sylviak

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!

sew_itnow

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

janegb

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.

jcrow

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!!

maryellen2u

I always find what I'm looking for when I have to start looking for something else!

nstitches4u

I feel your pain. lol About 17 years ago, we built a new country kitchen and dining room onto the back of our house. At the same time, we converted the old kitchen into a 1st floor laundry room and made some other structural changes. (The house was Spanish style when we bought it and had a lot of archways that we changed to regular doorways. We also repainted and recarpeted every room in the house. I said I would never live in a house that was under construction/renovation again. So, 2 years after that, we remodeled our upstairs bathroom and had new ceramic tile floors put in the bathroom, kitchen and entry hall. Then 3 years ago we built 12 x 23 room onto the back of the house for my sewing/quilting studio. A little over a year ago, we took all the carpet out of the bedrooms and replaced it with hardwood-look laminate flooring. I have told my husband that that was absolutely the last building/remodeling project. I'm getting too old for this. I'm almost to the point of saying if anything needs repainting, hire somebody. 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!

EvelynJ

I have the same issue. My rotary cutter has been lost for 3 weeks now, I have searched high and low can't find it. I know if I purchase another I'll find it the same day! Good luck!!

TrenbeathRanch

So much fabric, so little space...

Scakes

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.

ube quilting

House Rule #1. DON'T TOUCH MY STUFF.