Craft Closet Tour from Gwenny Penny

Today we have Gwen here to give us a tour of her awesome Craft Closet. Enjoy! -Linda

Hey, everybody! I’m Gwen, and I blog over at Gwenny Penny. I’m a full-time mom of two little girls, and I love sewing, crafting, and just about everything creative. I blog in order to make sure that I carve out some creative time just for me each week.

I’m happy to be sharing my creative space here on Linda’s blog today. Back in January, my husband and I remodeled one of our closets into my very own sewing space. I couldn’t be happier with it. It’s small, so I need to keep things picked up and put away, but it beats having to hall out the sewing machine and all of my supplies every time I want to work on a project. When we were making plans, I never imagined it would turn out this great…

I love it! Let me take you on a little tour of my sewing closet. The outer shelf cubbies  along the ceiling hold my craft, sewing, and decorating books. The two center cubbies hold boxes filled with buttons, elastic, glues, scrapbook paper, paints, glue guns, and paper punches. The very top shelf holds all of my pillow forms, polyfil, and baskets full of extra supplies. It’s kind of nice because that area is sort of hidden from view from outside the closet. Under the desktop are three rolling carts with drawers. This is where all of my fabric, interfacing, and batting reside.

This is the desktop area…

The jars on the desk are filled with ribbon, zippers, ric rac, Sharpies, glue sticks, pens, and pencils. I also have a little notepad cube and pin cushion. It normally is not this neat :) There are usually much bigger piles of fabric to the left, as well as whatever projects I’m currently working on.

My pegboard holds my scissors, rotary cutters, bias tape maker, rulers, embroidery hoops, twine, small spools of ribbon, a clipboard for jotting down ideas, and my little wooden palm tree (a year-round reminder of the beach).

Here’s the view to the left…

The little clothesline displays some of my oldest daughter’s artwork. I told her that this was the one space in the house that is entirely mine, but she still managed to weasel her way into my closet :)

Here’s a closer look at the decorations on the wall, including this old Hasbro Necchi Supernova toy sewing machine I found last fall…

… and my vintage Fisher Price Little People woman at her sewing machine. Love her…

I also have a framed printable that I really like. I found “Get Excited and Make Things” through Alissa at 33 Shades of Green. It’s a free printable from Pretty Procrastination which can be found here (in four different colors!).

I also have a ginormous button that I bought at JoAnn’s last fall, and two little embroidery hoops with pieces of some of my favorite Heather Ross fabrics in them. I made the “grow” embroidery hoop last spring, and there is a tutorial for that project on my blog.

And now the view to the right…

All of my thread is stored on the rack on the wall. The number 4 vintage marquee number was an Etsy purchase a while back. I also have my scrappy pin cushion and my log cabin mug rug that I made. And in the very back corner of the desktop is a little wooden box with drawers for storing more sewing tools. On top is this cute little metal sewing machine and some thimbles that I’ve had since I was little…

This is a great way to carve out your own creative space when you don’t have a lot of extra room in your home. If you are interested in making something like this in your home, check out my post on the build process. And if you have any questions, please feel free to email me. I’m certainly not an expert, but I can tell you what worked for us.

Thanks for checking out my sewing closet, and I hope you’ll come visit soon over at Gwenny Penny. I’d love for you to check out some of my favorite projects. Thanks so much for having me today, Linda!

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Linda
Hi! I'm Linda, the craft addict behind Craftaholics Anonymous®, a craft blog. Crafting is cheaper than therapy, right? When I'm not DIYing something, I can be found taxiing around our 4 crazy kids or working out. Or shoe shopping... because you can never have too many shoes! Happy crafting! ♥
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