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ONLINE EDITOR Cate Prato Designer and Extreme Makeover CREATIVE SERVICES DIVISION ART DIRECTOR Larissa Davis Home Edition host Ty Pennington o you have—or have PHOTOGRAPHER Larry Stein takes you on a tour of his home you ever thought about art studio, offering a peek inside Projects and information are for inspiration and having—an art studio or personal use only. Interweave Press LLC is not his strategies for art studio responsible for any liability arising from errors, dcraft studio where you can create, organization and inspiration. omissions, or mistakes contained in this eBook, and dream, and plan? A home art studio readers should proceed cautiously, especially with respect to technical information. where you can use all the studio One way to decorate your studio and organize your favorite Interweave Press LLC grants permission to photocopy decorating ideas you've been any patterns published in this issue for personal use collecting? inspiration pieces is to create only. wall collages. Linda Blinn offers In our new free eBook, Art Studio strategies for creating wall art Organization: Ideas and Projects collages with “Living with What You Where mixed -media for Storage, Design, and Decorating Love: Wall Collages and Personal Your Art Studios, you'll find craft artists come to play Museums.” organization ideas, art studio storage ideas, and art studio design Art Studio Organization: Ideas and tips from designers and the editors Projects for Storage, Design, and of STUDIOS magazine. Decorating Your Art Studios will give you the inspiration and practical First, let's talk studio organization. information you need to start Lindsey Murray interviews an creating an art studio haven where organization expert who explains you create with confidence! how to “Organize Your Studio Once and For All,” with studio Warmly, organization ideas for your home art studio. In “From Man Cave to Mom Cave,” nationally known designer Elaine Cate Prato Griffin explains how to make a Online Editor, home studio within your existing Cloth Paper Scissors Today square footage—and you don't clothpaperscissors.com have to be a mom! Elaine offers Art Studio Organization: Design and Decorating Your Art Studios clothpaperscissors.com ©Interweave Press LLC 2 organize your studio once and for all AN INTERView witH AUTHOR AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER CAROLYN WOODS BY Lindsey Murray any of we quilters cringe when we first walk into our studios. We m enter our studios to escape into our art, but instead of the relaxation or artistic inspiration that we are searching for, we find a mess. Enter Carolyn Woods, a professional organizer from Arizona, who has written the book that might just save all of us messy studio owners. In her bestselling book, ORGANIZING SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY QUILTER: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE SPACE OF YOUR DREAMS (C&T Publishing, 2011), Carolyn goes through the steps and the process of creating an organized quilting studio that will have you working on your art without the worry of losing scissors, stepping on needles, or misplacing that piece of fabric that you wanted to use. I was lucky enough to sit down with Carolyn and discuss her book and some general organizational tips. LM: How did you get into the bummed when someone paid for me organizational business? Have you always in the auction but never had me come been an organized person? over to do the work. I would still do that generous Rotarian’s closets for him. CW: I have no memories of messiness in Adapted from CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS STUDIOS® my mother’s house; neither her mess nor I got serious about turning my skills into Fall 2011 mine. I can still remember how neatly a business in the summer of 2003 after organized I kept my Legos and Barbies, I saw an events listing in the newspaper so these skills have definitely been with for a monthly meeting of the Arizona me for a long time. Even in high school, Professional Organizers Association. I I advertised myself as a closet organizer went to the meeting and was hooked. for a Rotary Club silent auction. I was These professional organizers, as they Art Studio Organization: Design and Decorating Your Art Studios clothpaperscissors.com ©Interweave Press LLC 3 called themselves, were like my soul few weeks, and I realized what a great they have that isn’t well organized. So sisters. That’s when I knew I needed to opportunity she had presented me with. choose somewhere—one little place— become a professional organizer. you need to improve. It can be a single I told part of this story in the beginning drawer, the bag you always take to When the television show Clean Sweep of the book. Early in 2009, I sat down with classes, or the whole closet. began in September 2003, I got even a notebook and wrote up a page I called more ideas for what kind of professional The Anatomy of a Quilt. I also read some Once you choose the problem spot to organizer I did and did not want to be. I online, A-Z glossaries of quilting terms tackle first, put your detective hat on, booked my first paying client under my to help me learn what quilting stuff is all pretend the stuff isn’t yours, and think LLC in January 2004. about. The stuff may be different, but good hard about why that area or group of organizing principles don’t change. That’s things isn’t working well. Solve the LM: Why a book on organizing a quilting when I called my sister to tell her that I’d problem. studio? already contacted some guilds to begin my You might have to remove everything CW: Owning about a dozen of my sister’s research and to say I’d do the project. and start from scratch by building back beautiful quilts, I should have seen it LM: If you could give our readers one tip your infrastructure (drawers, shelves, coming sooner. Since she works for C&T, to start organizing, what would it be? cubbies, boxes, etc.) to house what wasn’t she asked me if I would be interested in well organized before. Dedicate enough writing an organizing book for quilters. CW: My one tip is to pick a place to start. space to house that whole group of I said no. But she worked on me for a I bet your readers already know what things and then figure out how you can Art Studio Organization: Design and Decorating Your Art Studios clothpaperscissors.com ©Interweave Press LLC 4 best store that group so that it doesn’t get disorganized again. If you get stuck, then follow all of the steps I outline in chapter one of the book. LM: Do your methods for a quilting studio work for other artist studios as well? CW: Organizing is definitely not to make the organizing solution solve CW: Other artists and hobbyists may expensive. Most of your expense in your problem, then do it. Get organized, have beads or paints, or yarn or clay, getting organized is your own time. for good. in place of fabric and thread, so they When you designate a new home for may need smaller containers, more LM: As of June 1, 2011 you had the patterns or rulers or cutting tools, you portable totes or more sturdy shelves. number-one bestselling quilting book on are grouping them together and finding But the methods for organizing the Amazon. What’s next for you? a place for them to be located that is items are universal. Once you practice convenient and practical. How you store CW: I still have my local clients who the process a couple of times, you can them in that place is limited by your hire me to help them get their homes organize absolutely anywhere. You’ll be imagination, not by your budget. organized, and my base of remote reorganizing your pantry and master clients from all over the country is Give vases, jars, baskets, plant pots, food closet in no time. growing, thanks to the book. I will do containers or tea tins new life as quilting LM: Many of our readers have a tight more speaking engagements and guild studio containers. They can be temporary budget to organize their studio; does workshops while I start on the Carolyn or permanent, depending upon your organization have to be expensive? Woods signature line of organizing budget. That said, if you do need to invest Art Studio Organization: Design and Decorating Your Art Studios clothpaperscissors.com ©Interweave Press LLC 5 products. In between, I can squeeze in readers. If nothing else were to happen, do more baking and reading and some time to begin writing either one I’d have plenty of joy in my life from my running—to work off the baking.