Welcome to the second issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, every day this week we’ll be featuring the inside of a famous craft designer’s craft room. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further ado, let’s explore our first featured craft room.
Today’s featured designer: Michael Sellick, The Crochet Crowd
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Craft Room Tips and Tricks:
My crafts are mostly yarn and I organize them by brands instead of colors. In projects, I usually don’t switch brands. My logic is that if I know all brands are in one slot and I don’t see a color I need, I know I need to replace it or think of something different. Many people have told me to organize by color but I can see my stash being ripped apart just to see if the colour bin actually has the brand I need. I also make sure I have a lot of yarn of different shades to ensure I got my basis covered, especially with scrap-ghans.
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I wish that I could see my yarn I have to store my yarn in bins that is rough. Thanks for sharing.
My dream craft room is having a full wall with a peg board to put the projects I have in the bags, that I haven’t had the money to finish yet.
On a different wall, maybe some hook rugs I have finished.
I have I china cabinet, I would like to use to store my yarn so I can see what I have and what I need to finish the projects, to sell.
I have a desk with a computer on it, to keep track of the projects I have done, I have to, and what I need to get to finish to sell to get more supplies to get more work done.
Idon’t have much money, so work is slow, but I love what I do, so I show people the projects I am working on and maybe they can buy them when they are done so I can more.
Thats great , a really wonderfull organation , I wish i as Organized , I swear i dont have a organized bone in my body ( wich brings my my mind to a picture of a x~ray with jumbled up bones and I would not be surpised if it WAS like that..lol ) but I had things messy in bins , boxes all messy … i got a bookcase one of the cheeper types ,like the clapbord (?)i think it’s called , or partical bord , they are about 20~35$ at stores like target/kmart etc …I’m sure you can find on at a yard sale or craigs list or it’s a type of item people put on thecurb becase maybe it’s missing a shelf. and the fact that you can move the selves around because there held in place with “pegs” and on the sides are the little holes so depending on your crafting you can take the last self out and have a large space thats taller to store somthng like , bolts of fabric , or rolls of wrapping papper. but make sure it’s the shelves are wide enought front to back , not just wide enough for books (unless you want to store your crafting books on it but that not creative and it’s pointlss to be explaining my best craft oranization tip/idea))It sould be deep enough to put a photo box they sell at the craft store on the shelf & it’s not hanging off the edge, then you can buy some photo boxes and on each self of my “craft”case I can store 6 3 side to side and 3 on top of eachother. the great thing about the photo boxes is that even u can’t see thu them , they have a little “pocket”and you can lable whats in them , I make jewerly and needle felting and sewing , and other things , so this works out pretty well right now i only have one book case , but it’s gotten allot , I can store my polmer clay , books and magazines on the same shelf as my boxes of clay , tools , the box with my pasta machine in it all in one place ! so it’s at least neat,and heck , if your items dont looks as pretty as all that gourgous colorfull yarn they are at least hidden if you just toss your beads,clay,scraps into one of the boxes … Also you can get thoes Hooks the type that have the adhesive back and put them all along the top , and then dependingon what you hang on them , you could place them ever 12in or what ever works for you ,I buy the litle fabric totes tht are small and hang thoes on there , and store pens , sissors , markers , ect .well thats just my tip , hope people find some inspration in it !!
Beautiful display…love it. Thanks for sharing.
I love it!!! I’m on my way to doing the same thing with my yarn. I bought 3 cubby organizers just for my yarn. Now, all I have to do is get it together and do it. My family teases me that I have so much yarn that I don’t even know what I have because it’s all in totes. Well, that is exactly why I want to do the cubby thing. I hope to get it completed soon.
I think thats a great idea. I have problems finding wool of the same brand and ply so this is a great way to do it. My husband would have a fit and does about how much wool I have as it is. You’re an inspiration to this Aussie woman. Happy Crafting. Meme
Very interesting concept, however, I use all brands of yarn for my crochet projects. I have large wooden clothes baskets to put my skeins of yarn in by color (some have 2-3 colors) easy to see how much yarn I have and if I need to purchase additional yarn for a project.
Nice to see another guy for a change!!
BRAVO!
Hi Micheal
My storage is in an attic near my new bathroom that is near my own bedroom and my brother’s old bedroom. I have wire crates that goes corner to corner and they are up on an real old desk that someone made for me or my brother. So I have the wire crates up on the old desk and my colors are in brand names also. I also have bins of baby yarn. The brand I don’t remember. I make prayers shawls with all my yarn. But I have so many balls of yarn. I also have them in bags on the floor and with the brands together. I am also trying to make squares for Warm Up America. Well I just wanted to tell you about my storage space. Sincerely yours Michelle A from Massachusetts
Great solution for yarn storage! I just adore YOU & Diva Dan, I haven’t missed a video tut{on YT}since I discovered your channel:))I am self taught in re:crochet hugely due in part thanks to YOU. You’re a fantastic teacher! Not to brag but I believe I am gettin’ pretty good;) Thanks Guys!>.<
I notice this is mounted on the wall. Did you use wall anchors, or did you have to find the wall studs and drill into them?
G’Morning Michael,
That was a nice picture of your yarn collection. I like the idea of sorting by brand rather than color as some colors, even though they look alike, are not exactely the same over the brand specter.
As for your collection, you have a long way to go to catch up with the collection that I have aquired. My companion says that I have enough yarn to make a blanket eight highway lanes wide from Houston to the moon! and with a few miles left over. I have three wall units like yours and many plastic totes around the room. The only problem I have is that I always am in need of another color to do my next projects.
Thanks for the picture.
Kat
I love it. I have done something similar but in the closet of our 3rd bedroom. I greatly underestimated the amount of yarn I have and only purchased one small set of shelves but at least I can see what yarn I have. The other problem is that I didn’t purchase shelves that had a back so I have to be careful not to lose yarn behing the shelves. Your idea is a better/improved version of my yarn storage so I’ll copy your idea in the future.
Having been storing my yarn in a similar way for years – I use the shoe cubbies
Michael your wall of yarn has more yarn than my local Walmart yarn department. I luv it. Oh to even have a part of it would be a dream come true.
Very nice. I recently organized my yarn in cubbies by color mostly. I stored cotton yarn in a cubbie, homespun and tweed stripes in another. When I ran out of cubbies, I used empty boxes on their sides with top flaps removed. I have a small storage cart with drawers where I keep cross stitch, embroidery floss, beads, thread, buttons and other assorted crafts. The smaller balls of yarn I stored together in an open basket in front of the cubbies. I have 3 knitting boards, assorted knitting needles and crochet hooks, scissors, measuring tapes and also pattern books stored in another basket. Nice to be able to see all that I have and have it ready to use.
looks great Michael,just wished I had THAT much space even ,but I dont..SO what I use for my yarn storage is the under the bed type shoe storage…its big enough even for the lb sized yarns and theres 18 spaces per unit….so I have several ‘bags’ and stack them on top of each other ( as the rooms too small to stand them up or I would!!)and in each ‘bag’ is the different yarn makers..so one’s for Bernat’s ones for Red Heart and so on….their clear on top so I can ‘see’ the colors…zippers shut for cleanliness and are easy to move around too…..soooo many cleaver ideas found on here!!and so happy to be a member !!hugz to you all!!
I would love to do this wall, but my craft room is in my finished basement and I am worried that spiders and rodents would just love to make a nest in all my good yarn. I have it in see-through bins, but it’s not easy getting to the yarn that I want, which is always in the bottom bin.