My sewing area is also the computer room and where my DH drops everything on earth, so the room has to be multitasking....
- a (very) purple four drawer lateral file cabinet, found at a thrift store, top drawer holds family files, other three hold fabric
- assorted glass jars of various sizes for pencils to buttons
- lacquered chop stick for poking out corners
- unlacquered chop stick for moving fabric, stylus style
- old, again thrift store find, dining table, the kind with utensil drawers, for a sewing table
- wire shelved bakers rack at the wall end of the "sewing table" is great for the shelves, but, you can hang many things from it with "S" hooks, also can use chip clips to hang up blocks or notes or patterns
- several different sizes of tackle style boxes to hold notions and machine accessories. Have an old plastic one given to me by my Mom when I was in junior high, 100 years ago, which lost its little trays, and it is a perfect holder for patterns
- shoe boxes for storage
- I use a show box lid next to my sewing machine to lay down sizzors, extra bobbin, seam ripper, stitch savers, etc