You have inspired me, since sewing is not happening, to start sorting, straightening, and donating to get my quilting pile to look like a room again. (Had to move out of fabric storage room for house guests in July, and still have guests)

Not often enough! When I was straightening up recently I found several fabrics and a quilt tool I have no recollection of purchasing. That is scary. LOL

What sewing room?? It has gotten to a point I don't have much room to sew and don't see things changing anytme soon as DH has more and more"stuff" parked around. I haven't been feeling good and spent 4 days in hospital and foot/leg still not healed so I spend a lot of time with foot up to get it healed. Getting old is NOT for the weak.

That's what I say. I can't work in clutter, so it stays pretty neat.

When I redid my sewing room a while ago I had it so clean that I was not able to do any work in there. I learned that I need some amount of clutter. Finding that happy medium is the challenge.

I think I agree with GramE, I tend to clean when things get so deep I can't find anything. Part of the problem is that 5 years ago we "downsized" from a 3 bedroom home with full basement, 1/4 of which was my "sewing area" in the summer, but I also had my daughter's old bedroom upstairs in winter to save heat. I think you can imagine, plus when my sister died, I inherited all her fabric, plus people knew I quilted, so they would give me fabric. Although I purged approximately 50% (which was traumatic) my sewing area now consists of a 5 foot folding table (like ones used at churches and other similar places; then I have a 3 foot craft table that holds my sewing machine. Despite limited space, or maybe because of it, when I get involved in quilting and sewing projects, I tend to use my bed as "horizontal storage"; which means I have to clean off my bed every night so I can sleep in it; so that generates chaos; but every so often, when I can't stand the chaos any more, I clean it.

Yeah!!! This is news to me too! :D

I try to walk by my sewing room upstairs really fast, so I won't notice anything.

I usually straighten things up as I go along. I find that my creativity works better when it is not cluttered with stuff laying around. I do a through cleaning after each project. Currently I am working on the Splendid Sampler project which lasts a year. Who knows when it will get a good cleaning again. Maybe New Year's.

As needed--which translates to "probably not often enough"!!!