Shopping for My Sewing Room

Some time this cen­tury I am going to have a ded­ic­ated sew­ing room.   I say this cen­tury because life has a crazy way of get­ting in the way of the best laid plans and our ori­gin­al timeline has been delayed a bit.     I’m def­in­itely not com­plain­ing though.    The delay means that I’ve been able to find some time to shop around for some great sew­ing room accessor­ies, and the best part is that most of them were com­plete bargains!

I like things to be fairly neat and tidy so when I saw these cute Martha Stew­art Stor­age Boxes at Office­works recently I bought a couple.… then I went back and brought some more!   They’re a great size, not too big or too small and are per­fect for my wool felt sup­plies, zip­pers, tem­plate plastic and a whole bunch of oth­er things.

Anoth­er pur­chase I made a while ago was this little notions tag from Paper Boat Press.   These guys are only just up the road from me but it took see­ing some­thing on Ins­tagram to find out about them.    I popped the tag on a little jar I found at Wool­worths of all places and voila, I can always find my rotary cut­ter, pen­cils, HST line draw­ing ruler and hera mark­er.   And of course, it looks cute too!

OK so this one is a total just because its cute buy and def­in­itely can­’t be called a bar­gain, that being said the $120 price tag isn’t too bad.  I first saw this Yard Stick Stool while driv­ing  up the middle of NSW.  In a little town called West Wyalong there is a beau­ti­fully ren­ov­ated pub and they had one of these stool sit­ting beside a lounge chair so cus­tom­ers could pop their drinks on it.     I fell in love with it straight away and had to have one.  A slight detour via Tam­worth to 1825 Interi­ors and I was sor­ted.    It’s pretty darn ador­able don’t you think???   (If you’re in the vicin­ity of West Wyalong you should def­in­itely vis­it the pub, great food, great ser­vice and well worth a vis­it just to see the beau­ti­ful res­tor­a­tion work the own­ers have done).

And then, just this morn­ing, I popped down the road to grab some USB sticks (I know life is excit­ing around here!) and found these great sew­ing accessor­ies at Kmart.   Kmart isn’t usu­ally on my list for sew­ing sup­plies or dec­or­at­ing but they’ve def­in­itely changed the way they do things in recent times and I like it.    Just $20 got me both this white tray which will be per­fect for stack­ing cut fab­ric and trans­port­ing it to my sew­ing space, and the Bits & Bobs draw­er unit which will be great to hold smal­ler items.

If you’ve found great places to buy accessor­ies for your sew­ing or craft room I’d love to hear about them.

Until next time (hope­fully with some sew­ing from these gor­geous new bundles I’ve got recently),