy to find them along with templates.  This is one of my material stashes, which you can see is overflowing.

 So of course I went and bought some more!

 Along with some small pieces of furniture still stored in the room, I also have all my quilts and items for sale stored, ready to be shipped out to future buyers.

 The magazine stash I inherited from my grandmother!  As I go through these, I tear out the patterns I like and move them to the scrap books.  I know, I can feel some of you cringing at the thought of tearing up these magazines, but I just have to get them out of here so that I can bring more in!!!

 The closet is the Christmas storage space with room for batting storage.  I've measured all these and labeled them so that it's easy to find pieces for small projects.

 Another view of my stash basket. 

This is my main fabric stash...a converted bookshelf.  As you can tell, the material and the books are fighting for space.  I'm afraid the fabric is about to win!  My project over the next few days is to eliminate most of the books on this shelf.  I know, that just about breaks my heart, but I'm not reading this type of books as much as I once was, so it's time for them to go.

How do you store your fabric and what does your workspace look like?