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Old 05-20-2011, 01:49 PM
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insgal62
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I sew at my dining room table. I started doing that because I liked to watch TV while sewing. I'm alone most of the time because DH works over 4 hours from home and only comes home on weekends and sometimes not even then as his dad is very ill. So it became a habit that is hard to break. My kids are grown and on their own and I have two spare bedrooms and a HUGE 2,200 sq ft basement of which half is finished and half is unfinished. I would love to get my DH to build out 1/2 of the unfinished section into a studio for me but I might as well be talking to a wall. So, I just stick to the dining room table and my fabric is stored in dresser drawers in the spare bedroom. My work space is constantly messy as when I am cutting up fabric for a quilt, I often don't put away leftover fabric pieces until the folded up piles topple off the table. My house is neat and tidy in every way. But my sewing space is a nightmare. How can I be so organized in every other aspect of my life, yet my sewing space is so disorganized? I really only clean it up if we are having a formal dinner party as all my friends know how much I quilt and they are used to all my quilting mess and the ironing board set up in the living room. But I have to say, I've seen the small spaces some of you have to work with and I'll just shut up and consider myself lucky. I'd post pictures but my DH has my camera.
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