how neat are you?
08-19-2010, 07:44 PM
#21
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Orig from PA; now living in EA WA
Posts: 778
I am so with you! I would like to be neater seems that thought vanishes when I'm in the middle of a project! Oh, I should say part of the mess is from the OTHER projects that are waiting their turn! And, when I do machine applique with tear away backing, watch out floor! The waste basket just never seems to catch it all!
Originally Posted by Fancy Nancy
i must say that i am a messy quilter. during a project i have fabric and notions all over the place and not good about putting things away until finished with project. cut threads end up on the floor along with a lot of dropped pins - i try to pick those pins up before running vacuum. thing is i have a waste basket right there for threads cut off but the floor seems to catch more.
08-19-2010, 07:53 PM
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Woodhaven, Michigan
Posts: 1,981
The floor in my sewing room is most often littered with lots of thread and little snippets of fabric. I don't know why the stuff doesn't make it to the waste basket.
I usually at least vacuum between projects.
My biggest problem is when I pull fabric out to "audition" it, I have a hard time forcing myself to refile it all back to it's proper place. That's why there's a big 3 foot pile of unsorted, unfolded fabric on the closet floor.
I usually at least vacuum between projects.
My biggest problem is when I pull fabric out to "audition" it, I have a hard time forcing myself to refile it all back to it's proper place. That's why there's a big 3 foot pile of unsorted, unfolded fabric on the closet floor.
08-19-2010, 07:58 PM
#23
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 10,357
I am fairly neat but I like to have things organised my way. Minimalist, never, there are always piles of books, decorative boxes (filled with current projects, quilting supplies and bits and pieces), vases and jugs filled with flowers, various sleeping fur-people...found objects...stones and birds nests, interesting sticks - all this is found around the main house. As for my half of the workroom, well... a tottering heap of bags and boxes. Boxes of fabric and clothes/jeans to be cut up..which I am whittling away..but I just bought more today...so I guess I'm in a spot of bother.
All I lack is a cute small person like Mary Quite Contrary!
All I lack is a cute small person like Mary Quite Contrary!
08-19-2010, 08:06 PM
#24
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 2,061
I generally have two or three projects in progress at a time and I have piles of stuff for each project here and there. It's never really neat but I do rearrange the piles occasionally. Right now I have a couple of table runners and two large candle mats going and since I use 2 1/2 inch squares sewed together for leaders and enders I have several piles of those handy, so it's not going to make the pages of Better Homes and Gardens. I do try to keep the scraps picked up but have a drift of UFO's against one wall. The leaders and enders will eventually become a "free" quilt as they are cut from my scraps.
08-19-2010, 08:55 PM
#28
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,329
I guess you could say I work well in organized chaos! I have a very small room to sew in along with a big stash. Right now I'm set up in the living room to have a space to do my machine quilting. I always have about at least 10 projects on the go! One thing I can say is that I never get bored, and thank goodness I have an understading husband I guess he's a keeper! :)
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