more cleaning than creating
11-25-2010, 06:00 AM
#21
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Texas
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I straightened my sewing room yesterday, it was a mess, but with company coming in today for Thanksgiving, figured I had better straighten everything up, now tomorrow, I will probably find time to get back in there and sew. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
11-25-2010, 06:50 AM
#23
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Vermont
Posts: 1,407
I know the feeling all to well *sighs* It can be a bit of an embrassment too - being where I have customers that come to my home 'studio' to drop off their quilts. I usually have a quilt loaded on the machine, many lined up under it & boxes of in come'n quilts that I got through the mail that need to have invoices done up & then put in bins under the machine. My system works well for me, but sometimes the work load is bigger than the space I have... I KNOW! Maybe I can get hubby to finish the other half of the basement so I can have more room!!!!!
AND THEN there's my personal projects; of which I usually have a dozen in the works w/nothing but the customer quilts getting completed. I only got one baby quilt, a table runner & a schlep bag done in 2010 - how sad is that!
oO and what about all those toys that have wandered down in to my work shop...
I try sooooo hard to put things away as I use them, but some how things usually look like a bomb went off. The worse part is ALL that thread gathering on my carpet! (I wonder how many miles of thread I throw away on a weekly basis.) Sometimes just run'n the vacuum makes the entire work area feel more organized lol
And the rest of the house!?! 4-get-it! Just another never ending bother! If I ever get my business equipment paid off, I'm gonna hire someone to come once a week (or at least every other week) lol
Thankfully my OCD isn't what it use to be lol Most of the time I can live w/the condition of it all. Occassionally I have to stop everything & just clean/pick it up. I'm not the cleanest/neatest but I know I'm not the dirtiest/messiest of them all either.
(I wonder how much straightening up I could have accomplished if I wasn't here lol)
AND THEN there's my personal projects; of which I usually have a dozen in the works w/nothing but the customer quilts getting completed. I only got one baby quilt, a table runner & a schlep bag done in 2010 - how sad is that!
oO and what about all those toys that have wandered down in to my work shop...
I try sooooo hard to put things away as I use them, but some how things usually look like a bomb went off. The worse part is ALL that thread gathering on my carpet! (I wonder how many miles of thread I throw away on a weekly basis.) Sometimes just run'n the vacuum makes the entire work area feel more organized lol
And the rest of the house!?! 4-get-it! Just another never ending bother! If I ever get my business equipment paid off, I'm gonna hire someone to come once a week (or at least every other week) lol
Thankfully my OCD isn't what it use to be lol Most of the time I can live w/the condition of it all. Occassionally I have to stop everything & just clean/pick it up. I'm not the cleanest/neatest but I know I'm not the dirtiest/messiest of them all either.
(I wonder how much straightening up I could have accomplished if I wasn't here lol)
11-25-2010, 06:52 AM
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Colorado
Posts: 1,388
Totally. I have spent more time organizing my fabrics than actually sewing. Housework is never ending and sewing with a messy room/house makes me feel very guilty. Wish I could afford a maid, but I would be afraid I would teach her to quilt instead of having her clean. :cry:
11-25-2010, 08:01 AM
#27
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: PA
Posts: 2,879
Originally Posted by cjomomma
This funny because I'm trying to straighten my sewing area pit but I think I'm making a bigger mess. I think it's time to offer out items I won't be using, maybe after Christmas.
11-25-2010, 08:05 AM
#28
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 122
Bless you for being so organized. I don't have much room but I still have a mess no matter how hard I try to keep things together
Originally Posted by Mary Eleanor
I keep all quilting projects, materials, supplies etc. in clear labeled bins. These are all stacked on shelves in the basement. When I start a project I gather all the needed supplies put them in a bin and that is the only bin that is in my very small sewing room. I take a few minutes at the end of the day to clean up so I am ready to begin work the next day.
11-25-2010, 08:39 AM
#29
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Maryland
Posts: 1,148
I'm thinking if you have enough stuff stacked every where it protects your carpet. Ain't so?
Originally Posted by erstan947
God has blessed me with the ability to look without seeing. Dust? what dust? stuff stacked every where. I don't see any stacked stuff. Dirty dishes, Where? Trust me I don't clean up between projects!:)
11-25-2010, 09:35 AM
#30
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: N.W. Florida
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Your responses make me feel better. I know I am not alone. I like an organized, effecient sewing room but I also like "cutesy. I have notions, etc. in everything from large baskets, (plastic bins are behind closet doors) to vintage salt shakers (beads) and syrup pitchers. It looks cute but I have a hard time finding stuff after I put it away so I need to make an inventory list and post it on the wall.
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