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I need a whole house for my stuff.I have a sewing room but I can only get in it to get some fabric out when I need it.Have to sew on the kit table.I even have cartons of material in dinning room with the ironing board.Had to get rid of the table and chairs so I can have room in there.Still have about 6 big containers to go through out back in shed.Dont know where I am going to put them.I gave a bunch to a friend thats just learning to quilt.Im new at it to but I have made quilts for about 8 years for the homeless in a town not far from us.People where I work gave me a lot of material for that.Thats where most of my stash came from.no pattern to quilts I make for them,just sewing maerial together and sometimes using a top for center and back.
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what are the folded Christmas balls. Sounds like a good way to use small amounts of fabric, which I have loads of.
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Originally Posted by dharen7
My sil and I made a nice sewing room for me in the family room and when I went down to fix up a tastefully simple order for one of my clients when I picked up the box off the floor it was wet. Looked over here I had excess water on the floor soaked up in the carpet, traveled up the boards on the back of my shelving and my material was damp. Hopefully I can just stick it in the dryer for a few and it'll be okay. I was thinking I was lucky my sewing table was to high and my husband had to put a 4*4 under my pedal or I could have gotten shocked when I was down there sewing . I never wear shoes. So back to square one rooms a mess I cut up all the carpet dragged it out to the trash. now waiting for the big decision to re carpet or just put a couple of rugs down. Put everything up on blocks and pray it dosent get moldy
Even if it don't get moldy, it is probably smelly. I left a basement window open once and it rained in on some of my stash, being around it all the time, I didn't notice the odor, but others did. So if you sew for others I would wash and dry the material. I keep a dehumidifer in the basement to protect my sewing machines from moisture. |
You are definitely not alone. I get my sewing area picked up and organized, then I start a project, pull out all this fabric, then have to put it back, but I can leave my sewing machine set up all day and night. However, the down size is that the sewing area is also my bedroom and I have to remember to clean off the bed before I can go to bed. I'm slowly working on my stash, but that will take time. I try to keep the fabric organized in large plastic totes, then I start another project, pull out fabric, etc., etc. Oh well, out of chaos comes beautiful quilts and quilted items.
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Originally Posted by valve2921
I am right up there with no time to organize. My son threatens to call in hoarders team. Parts that r organized r in great shape but can no longer get to that part.
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The best way to clean a sewing room is to close the door. Everything looks wonderful behind a closed door!
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Originally Posted by ButtermilkMama
I know exactly how you feel. I have to sew in my dining room so have to keep everything "picked up". The rest is upstairs in a very small bedroom w/ a dbl bed and dresser in it. I would love to take down the bed and store it somewhere but my DH doesn't want me upstairs, so I am stuck.
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Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Originally Posted by sailsablazin
I have taken over my son's bedroom---mighty small with a bed still and a dresser and lots of his stuff that I don't want to take the time to get rid of. He moved out ages ago, but don't know how much of all of his memoribilia he wants. So, after I crawl over the Nordic Track, then I can get to my machine. But the ironing board is out in another room along with fabric cluttering the guest bed. If we get company it really messes me up! So, come on over, but don't spend the night (don't want to put everything away!!
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Debs, this is a great way to clean... I need to use this method for alllll my rooms. Quilter 1234
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When my mother was about 83 she called me up to say she had just about finished all those things she put off to retirement. she had retired at 67.
I wouldn't worry about a crowded room. |
Mine is organized-neat-no piles-large spaces to walk in-a clear path to the closet......LOL LOL..... that's my STORY aNd I'm stickin' to it !! AT LEAST TIL THAT CAN BECOME A REALITY! I DEFINITELY CAN RELATE :oops:
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Mine is just a wreck
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Some of us have those nice neat rooms with organized fabric stashes (like me http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-119474-1.htm).
But FYI - they don't look as nice and neat when we're in the middle of a project. (Mine certainly looks a lot different.) As an elementary teacher, it's kind of like school picture day. The kids look like they're going to a fancy dinner. Girls in frilly dresses with pretty curls and barrettes, boys in clean shirts and slick backed hair. Every other day, just regular kids playing soccer and on the jungle gym without caring if their clothes get dirty or their hair gets messed up. |
Just told my quilting buddy yesterday I wish I had someone like the shops do to put the fabric away after they cut it. Pull out so much different fabric and it piles up so quick.
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Just went to a friends beautiful house to get a big stash of material she gave me.I just wish I had a room as big as her closet is for a sewing room.I could get into it then.She use to quilt but doesnt have time any more.They own the best resturant I have ever been to ,we eat there a lot.
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I so identify with the title of this thread. :?
I cleaned up in there yesterday, but you can't tell it - it still looks like a cyclone's been through there. I even made myself post pictures of the awful mess where my friends could see it and "hold me accountable" for getting it organized. They thought it looked just fine! :roll: :mrgreen: |
I share my sewing space with the treadmill, washer and dryer, storage, etc. There is a punching bag only feet from my sewing machine, now that comes in handy when things get frustrating.
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Originally Posted by katieranch
My room is overcrowded, partly, because my DH insisted I needed to keep all the cabinets that we had added before I put my quilting frame in there. I would gladly have given up some cabinets...or even better, I would have left my quilt frame in the dining room that we don't use very often but DH would have none of it, so I move the frame to get to the cabinets in the back or to open the window, then I move it back to sew. I found an ironing board for the back of the door, that helped with space a little. Oh, did I tell you the cat box is in my sewing room, too?
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Originally Posted by DanaNVa
Position the foam board with the long edges on the sides.
http://turningturning.com/tutorial-folding-fabric/ shows a method that doesn't require buying a board. Some of us couldn't imagine investing in enough money to put each of our pieces of fabric on a board. The method in the linked tutorial is GREAT. It works and anyone can do it. :) You could hire a teenager to do it. |
Originally Posted by justflyingin
http://turningturning.com/tutorial-folding-fabric/ shows a method that doesn't require buying a board. Some of us couldn't imagine investing in enough money to put each of our pieces of fabric on a board. The method in the linked tutorial is GREAT. It works and anyone can do it. :) You could hire a teenager to do it. That's the tutorial I followed when I started to fold my refabric. I do get compliments on that part of the room lol. I am proud of myself. I just finished cutting the fabric for the rest of the dresser runners I am working on - and refolded and put it away! I am glad I did that :D I'm not too terribly far from getting that room completely under control. I guess it really isn't as bad as I made it seem lol - although it certainly isn't a showroom! |
Well, as you know you are not alone. On May 19th I posted before and after pics of my sewing room, and I am glad I did. Everyone was very helpful with advice and comments. I think I maybe had one negative comment. And I didn't care.
I still need to sort my fabric, but it is summer and that is not on the top of things to do list, I do some here and there. At least I can go in the room and work. I feel so good going in there now, and I am proud to say it is still in order and will remain that way. So good luck to you, and thanks to everyone on the forum who has been there or is there and always offering a shoulder to lean on. |
I am so happy but so discouraged at the same time.A wonderful lady gave ma a large amount of material.That makes me happy ,what discourages me is I have no place to put it.I put it in my suppose to be sewing room on top of all the other material people gave me but I cant get into the room to sew.I so need a bigger house.One just for me and my sewing.
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LOL
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I can tell you that cramming another shelf in the corner is not really going to help...
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Originally Posted by Yarn or Fabric
I just finished cutting the fabric for the rest of the dresser runners I am working on.
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Originally Posted by cabinfever
Originally Posted by Yarn or Fabric
I just finished cutting the fabric for the rest of the dresser runners I am working on.
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Originally Posted by cabinfever
Originally Posted by Yarn or Fabric
I just finished cutting the fabric for the rest of the dresser runners I am working on.
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That pretty much sounds like mine LOL
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To DebShelties--you're not realistic.. and JustFlyingIn...I'm more with you. My sewing/computer/wordprocessor/tv/smocking/storage/etc room is only 18x24..and crowded!!! I invested in some large clear plastic boxes, and they are jammed in behind the bar.. and bolts of fabric on large plastic shelves.. along with several sewing machines,(desk models also) 2 treadle machines, pleater, small Singer, Serger,l ironing board, 2 large desks, 5 filing cabinets, shelves along the walls for books, and more material, and still it's a mess... I walk around sideways, and then there are the 2 kittens that climb on EVERYTHING, and that falls on the floor, materials as well as papers, and it's difficult for me to bend over, due to my 81 yr old back.. No, I'm not taking pictures.. Diana O.
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I love looking at those gorgeous sewing rooms also, where everything has a place, and everything is in its place... but where do they keep all of their patterns, books, MATERIAL??? There are a few fat quarters here and there, but that's it... and there are maybe 2 rotary cutters, and that's it... and all the rulers? and all the other goodies? certainly not in front of the camera.... C'mon now, they're not realistic... Diana O.
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