Originally Posted by pieces
So where do you quilt? It looks as though there is more coming in than going out. I think you are brave to show these pictures. Because I could never quilt in a cluttered room like this. Maybe I'm just a neat freak. I believe a place for everything and everything in its place. If I don't have a place for it, I don't buy it. My sewing room is a small bedroom and I don't buy fabric as long as my shelves are full. Making quilts uses up my stash, when my stash gets low I plan quilts to make, then I buy more fabric.
Personally I think you need to de-clutter, sell or give away a lot
of your clutter, aparantly you don't need it or you would have used it in a quilt by know. By the posts here at the QB it looks as though people let this hobby get out of control.
How can a quilter choose fabrics for a quilt in a cluttered room with fabric that is not organized. I want to see 'all' my fabric at a glance when I begin a quilt. I do not want to have to dig through piles of fabric, or go through containers looking for fabric. And I don't want to run to the quilt shop to buy fabric everytime I start a quilt. These are just my opinions and I am not pointing fingers at anyone. I do belive organization to any hobby is important.
if you only KNEW me you would know that everything DOES have its place...take a closer look at those shelves...one for Christmas/holiday, one for prints organized by kids, all overs, marbles, and smaller cuts of misc., one for batiks, etc, etc, all quilts/kits are kept together always! All my fat quarters are stored in open tubs on shelves and are sorted by type, Thimbleberries, batiks, holidays, tone on tone, prints, the only exceptions are my massive CW and 1930's collections! They have their own storage areas!
It looks like a mess, because I also teach girl scouts and kids at the YWCA to sew, so I am always pulling things out and then not getting them put back before I have to dig something else out!
I sew for a local hospice for children and people GIVE me stuff for those quilts! Which will no longer come into that room, but stay out in the garage until I cut it up into kits to hand out to others to sew!
I need to organize my TIME more than sewing room!
Judge not, for I don't look into your fridge or cupboards!
sewing area now has a 2nd cabinet for thread at the left side.
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