SaraSewing

sloppy? not unless it's old moldy hamburgers, or mushy apples. Disorganized, maybe. It's probably just a sign of a distracted and busy mind.

BKrenning

Let me know if you find any of mine!--LOL.

It is just a way of life for me. I have to put things in the same spot each & every time I use them or I can't find them. I'm so used to looking for things that I don't even get aggravated any more. Stressing out about it just makes my memory worse.

lyndaloo

[So today I decided "No More." I started putting everything back in its place after I used it and it has already paid off! When I put stuff back right away in its rightful place, then there is no stress trying to find it. And there is no time wasted by having to "re-organize" my quilting room. Paulien[/quote]

I've tried this many times, but it just doesn't work for me. I re-organize my stash, and have it neat as can be. I do the same for all of my rulers, rippers, sissors, pin cushions, etc. Everything goes well for a day or so. Then somehow the next time I go into my quilt room to sew, I find my stash has blown up again and my quilting tools have all hidden themselves in various places unknown to me. Once again, I search for one tool and find another, find the one I need and use it, start searching for another, lose the one I found.....and the beat goes on...

Carron

Oh good grief, something else I need to do in my sewing room!

Jan in VA

So, how do you train yourself to remember to remember?!!!
Doesn't seem to be happening in my world!

Jan in VA

quilting cat

Remember the old adage, "a place for everything, and everything in its place" ? But if it's in its place, you can't be using it, and if you're using it, you'll probably set it down there, and ...

Quiltforme

That is how I get my exercise looking for things :)

Aurora

My pincushion holds my seam ripper and scissors as well as pins, so these are seldom lost. Keep an extra pair of scissors on my ironing board to snip those extra threads I might have missed.

When I had a dedicated sewing room, it was always the neatest room in the house -- after all it was my haven. I always put things back where they belonged. Of course this was all prequilting. When I get my dedicated room again, I hope the old habits will return; however, I am sure there will be a relearning curve.

Retiredandquilting

LOL!

redmadder

After all these years I have multiples of everything. So if the scissors get lost in a bag of scraps, so what? And why did DH leave his hammer near my sewing anyway? He was so happy when it turned up in a UFO.