when the dust is flying it's time to clean!
 

Since I'm one of those quilters who always has 3-5 projects going at any one time, I'm not one of those quilters who, after each finish, cleans their sewing room! Yesterday I spent the afternoon working in my sewing room and despite the cool temps, I did have on the ceiling fan. When I was shutting the door to go downstairs for dinner, it looked like a dust cloud in there! And then my DH asked if I had a sore throat cause I was rather hoarse. So this morning after church I came home and dusted and moped the floors. Wow--I'm embarrassed! The blades of the ceiling fan were filthy and the dust bunnies were breeding!

So my question--those of you that work like I do with several projects in progress, what kind of cleaning schedule do you keep and how do you do it with stuff spread out?

I'm not familiar with that word!

beside household dust, if you don't prewash your fabric you are also drawing in a lot of chemicals. I used to part out quilters estates on ebay, and I learned early on the profit on stashes wasn't worth the breathing problems working with the fabric gave me.

You might also consider having a duct cleaner service in. This house had never had it done until 2 years ago, and it did help a lot. Then we turned around and put in a new bathroom. Still dealing with sheetrock dust :)

I pulled out all of my scraps and started cutting them into strips. I have been sewing the strips together and cutting into 8" squares. I will then sew them into quilts for kids being removed from their homes. I am giving the rest of my scraps to my Daughter who loves working with them.

When all of that is done and gone I will vaccum and clean up my sewing room. I use to clean after each quilt. I will start doing that again.

Cleaning???

I have to admit I'm not much for cleaning. LOL

I thought cleaning was something you did ONLY when company was coming! :)

After every major project is finished I'll pull out the vacumn and get the floors cleaned up as I tend to throw my tails and snippets on the floor. I really do try to hit the trash bin but they rarely ever make it. Lousy aim I guess. I keep each project I'm working on at a different corner of the cutting table which is 4 x 8 so I don't get them mixed up or cut into their fabrics. If its a long drawn out project I tend to keep them in a plastic bin so keep them tidy.

As to dusting which I hate the most, I'll pull out the swiffer dust thingie and give it a whirl as I hate dust more and I'm in the basement so it gets dustier down here it seems.

Same here. ;) Although I did do a bit of organizing this weekend. I've decided to tackle it in bits and pieces since doing it all at once would be too overwhelming for me physically.