pdolls

Love sewing in a sunroom too have an electric space heater for the winter but this summmer has been just to much I use felt for curtains and they double as design wall

SewSewGal

It took me two months to go throught all my patterns, fabric, stuff I had a large garage sale and was very pleased with my evert. THEN !!!! we had water in the basement not enough to do a lot of damage but enough to hsve to move everthing and let the carpet dry. Now my sewing room looks worse then it did. I have to bite the bullet and reorganize the mess. I have been sewing but stepping over a lot and using little apces. Like i said bite the bullet and do it.

SewSewGal

I use little spaces not apces

GailG

This is an awesome list. And if I use it as a checklist I fail it miserably.

crafter005

That's great and thanks for the offer. The only problem is whether I am near to La La Land! Just kidding.....

:-P :lol: :?

wildyard

My sewing "table" is an old metal desk. I use the skinny drawer just above the knee hole for my small tools, etc.
I have a drawer for thread, a drawer for elastic, binding, etc., a large deep drawer for bigger items, and a drawer for "stuff". I have my fabrics in 5 stackable, plastic drawers and 2 bins, but only the small bins the size of 2 shoeboxes. I use a single plastic shoe box for my scraps, as I don't have many yet. Being fairly new, I don't have an awful lot of fabric yet. I am beginning to get some yardage, but mostly I have taken apart clothing and less than 1 yd. pieces. I can't keep my fabric neat, cuz I'm always dragging it out for something, and have piled it here and there to sort for different projects.
I tie a grocerybag to the drawer handle on the desk and faithfully put all threads and trash in it, so I don't usually have them on the floor. Unless I am unsewing garments for the fabric, LOL, then I'm a wooly bear.

Janie Q

jetnica- Will you clean for fabric?

crafter005

When I first started quilting, I was much more energetic. I hung up a 8 x 8 peg board and I arranged my rulers, fabric cutters, patterns, and the like all were hung on the board. My cutting mats were underneath the peg board against the wall. I used 3 drawer pull out plastic storage for pins, fabric markers, safety pins, etc in 2 of the drawers and the manuals to sewing machines in the bottom drawer.

I stored the ironing board behind the door. I also purchased plastic shoe boxes for my thread.

That was a long time ago and I've added more patterns, cutting mats (purchased with 50% off coupons from JoAnn's). It worked well for a time. Then I got more stuff and has less time to put up shelves or built in cabinets.

It would be such a luxury to have both the time and the ability to finish my sewing room project....... Maybe I will at some point.

Thanks to everyone for their wonderful ideas.

Emma S

My closets are usually organized but when I turn my back all the stuff just starts creeping out to all of the flat surfaces. I don't know who is responsible, but when I can't stand it any more I clean up.

lab fairy

"Who, Me?" is always the responsible party at my house. Unfortunately, Who, Me's eviction notice never seems to reach them. Even the cats have adopted that particular facial expression. I'm out numbered and out flanked. I'm raising the white flag.