Iraxy

Eek, you peeked in my room last year! Much better now! LOL

skothing

Sue This is do able. First tale the white book case only and buy foam core , corrugated plastic, measure the shelves and cut the plastic one inch shorter than the shelf height and 1 in. shorter lenght for deapth. wrap fabric pin end to self mark coraplast with the yardage on it. Stand it up right. Do that then e mail me and I give you some other ideas.
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MilyLily

KSue, I see that you already have a wonderful sense of organization -------you just need to expand on what's already there. You've covered your boxes on the top shelves with contact(?) paper and added a list sheet on the outside-----do more of them for your magazines and anything else that is not fabric and put them on your shelves. Cover the bigger paper boxes that you have under your hanging rod--------move some of them under your cutting table near the window as it seems like your utilizing that space for the bags. If your bags are holding "projects" together------get them into more covered boxes & label with a pic of the finished project in a plastic sleeve attached or clear boxes & slide the finished pic project inside the box so that it can be viewed on the outside & shelve them. Sort your fabric by color---one per shelf in plastic bins. Use hooks under your cutting table nearest the center of the room to hang your rulers, scissors, and rotary cutter on. Someone on the board suggested using your ruler to fold your fabric so it looks neater----then put them in your clear bins by color. You can do this KSue----------just set a timer for 15 minutes and go to it. When the timer rings----STOP! Do a little each day and it'll get done-------looking forward to seeing your posts for your "new room" soon :-D

hopetoquilt

WHY don't you live closer to me?? I love to organize. It is so much fun and satisfying when you are done. My suggestions when you are cleaning...

1. crank up the music or put on the television
2. do one small area at a time. if you try to tackle it all at once, you will tire and quit
3. take breaks to sew a few blocks. it breaks things up and keeps you interested.
4. set aside all the stuff you truly don't need or think you might not need. don't toss it yet but get it out of the room and really think hard about whether or not you need it.
5. ruler fold the fabric. it saves so much space and makes everything look great. you don't have to be super perfect about having everything exactly the same size when folded. I feel that those comic book boards aren't really necessary (at least for me).
6. I don't like the clear shoe box containers. they are too small. get bigger clear containers. they work better. I got 7 containers for WIP and limit myself to that many WIP
7. group similar things together. make everything easily accessible and easy to put away.
8. understand that once you have finished organizing and start quilting again, part of the system may not work and you may need to rearrange a bit again. Just notice what is not working and amend that part of it.

Have fun doing this and make it a gift to yourself. you are giving yourself a happy beautiful functional space...
Feel free to PM me if you need suggestions for particular items or trouble solving certain things.

katesnanna

I'm the first to admit that I'm not the tidiest person but I have to keep my room fairly tidy because it is also my bedroom. If I clean up and put things back in their place it's not too bad but if I leave things laying around it soon ends up messy. I'm in the process of getting an allotted sewing space so hope I can keep it tidy as my friends will be coming to sew with me.
From your photos it looks like you could do with some plastic bins, especially the ones on wheels. I traded a friend some see through shoe boxes for sturdier plastic containers. I now use these for fabric and pattern for future quilts - one per box. I also use one to carry my latest project,especially when I go to my sewing group.

LynnVT

Looks as though you have a structure of order, but just keep adding stuff without putting it away. I know because I do the same thing. Today my quilting/living room is perfectly neat - everything put away so you hardly know it is used for quilting. Everything is stuffed in my little closet for now. We are having company Sunday, did you guess that? By Monday or Tuesday - KABOOM! It will all explode again as I get on to my next project. In case I have serious withdrawal, the last thing I did before putting cutting board back in closet was cut out the BOM I need to bring to guild meeting on Wednesday. I can always pull out the Featherweight to make it tomorrow if I begin having symptoms of anxiety.

craftyheart2

I think my cutting table actually looks worse but that is because I have been in several swaps lately and I have also had a lot of small donated scraps that I am trying to cut into the shapes I use. Today it even has my mother's 70th birthday cake dumped in the middle of it as my DH and DFather reorganised the other bedroom this morning!!!

Every 2nd week I am on early shift and have about 1.5 hours free before I have to start on tea. This week I have been using the time to tidy my room and weed out excess magazines etc. Sometimes I use all of that time, sometime 1/2 hour or so is enough.

I took the excess stuff to my local group and most of it went home with them.

Country1

My 2 rooms could give yours a good run for the money! LOL (But true)
I would post pix, but my DH would be mortified!....
Trying to straighten up mine as well.
Love your lady bugs.
Good luck to us both, Penny.

luvTooQuilt

Start in one corner and dig in..

I had piles and piles of scraps, bolts piled high everywhere there was space, newly bought fabric covered my sewing machines, cutting table and ironing boards.. I had enough.. It took me a week but I can now walk in and sit at my machine and sew... Yay..

If I can do it, You can do too !!!!

OK this is not perfect by no means but I can work in there again.... Im happy to go in there now, as before i hated to even look in there..

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YOU CAN DO IT !!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!

kateyb

I had to reorganize my sewing room a few months ago. I had fabrics in tubs but after a car accident and dislocated ribs I found it hard to move the tubs around - they were just to heavy. I got a few plastic drawers that fit on my larger shelf and folded all the fg's to fit in the drawers. I can see the edge of all of them and can just pull one out. No more having to lift a stack to get the one I want. It saves lots of time and effort. All fabrics larger than a fg but smaller than 1 1/2 yd I wrapped on a 6" ruler and than folded to fit on the smaller upper shelf of a bookcase. All fabrics bigger than 1 1/2 yd I wrapped on my 12" ruler and folded to fit on the bookcase and stand them on end like books, again no more lifting of stacks of fabric to get the one I want. All the fabrics are sorted by color. I got the larger 3 drawer sets, a total of 12 drawers, didn't put on the wheels and stacked them in stacks of 6 for a smaller space for my scraps. Pieces smaller than fq's went into the scrap bins.
Since we did have to put a freezer in the sewing room the space on top of it has small easy to lift bins with my UFO's, WIP's in them. They are numbered and I typed out a list on my computer of what is in each one so I can find them easily without having to search through all of them. If I move them or finish them I revise the list.My larger UFO's are in larger bins on a low shelf so I don't have to move them. They are larger tops that I haven't found the backing for yet or I don't quilt them until I have someone to give them to then I buy the batting and finish them. (It saves space.) I have one larger bin of just bleached and unbleached muslin.
My quilting books are on a books shelf in a small odd space in the hall.
Of course I am working on finishing the UFO's so I will have more space. I'm trying not to buy anymore fabric unless it is to finish something already started.
If you need a better explanation for anything feel free to PM me.