Lost in my sewing room
#31
Mavis, that's hilarious! I've misplaced a pkg of 100 bobbins for my embroidery machine. I'm going to go out and check behind the dresser I made into an ironing board and see if it slid off, LOL! I've been looking for weeks. I did find the graduation card with "2012" emblazoned across the front that I got for my DGD.....after I had bought another one and given it to her with her quilt. BTW, I read a great tip on this board about a week ago that suggested putting up wire shelves around the room for more storage space . I just put up my first set day before yesterday, and now have my batting pkgs up above. Now I have more room under the LA for storage and I put the labels down so I can see what size batting I have and how many rolls. I will be moving stuff out of the middle of the room and to it's new home under the LA. Many thanks to the person that suggested the wire shelves! I put up an 8 ft shelf and I'm going to buy more next time I go to Lowes. The 8 ft shelf was about $20 including the hardware to put it up.
I used to live in Marshfield years ago!
I used to live in Marshfield years ago!
#32
My sewing room sounds a lot like yours, but that is ok because we like it like that and it is OUR SEWING ROOM. But just take one item at a time and look under and around it then you will find what you are looking for. Good luck
#33
I ordered a couple of rotary cutting blades from Harbor Freight along with some other items. Took them into my sewing room and put them away... found everything except the blades, which were not anywhere to be found. Ordered some more a week later and when they arrived, took them into the SRoom, as was putting them away where I had sworn I put the previous ones,...looked UP, and there, hanging on the wall were the original blades! Its easy to misplace stuff in my SR.
#34
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Sylviak, the wire shelves sound like something I need. I have dressers, bookcases, storage units, desks, rubbermaid tubs, fat quarter containers (holds like 50 of them and I have 9 of them) plus lots of other containers, but everything is on the floor. I even bought a long dresser and put my rectangular ironing board on it so I would have more storage. I have two long cafeteria type tables for my cutting board (24"x72") and below is full of everything. It's not messy. It's full. I think if I would use my walls, I could be more organized. I have wall hangings on my walls to make my room look homey, but forget that. I need more space. One thing that I need to do is clean out my closet. I have all my skinny clothes in there. Size small. And I'm not small anymore. And all the clothes are out of date. If I took them to the Salvation Army or used them for quilting, I could buy some storage equipment and put them in my closet and it would really solve a lot of my problems. It's not that I have too much, it's that the room is small. It's the smallest bedroom in the house. When I first started quilting when we moved here, I didn't have much so I took the little room. And now there is no way I would pack up and move to a bigger room. Way too much hassle. But the wire hanging shelves is what I need. Thanks for the idea. And I still haven't found that box!!
#36
I'm in the process of redoing an adjacent room next to my sewing room. So guess where all the room's stuff was stored? I can barely walk through to my sewing machine. Everything is piled on piles. I will never try to redo a house one room at a time while living in it. I know I can't get to anything even if I knew where it was. LOL
When you are in a constant state of construction, there is always something you can't find. I spend half my time looking for things!
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Looks like we all lose things. I lost a 5 yard cut of fabric not too long ago. I looked all over the sewing room for it - in things, under things, ..... One day, I absently looked in a stack of fabric I had looked at several times and there it was!
Hope you find your box soon.
Hope you find your box soon.
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