Monday, February 1, 2010

Embroidered Peg Board & a look at my craft space

Over on CRAFT, we're just wrapping up one of our most fun and most popular series: Make Space For Crafting. During the last month, we've featured numerous craft spaces of some of our favorite crafty peeps as well as loads of tutorials and projects that are perfect for organizing your own craft space. I love that we've had spaces from tiny craft closets to vast, gorgeous studios, and projects that range from fast and easy to more elaborate. I highly recommend checking out the complete series archive.

I just posted up a peek inside my craft space last night. Mine's not completely finished - I still have some art to hang on the walls and a curtain to hang over my closet and roman shades to make/purchase/hang, but it's getting there, and I love it oh so much. Having my own space - especially since I work from home - is so important. I can go in there and really feel comfortable and inspired to work. Love that.

One of my favorite things in my craft space is my peg boards. Peg boards are one of the handiest organizational tools around, and I decided to gussy mine up with some embroidery with yarn. I love having over-sized embroidery stitches up on my wall.

Check out the piece and more pictures over on my Flickr stream. Do you have any favorite craft spaces to share? Any tips of your own? Let me know in the comments. Our main Make Space for Crafting series may be over, but with response as great as we've received, we're working on ways to keep it alive in some form.

11 comments :

  1. I love your crafting space. After Christmas, there are a lot of sales and I get inspired to organize some area of my house. I buy discount organization bins, drawers, files etc and organize like crazy until that area is done. This year I organized my various crafting spaces. I really love it and it gets me crafting again. I blogged about it here:
    http://tinascraftiness.blogspot.com/2010/01/crafting-spaces-and-organization.html

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  2. Love the peg board! Genius. What do you use as pegs for your thread. This is finally an inexpensive solution to thread organization that might work for me. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  3. Wow, a peg board is just a beautiful thing! Yours is inspiring. What is it about January that has us all reorganizing our play spaces???

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  4. Love looking at all the craft space photos and getting inspired by others great solutions. Love yours as well - the wall of Pez is very cool!

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  5. I should have known your crafty space would be so well organized! I can only dream of having a crafty space! I have lots of pukas here and there but no space to call my very own! So I have been lurking with serious space envy on CRAFT all month long!

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  6. Quite awesome. Crafting/sewing/knitting/etc IS easier when one is organized isn't it?

    How are those Pez displayed on your wall. That is completely cool!

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  7. the pez are adoooorable besides all you things so well organized... I'm just the opposite!!!

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  8. Love your crafting space! Can I link this to the DMC Blog? We are about to do a post about on organizing your craft space and this would be a perfect addition!

    - Emma Broidery

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  9. Awesome space! I love the Pez dispensers - very charming!

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  10. i love your little craft space! i totally can't wait to do mine over. sigh.

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