Sewing Room...Would you show us right now?
11-01-2011, 06:06 AM
#221
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Missouri
Posts: 208
You are certainly one step closer than I am. We have been remodeling our downstairs for 2 years plus. Everything is trashed upstairs and still other stuff in storage. I don't know where everything come from and then I started sewing!! With that came not 1 but 2 different machines!! or was it 3??? So, since we live on the lake...my upstairs living room is becoming my sewing room. One of the bedrooms is going back to a bedroom and the other bedroom is becoming an office leaving the master the same....HOWEVER, until the downstairs is completed the upstairs will NOT be started for remodeling!! Until then, we live like hoarders!! Having said that, there is a point of organization that NEEDS to be done but I have tooooo many friends and family who really NEED things done so I happily oblige them!! How about let's all make a commitment that we give ourselves a Christmas present and make an effort that each of us show a pic of our efforts by December 1???? Anyone game?????
11-01-2011, 06:54 AM
#224
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Granville MA
Posts: 262
I don't have a "sewing room". Everything is spread all over my living room. My husband despairs. I'd like to have an organized room and there is no reason (I've plenty of rooms) for me not to - except between paid work and upkeep of the farm I just barely have time to work on my sewing. And I like to be with the family when I am doing so.....hence everything spread all over the living room where we all congregate.
11-06-2011, 07:14 PM
#225
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 85
Originally Posted by Just Fabric
My sewing area is rarely tidy, because I have so...much and not a place for everything, my cutting table, well theres a small spot for cutting out, because I have lots of started projects, an fabric on it., I still have lots of tubs, filled with lace, some fabric, notions. If I waited to tidy up (not happening) I might just move some stuff around, I love my sewing mess, its upstairs and no one has to see it! Yes I will post pics of my sewing area, but how or where do I load the pics up?
cutting table, under mess
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same area, different corner
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same area, right off the cutting table
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looking down the hallway from cutting area
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guest/sewing room
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industrial machine, I haven't used it since I moved here in March!
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trying to figure out where I can get more wall space!
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cutting table, with most used fabric at end
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looking down hall from opposite end, everyone needs to show theres now, it can't be as bad as mine!
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same area, different corner
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same area, right off the cutting table
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looking down the hallway from cutting area
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guest/sewing room
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industrial machine, I haven't used it since I moved here in March!
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trying to figure out where I can get more wall space!
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cutting table, with most used fabric at end
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looking down hall from opposite end, everyone needs to show theres now, it can't be as bad as mine!
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11-06-2011, 07:18 PM
#226
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 917
I do not think mine was this bad the day I moved in and then I had an excuse but not now just do not take time to put things back in their home when finished with them Only myself to blame for this mess and just do not seem to have what it takes to get it back in order Need help from someone
11-06-2011, 09:39 PM
#227
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 135
Originally Posted by vicki75
I saw a friend's blog and she posted pictures of her sewing room. She was all organized and neat. It made me think about my space. If I took pictures and shared I'm afraid people would die from all the clutter and mess. 
So it made me start to think....would I share pictures of what my space really looks like or would I tidy it up before showing anyone? Just curious if I'm the only slob... 
So it made me start to think....would I share pictures of what my space really looks like or would I tidy it up before showing anyone? Just curious if I'm the only slob... since then when I finish sewing that day...I put everything away...(scissors, rulers....books, etc...)
then every day when I go in to sew it is clean and the only thing out is my machine and whatever
quilt or sewing project I'm working on...
11-06-2011, 10:12 PM
#228
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: No San Diego County, California
Posts: 953
I did write a blog post about my sewing room and I admit I did "tidy" up my room just a tad!!!!!! I actually was looking for a piece of fabric and when I couldn't find it I started straightening some of my fabrics in the closet of my sewing room.
Before I knew it I had taken most all of the fabric out of the closet, off the floor and shelves, and reorganized it all. I refolded most of it and was amazed how much better it looked once I finished. I put fabrics together in project bags or see through tubs that I had bought for specific projects. It took me all day! That led to my reorganizing of a basket shelf unit I also keep fabric in, and some reorganizing of see through tubs of batiks and Christmas fabrics, refolding the fabrics so that I could better see what I had, organizing them by colors. That took another day.
I discovered a few things in this reorganization project: I had some fabric I really didn't like, wondered why I bought it, and gave it to charity; I don't have a lot of reds or yellows-golds; and I have way more WISP's and/or UFO's than I thought I had!! I try not to let my sewing room get messy when I am sewing, but sometimes it just happens without me even being aware!
Before I knew it I had taken most all of the fabric out of the closet, off the floor and shelves, and reorganized it all. I refolded most of it and was amazed how much better it looked once I finished. I put fabrics together in project bags or see through tubs that I had bought for specific projects. It took me all day! That led to my reorganizing of a basket shelf unit I also keep fabric in, and some reorganizing of see through tubs of batiks and Christmas fabrics, refolding the fabrics so that I could better see what I had, organizing them by colors. That took another day.
I discovered a few things in this reorganization project: I had some fabric I really didn't like, wondered why I bought it, and gave it to charity; I don't have a lot of reds or yellows-golds; and I have way more WISP's and/or UFO's than I thought I had!! I try not to let my sewing room get messy when I am sewing, but sometimes it just happens without me even being aware!
Last edited by yayaquilts; 11-06-2011 at 10:14 PM.
11-06-2011, 10:35 PM
#230
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Nebraska..The Good Life
Posts: 2,102
Disagree!
Originally Posted by smcfadden
A clean sewing room is the sign of a quilter who isn't sewing!
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