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I think clutter is a part of the creative process.

I am happiest when my fabric is all over in little piles.

When I'm done with a project, I attempt to tidy up a bit. My sewing area is the living room and thank goodness my DH indulges my clutter.

Some one gave my DH a sign that read "A clean work bench is the sign of a sick mind" Could that also apply to a sewing space. Sorry all you neat freaks.

My sewing room is also my bedroom. I tend to pile everything om my bed when getting ready to cut(It's on my cutting table) so I have to put it all back on table to go to bed! If I straighten too much can never find things again.

Because I cannot quilt every day, I have tried (sometimes successfully) to put away materials, tools and so on if I am not going to us them in the next 24 hours. This method at least makes me seem to be on top of it. Less mess and fewer explanations of why there is a cutting mat and measuring tools on the dinning room table when I haven't been at the machine in a week. Bottom line, I feel better about my clutter when I do this to keep it manageable in under control.

I've noticed if I put everything away and clean up then I can't find anything. My sewing room is usually the only room I do that in though. I don't worry about the husband beings I'm always cleaning up after him. I try to keep the rest the house up but my sewing room always looks like a toronado went through. I usually know where everything is that way though. :)

I'm trying really hard to keep my sewing room picked up. Not allow mess to control me. I watched a show on "Hoarders" and this past summer and after that I cleaned, sorted, downsized, tossed, dumped just 'stuff' from my sewing room. I can actually see the floor now, I have fabrics in their bins and not just piles and my sewing table has a big surface I can use and not just pile things on. I spend more time now on projects and getting things done. It's great.

I wish I had a separate place. My sewing room is a corner of my bedroom. I cut on the dining room table, the bed is where I lay things out and fabric and supplies are eveywhere in my room and closet. I just tell friends that my bedroom is the quilting room and they just grin and admire my latest project.

I just read kathy's post. sounds like my soul mate. LOL......

I try to be neat, but then I dump stuff (mainly new magazines) on my desk, my cutting table, or my "ironing board" and don't get around to cleaning it up. I try to put the small things or fabric away so I can find them, but sometimes they get buried.

When I am choosing fabric for a quilt project, my mess spreads out all around the upstairs bedrooms. (My stash is in the closets in those bedrooms.) My sewing nook is a 7 x 11 attic nook in my office, so there is literally no spare space. Once I cut the fabric, and start to sew, I have to be neat. There is no room for clutter, but I don't put things back, like seam rippers (I have many), scissors (lots). For christmas I am getting a wood wall rack to hold my rulers, as they are all over. I am always searching for one that I know I have, but can't find it. Once or twice a year I get motivated to organize my stash, only to destroy it with the next project. I was just complaining to my dd yesterday at lunch that I miss the "big house", and just like a non quilter she said, "why don't you just use the fabric you have?" Don't buy any more!! Yee gads, do you think she has something there, am I addicted? to fabric? (we were at the casino having lunch, I told her that my addiction could be worse).