That's me! There's someting freeing about being more organized. It comes naturally to some, but not to me.

Me again, I keep the templates and rulers, pins, thread rotary cutter, all in an underbed storage box. I can take the whole box to where I am working and put it all back in the box when I am done. My sewingmachine cabinet has little boxes on both doors, so everything I need at the machine is stored there,always handy and easy to put back.My quilting fabric is also in an underbed plastic. I do have a closet that holds shelves and plastic storage drawers for my regular sewing needs. ...all embroidery items, serger threads, buttons, stuff like that.Stuff in the closet is organized, but I don't have any great system .

This is a great idea! The underbed storage would be long enough to hold ALL my rulers, etc. until I can finally pull my sewing room together (keeps getting delayed with life. :? ) I have a dresser in waiting with MANY drawers I am going to repurpose for quilting supplies with an ironing surface on top when that finally happens.

I try to clean up my space each time I finish a project!

I got tired of chasing my scissors, rotory cutter, pen, small ruler, etc., etc. So, I got a pattern (McCalls I think) for a gardners apron with lots and lots of pockets. Now everything is "on" me and I don't have to go looking for stuff!

I lost my seam ripper weeks ago. .. maybe it is time to organize

sounds like a plan to me......CONGRATS on the organizational skills..........

great idea...

I have been organized for over a week now and I don't get as stressed out trying to find stuff. I now have a couple of plastic ice cream or yogurt containers near the machine for current threads for one, and for clips another. Right now I am returning everything as I use it and don't need it again, hanging on hooks, in containers etc.

However, I just had a flashback and when we go away in our van for more than a day, I use a see-through (plastic with fabric backing) shoe bag with lots of places to hold all those most used things, toothbrushes, batteries, etc. Wow! What a great idea to use in my quilting room. Gonna get one and look for only a few seconds to see stuff!.

I also started vacuuming every day or so around the machine since my Standard Poodle thinks that anything accidentally dropped on the floor etc. is his fiber for the day. Gotta get another ice cream container for this stuff. Pauline

Congrats to you Pauline for your 1st week. We all start somewhere and I remember many times when I didn't even get through one day let alone one week. Like you with the plastic bag, I see things all the time that I think would work in my sewing room. Next on my list is the over-the-door shoe bag to use for quilting "things." I saw it on here and thought it looked like a great idea.