I organized a while back and couldn't find a pattern for several weeks. I can find things better when unorganized (messy). I do have a coffee filter for the threads and little scraps so they don't end up on the floor. I've learned to put away pincushions when I leave or the kitties carry them downstairs. I sew on the kitchen table and cut on the dining room table. No nice sewing room like some of you. Mine was taken over by computers and printers.

I am a really messy quilter. I usually have a bunch of projects going at one time and I have piles of stuff everywhere. It is really bad right now because I only have a small corner of the bedroom set up as my sewing area so it looks a lot worse because itseems like there is more mess than there really is. I worry about cleaning up when I finish something but lately it seems like I start many more projects than I get finished but everytime I find a really unique pattern that I like, I have to start on it right away. Oh how I wish for a real sewiing room so that I can organize all my boxes and boxes of fabric.

Non - sewers and neat freaks often comment on how "dirty" my house is, when it is only material and cotton thread on the floor.I live my life to suit myself, and not the occasional visitor.If they don't like it, they don't have to come -then I can have a good time getting on with my sewing, or sharing a cup of coffee with a good friend who doesn't mind drinking from clean cups when there is a bit of thread on the floor...




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I try to keep it neat. I like a clean house and when my family was younger I would totally stress if anything was out of place. Now that it is just my DH, myself and our dogs I am not quite so anal about cleaning. I only vacuum 3 times a week and dust the same. Mopping gets done maybe once a month. Bathrooms cleaned every other week. I remember my MOm telling me that after she was gone she wanted to be remembered as a good Christian woman not because her house was spotless. Also, as I get older I realize that life is too short to "sweat the small stuff".

Wow Nancy with a name such as fancy nancy i would think you would be diffrent than most of us and be a neat freak. Cann't help but make a mess. I do seem to pick up my threads at the end of the session and throw them away but I think that is about it. I think I only pick them up because I don't want them all over my project.

After I get thru for the day I kind of pick up,but not that neat so I'll forget where I can't find things again. Takes a day just to find everything, by that time your so tired it then becomes a wrap for the day.

me too!, I am glad to know I am not the only one

I am very neat everywhere except my sewing room My friends often say I am often their inspiration to clean house but the other day one came over and I was in the sewing room and my husband sent her in and she was completely disallusioned I anm very messy when I am creating

When my work table gets too cluttered to use my rotery cutter I stop and put things away so I cut right and so I don't loose pieces or misplace my equipment. Between projects, I usually put things away before getting new items out.

The featured frig magnet at my house states, "Dull women have immaculate houses."