Originally Posted by Linda Renfro
In the rest of my house it's fairly neat, other then dust and cobwebs (I'm saving those for decorations for Halloween)Now my clothing..that's another subject. I have what I can wear now, what I want to wear when I loose weight, and what I can't part with..so I need to work on that department, and my purse is a lost cause as my husband gives me half of his stuff to put in it!I keep saying I'm a work in progress. But my sewing room was out of hand and I needed help in trying to figure out what to do with all my goodies.
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I feel your PAIN....LOL
Oh my...what a thread! This is a HARD question.
Every time I get my sewing room somewhat under control I launch into a project and it looks like a bomb went off in it - AGAIN.
I have two tall cupboards (AND SOME TUBS) - I tried to sort by season and theme..that lasted about a year. I have one cupboard for stamping stuff, x-stitch and my craft paints.
Then.. I tried to sort using logic (what ever the heck THAT IS in a quilters mind) and I have SOME fabric stacks that are more for borders... and novelty fabrics for kids blankets... Christmas... Fall... spring.. well..... that worked for awhile too. I have been collecting paisleys for years... and I have a fetish for batiks.. so I was keeping those separate.
Now.. I think I need to go back to just sorting by color groups. I do great for awhile, but once I whack something up.. it's the lg scraps that get out of control. When I have under a half yard left of something it does not stack/fold like the larger pieces. So... it's jumbled.
ONE THING I finally did... and it's been working very WELL is to BUNDLE up the pattern with the fabrics I buy for said pattern. I tie the bag and actually mark it with "Baby Quilt for so and so".. or fabrics for this quilt.. or that quilt. I found that I was cutting up fabrics I had BOUGHT for certain other projects which was annoying me a LOT.
I had bought some gorgeous floral batik I wanted to make a jacket out of. LOVED IT... but.. one day I was working on something else and without even THINKING I spotted a perfect contrast fabric.. pulled it.. cut it up.. made a beautiful quilt (which I donated to a charity) only to realize I had whacked up the FABRIC I bought for my jacket. NOOO MORE of that.. now I bundle the pattern with the fabrics. So.. bagging has helped me a lot in this area.
Anyhow.. I've enjoyed reading the tips and comments in here. I don't think there IS any one correct answer. The status of my sewing room ebbs and flows like the ocean tides. In .. out.. tidy.. messy... tidy... disastrous.
I have VAULTED ceilings and my stuff goes CLEAR to the top of the wall...lol
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