Old 01-30-2014, 08:04 AM
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Sewnoma
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Location: Sonoma County, CA
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I have one of those small plastic 3-drawer rolling carts to the right of my machine. In the bottom (large drawer) I keep little scraps that I use for leaders/enders. Next drawer up is stuff like tube turners, elastic pullers...mostly non-quilting sewing tools. Next drawer up is stuff for FMQ - my gloves, my fingertip thingies (which I never use), a roll of stencil paper (that gold stuff..can't remember the name). Also "spare" stuff - extra rotary blades and seam rippers mostly. Top drawer is usually left hanging open; that's where my bobbins go (one compartment for empty, one for filled), a compartment full of the hair bands I use on my bobbins, my various marking tools are here too (one compartment for erasables like mark-b-gone and chalk; another compartment for pigma pens), a small transparent ruler I use for marking sewing lines when joining binding, also spare pins.

On top, I have a tray that holds a wire basket full of my red clover clips (I love those things), an old beat up pewter mug to hold small scissors and snips, another mug full of regular pens and also a couple paintbrushes I use to clean my machine. I have two small bowls that I use to keep things like the end of whatever Aurifil thread is on the machine, the bobbins for whatever project I'm currently working on, etc.

And then there's a little crevice where my machine sinks into the table where I poke my bamboo stiletto so it's RIGHT there by my hand as I'm sewing.
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