Office Chair Slipcover Tutorial

If you are thinking about making over your office, sewing or craft room, Amy at Positively Splendid has a wonderful tutorial to pretty up your office chair. Pull out your prettiest fabric and click on the photo above to get full instructions to make a beautiful slipcover for your chair.

Organizing - Craft Room Inspiration

Today I'm sharing some inspiration of some really nicely organized craft spaces.

From www.georgiapeachez.typepad.com

I found this one at www.sewmanyways.blogspot.com

This is a great scrapbooking space. www.home-designing.com

I love the pink and green. www.madebylova.wordpress.com

Hope this gives you a little inspiration.

Enjoy your day!!
Deena Davis
www.byyourhands.blogspot.com

Welcome To My Studio ---Sew Chic and Unique

Today's featured studio belongs to Mayya of Sew Chick and Unique.   Click on the pictures for a larger view.


Welcome to my sewing room.   This is what you see as you open the door.

Check out this carpet.  I LOVE the heart and it was made for me – bought it from Ikea

Turn to your left and you see my cutting table 

Lets us take a closer look of the cutting table shall we?

The table is actually not a table at all but  2 Ikea Lack bookcases placed on their sides!

above this i have 2 Ikea Lack shelves 

and right next to this is where i keep my fabrics, the bookcase with the glass shelves stores my non craft books

and the plastic drawers i keep my work in progress projects

Then there is a big window in the middle of the room

the same one you were faced with upon entering and to the right of that is the Expedit Bookcase which I LOVE

and on the other side of this is my office

I stenciled “Connect to the world” above my workstation 

Back to my workstation for a closer look

next to this another big window and my sewing machine

The L shape Galant ikea table is a great table for sewing on, plenty of space

So here is the before

and the after

I do hope you enjoyed this tour of my creative space

Thank you for stopping by

http://www.sewchicandunique.com

Sewing Room Organization - Pegboard

Today's organizational post is about the variety of uses for pegboard in a craft/sewing  room.

My sewing room is pretty small,  only 8 ft. by 10 ft.,  so I have had to make use of every available space.   This outside wall is block so very hard to attach anything to it.

I solved the problem of wasted space by putting a large piece of pegboard in this spot.
I painted it to match my wall paint,  attached it to the wood at the top of the wall and then had to decide how best to use the space.
I added a shelf,  hooked some covered baskets to the bottom and side and even found a spot for the basket holder that has been sitting on a table in my way for some time.

I decorated these baskets a long time ago so I don't know if they are still available but I will show some close up pictures of how they are put together.

For the fabric on the lid,  just cut a piece of cardboard the size of the middle of the lid and cover it with batting and fabric and glue it to the lid.  The front of the lid has 1/4 inch ribbon glued at the sides and then woven through to the middle and tied in a bow.

Weave 1/2 inch wide ribbon through the basket sides.   And the lid is tied to the basket in the back with three pieces of ribbon left a little bit loose so the lid will open and close and tied in a knot.  These baskets are just hooked over a couple of peghooks under the basket lip.

To give you more ideas for using pegboard in the craft room here are some that I found on the internet.  They make all kinds of tools for pegboard so the possibilities are endless for organization.  
This one is from The Blessed Nest blog

This one is used for stamping tools at  iStamp blog.

These next two were found on  Craftster.org

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed the post.
Bette Shaw