Actually a clean sewing room is much easier to find things, I know I lose things all the time in mine. I wish I could keep a clean sewing room but alas the piles grow and I know what is in them but when I go to find things I can't! and boy how it has cost me! I misplaced a hand appliqued strip from a guild raffle quilt that was all finished could not find it so did a second one. When I cleaned my sewing room it was found in the pile I knew it was in but even though I looked through that pile 100 times I could not find it. Word to the wise work towards a clean and neat sewing room it is much more fun to work in. (I'm still working towards that day)