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    Home » Crafts

    How to make a peg board for your craft or sewing room

    Updated: Mar 12, 2017 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 7 Comments

    Today I am participating in a fun Blog tour designed to give you guys loads of fun and creative ideas to organize your creative space.

    For my stop on the tour I’m sharing with you how to make a peg board organizer. I have one in my sewing room  that I use to store my quilt rulers, and absolutely love it! If you would like to see more photos of my craft and sewing space; you can do so by clicking here for part 1; and here for part 2 of my craft room tour.

    Learn how to make a peg board. Perfect solution for sewing or craft room storage. A great idea to organize your quilt rulers!

    25+ Beautiful Craft Rooms + Workspaces

    A couple of years ago I moved my sewing and crafting space from a spare room in our basement to the bonus room above our garage. I debated about moving to the bonus room for a couple of reasons (aside from the daunting task of carrying a million pounds of fabric up 3 flights of stairs) Even though the bonus room was a  much larger space, it didn’t have any widows (it now has skylights) and the ceilings are vaulted, leaving me very little wall space to organize supplies.

    I eventually outgrew the room in the basement and ended up moving upstairs. After I moved everything up stairs, I knew I needed to figure out a way to make the best use of the limited wall space. 

    I had an empty space on the wall between my sewing table and my cutting table and decided that would be a great space to hang a peg board.

    Learn how to make a peg board. Perfect solution for sewing or craft room storage. A great idea to organize your quilt rulers!

    (here you can see where the peg board sits in relation to my sewing table)

    Learn how to make a peg board. Perfect solution for sewing or craft room storage. A great idea to organize your quilt rulers!

    Today I’m going to share with you how we (and by we, I mean my husband, as he did most of the work) created and hung the peg board.

    If you’d like to make your own you’ll need:

    Peg Board – purchase from a home improvement store. I bought wood so that I could paint it, we will talk more about the size of the board later.

    1 x 1 wood boards

    Finishing Nails -not longer than 1″

    Wood Glue

    Wood Screws (longer than 1 ½″)

    Drywall Anchors

    Paint

    Hand Saw (You do not need an electric saw)

    Drill

    Before we get started, let me tell you that before we got started I had a “plan” to do this and it was all wrong. I was just going to hang the peg board on the wall, seemed easy enough to me. Then my husband pointed out that if I did that then I could not USE the peg board.

    The board has to sit out from the wall in order to have space to insert the hangers into the peg board. DUH!

    To solve this problem, we decided to frame the back of the board with 1×1 strips of wood. It was really easy, and the 1×1 boards were easily cut with a hand saw.

    Okay, now let’s get started.

    First: measure the space that you would like to hang your peg board.  When you know the size that you want your board, go to the home improvement store and buy it. While you are at the store, but before you check out, have the store cut the board to size. Most stores will do this for free saving you the need to own a table saw. You still have to buy the whole board, but you can use the extra pieces for smaller projects.

    Second: Paint the board using a standard paint roller. You’re going to need 2-3 coats.  I recommend using satin or semi gloss paint, flat paint with show too many scuffs. For my board I just used wall paint. I ended up using about a pint of paint.

    Learn how to make a peg board. Perfect solution for sewing or craft room storage. A great idea to organize your quilt rulers!

    After the paint is dry, turn the board over cut two pieces of the 1×1 board to the same length as the top and bottom of the board. Apply the wood glue to one side of the 1×1 board and glue it to the wrong side of the peg board. Then using finishing nails, nail the 1×1 boards to the peg board, going thru the front of the board to the back of the board.  You only need 3 nails per board. If desired, “sink” the finishing nails and putty over them and paint. (I didn’t do this, it didn’t bother me to have the nails showing.

    Measure the other two sides of the peg board between the 1×1 boards. Cut two more 1×1 boards this size and attach to the peg board using the same method.

    Learn how to make a peg board. Perfect solution for sewing or craft room storage. A great idea to organize your quilt rulers!

    To hang the board on the wall, you need to find out where the studs are in your wall. You can use drywall anchors if you want, but since the peg board was a bit heavy I felt more comfortable screwing into the studs.

    After you have found the studs in your wall, mark those locations on the finished peg board. Then mark the location for a few more screws. You’ll want to use enough screws to anchor the board firmly to the wall (I recommend anchoring all 4 corners).

    We ended up hanging our peg board on the wall using 4 wood screws. Two were sunk into the studs and the other two were screwed into drywall anchors. (there ended up being a stud near the left edge of the board, which worked out perfectly).

    Learn how to make a peg board. Perfect solution for sewing or craft room storage. A great idea to organize your quilt rulers!

    The last step is to hang items on your board using peg board hangers (you can also get those at the hardware store).  I use my board to hang my quilt rulers and embroidery hoops. I kept them all in a box before and was always losing my rulers, this method has worked much better for me!

    If you want to take in some serious eye candy today, then click through to some of the other amazing craft spaces sharing during the blog tour!

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    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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    1. Jeanne Brown says

      March 13, 2017 at 3:24 pm

      Melissa great post. We put up peg board in my sewing room to hang the thread racks and rulers and embroidery hoops . They are wonderful. Also we (my husband and I) put them up not knowing they needed to go on another board to use the hooks, LOL. Thanks Jeanne

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    2. Tauni says

      March 13, 2017 at 3:49 pm

      Love it! Peg board really is such a great way to organize. Thanks for sharing as part of the blog hop.

      Reply
    3. Ivory says

      March 13, 2017 at 7:39 pm

      I am ready to turn a bedroom we have into an arts and craft room. I hope with your wonderful ideas I will soon be able to accomplish that.

      Reply
    4. Carolyn Lewis says

      March 14, 2017 at 12:33 am

      My husband made me a a peg board several years ago with a frame around it like you see on a picture frame. Love it. Mine peg board holds holds thread racks, scissors, rulers, extra needles, tape measures and other odds and ends.

      Reply
    5. Ivory says

      September 02, 2017 at 8:56 pm

      I love this post. Very helpful, thank you so much.

      Reply
    6. Christine says

      August 11, 2018 at 7:35 pm

      LOVE the desk chair!! Where’s it from?

      Reply
    7. debbi S says

      November 09, 2020 at 7:46 pm

      Great post. I’m using pegboard inside my craft room closet. Additionally, I will paint and also stencil it to jazz it up a bit. Thanks

      Reply

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