I just took the vacuum out of my sewing closet last night. And they pretty much know not to go in and hog up my room. I do that well enough on my own. But you are right, it is like free space for them to put anything they want into. NOT!!!!

Touching my scissors!!!! I don't think so. They both know I WILL hurt them.

I am the only one who leaves everything all over the house - I have
two sewing machines on my sewing table and I can't even find the table!
And it's all stuff that is" too good to throw away" - and if I threw it away -
NO ONE WOULD MISS IT!!!!!!

My club had an auction. I brought in something that I kept moving from one place to another in the basement for YEARS! It was a
gift - and the pricetag was still on the bottom $35.00. It brought in
15 cents. I'm learning.....

Why does everyone do that? My sewing area is now taken up with everything my husband can't figure out to do with. My scissors are hidden (and I can relate to hiding them so well I can't find them), all my paint brushes are gone (he needed them for doing gun stock work, oh, and I hadn't used them recently so what am I complaining about, etc.). I tried to clean off his desk one time and never heard the end of it. I need to find one of his special tools (which were probably mine at one time) and hold them for ransom. No, he'd just be harder to live with. Oh, well.....

I wish you luck!!! LMBO Let us know if it works!!! :D :D :D

Oh, how I can relate to the need for ones own space for those sewing,crafty, quilty things we love to do (mine is a compulsion). When we moved here to Christmas, I took one extra bedroom as MINE! No one uses it but me (the Boobookitty guards the fabric). My other half does not put one toe over the threshold; one wonders is it fear of the unknown? :roll:
As to the scissors thing, sons and DH learned many years ago that touching them can lead to missing individuals, or possibly being sewn into something which returning from may not be possible......hehehehehe :twisted:
Each and everyone of us must stand up for our space, no matter how large it may be!! SKEAT stand up for your space, we'll back you, at least here on the board :lol:

I noticed a few weeks after I acquired my sewing room that everyone took the extra long walk upstairs down a long hallway just to deposit the stuff they didn't know what to do with and figured I would want it in there. I acted like a crazy person to put a stop to it, and no one has left another item anywhere near my sewing room since. . .Now if I could just get myself to stop brining so much in there. I keep finding great sewing treasures and organizers, and another ruler, or magazine, or book. And seriously, do I really need to print every free pattern that comes across my computer screen? I'll have to live to be 150 to get all of those quilts made. Probably be 95 before I get them into some oroganized system.

So good to hear I am not the only one in this situation...I have been thinking for a long time that this problem has gone on for generations!! I know of this and you do too if you have ever picked up a can of old buttons or an old sewing basket...for in it you find the usual thread, needles and all those marbles(you know we have no time to play marbles in the quilting threads or buttons!), 25cent vending eyeballs, etc and odd parts of toys....which tells you that person was sewing somewhere someone was doing something they weren't supp. to and it was taken away and put in a safe place...then they all forgot!!:)I think for me it started w/those cute pudgy fingers under the bathroom door...then things projectile under it to me....ha! I said...and, now they are getting older(even dh) and their items are getting larger or taller stacks....and, why is it we allowed it in the first place??This is MY space!!I like all the threats...I am memorizing them!:)I will use all verbal tactics to win this game!!:)I do hope you have enjoyed reading as much as I have...and, some of them are just plain funny...well, almost all!!:)Thanks for the support....who else can confess!! Skeat

if anyone were to put things in my sewing studio without me knowing it I would go balistic. I know have my space, and IT'S MINE.

I waited 51 years for this and I'm not giving it up. :)

""As to the scissors thing, sons and DH learned many years ago that touching them can lead to missing individuals, or possibly being sewn into something which returning from may not be possible......hehehehehe ""




I may have to try the sewing threat!! They seem to be scared of such things!!

The sewing room is the only room that is half-way decent. Had to ban DH and his disassembled computer parts in the beginning but now, all the cr-stuff in there is mine.