Sewing Room Pegboard
Use these Ikea Sewing Room Pegboard ideas to transform your craft room and give your sewing space a makeover. I love having a pegboard in my craft room, everything is easy to reach right in front of me!
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How to build a Sewing Room Ikea Pegboard for organisation ideas
Perfect organisation for all of your sewing tools and accessories. Storage space on the wall is often over looked and can be great way to utilise space in your home. If you have a hobby such as sewing or craft a pegboard can be the ideal way to store your cottons and scissors out of reach of children too.
What Accessories do I Need for my Ikea Sewing Room Pegboard?
There are many Accessories for your IKEA pegboard (SKÅDIS series), there are several accessories that can help you organise and maximize your sewing room space efficiently. Here are some great options to consider:
- Hooks – Ideal for hanging scissors, rotary cutters, rulers, thread spools, and small tools.
- Containers/Bins – Use these to store buttons, pins, bobbins, and small sewing supplies.
- Shelves – Perfect for holding fabric pieces, thread spools, or a small sewing machine.
- Clips – Handy for holding fabric swatches, patterns, or notes.
- Elastic Cord Straps – Great for keeping fabric rolls, or larger items like measuring tapes, neatly stored.
- Magnetic Strips – If you use needles, pins, or small metal tools, a magnetic strip will keep them easily accessible.
- Roll Holders – Great for holding rolls of ribbon, fabric, or tape.
What Else can I use a White Pegboard for?
Whether it is a pegboard for Sewing, Knitting, or even needle work. This Ikea white pegboard is the perfect organization for your Sewing room or Craft room and a useful way of utilising your craft space. This is the ultimate guide to organising your Skadis peg board and the low down on what each accessory can do to help you clear your space.
Check out this Craft room pegboard here!
The Ikea Skadis pegboards have a variety of different accessories to add to your board and make the most of your hobby space. The Skadis pegboard has hooks, pegboard containers, shelves, bungee clips as well as pegboard clips.
How to Hang an Ikea Pegboard
The Ikea pegboards are easy to hang and come with one strip to place across the top of the board. Insert the other two round headed white screws in to the bottom of the board to stop the board moving back against the wall. You can also hang pegboards with command strips however you must take in to account the weight you will be putting on the pegboard and distribute it evenly. Be sure to leave enough space between the bottom of the pegboard and the desk for things to hang freely.
I left 6 inches of space from the desk up to the pegboard.
Where can I use an Ikea Skadis Pegboard?
The Ikea Skadis pegboard is perfect for organising tools in many different places in the home. You can also use a pegboard in;
- Your kitchen
- Bathroom
- Utility room
- Childs room
- Teenagers room
- Garage
- Shed
- Craft room
- Home Office
- Hall
What accessories can be used and how on a Sewing Pegboard?
The great thing about the Ikea pegboard is the fact that it comes with so many different add on options. Ikea skadis containers, ikea skadis shelves, hooks, roll holders and bags. The list is endless but how do you make the most of the wall space and what do you use each piece of Ikea Skadis for?
To get an idea of how many Skadis pieces you need to purchase here are some ideas for their usage in a sewing room. This Ikea pegboard is set up for with my sewing machine on my sewing machine desk.
Thread Spool Holder for Sewing room Pegboard
Storing thread on a pegboard is easy with a wooden spool holder. I picked this spool thread holder up from Amazon and added two small hooks to the back so I could hang it on my pegboard. It stores 60 threads where I can see them and in easy reach. I added a couple of hooks to the back to hang it inform two pegboard hooks. Some do already come with them so take a look.
What can the Ikea Skadis Shelf be Used for in a Sewing Needle Room?
The Ikea Skadis shelf can be used for lots of craft items including;
- pin cushions
- bobbin case
- Craft tools
- Pots of buttons
- Plant pots for display
What can the Skadis Clips be Used for on a Pegboard?
The pegboard clips can be used for;
- zips
- patterns
- Notes
- pattern pieces
- fabric pieces
If you do not have any Ikea pegboard clips you can use bull dog clips on a hook. Ikea pegboard Hooks in the sewing room are also very versatile.
Ikea pegboard Hooks are so versatile they can be for;
- Hanging frames
- Pots
- Clocks
- Scissors
- Tools
- Rotary cutter
- Fabric square packs
- Tape measures
Skadis Storage Bag Uses
Use the Skadis storage bag to keep lots to things in place in your sewing space as well as;
- patterns
- Magazines
- Rulers
- tracing paper
- Large tool items
What can the Skadis roll holder be used for in a sewing room?
- Elastic reels
- Ribbon reels
- anything with a hook
- reels of cotton
- scissors
Ikea Container With lid Uses on the Pegboard
What can the Ikea Container with lid be used for in the sewing room?;
The Ikea Skadis containers with no lid, can be used for lots of craft items including;
- Pens
- hooks
- Pencils
- Tools
- scissors
- knitting needles
- crochet hooks
Uses for the Pegboard Letter Holder from Ikea
The Letter holder is really versatile in the craft room and you can also use it for;
- Sewing patterns
- Books
- Magazines
Long Hook sewing storage uses on Ikea Pegboard
The long hook from Ikea Skadis can also be used for;
- Sewing rulers
- Quilting squares
- Packets of sewing accessories
What can the Skadis elastic cord be used for?
Use the elastic cord for lightweight items such as;
- Sticky pads
- Loose pattern pieces
- Sewing patterns
- Pieces of fabric
What else can you hang on an Ikea pegboard?
Look for items with holes in that you can hook ok the pegboard such as;
- Metal pots
- Metal letters
- Hanging mirrors
- Hanging frames
How Many Accessories do I Need for the Skadis Pegboard in my Craft Room?
Buy the accessories according to how many pegboards you will need.
Ideally Two shelves, three containers, three lidded containers, two packs of hooks and one letter holder would fit on one Skadis pegboard.
Once you have decided how big your pegboard area is you can purchase different pegboard options to suit.
The only thing I could not purchase at this time were the Skadis containers. So I have instead opted for the time being to hang pots metal pots on my board with hooks. There are are also many other Ikea items that work well in the craft space.
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Love your creative space ! Can I please ask what hooks you used to add thread spool holder ? I have same and was thinking I could use cable ties lol ! Did you screw hooks to the thread holder first ?
Thank you for your time !
Thank you! I have used just the normal Ikea pegs fo that