mjhaess

Start with the furniture. Storage is the most important. Then you can put each thing away as you unpack..

winia

When I moved, just plain moved, after the moving men left, it was just me and sixty boxes. I looked around and wanted to crawl in a hole I felt so overwhelmed. What worked for me was the one box at a time. Every day I would empty one box and stop. It was June, and I would go outside and sit at my deck table with something to sew, mostly hand work, and just relaxed and enjoyed my time outside. I am also a firm believer in saying to myself this is not Ground Hog Day. In case you don't understand what I mean, Bill Murray many years ago made a movie entitled Ground Hog Day in which he relived the same day over and over and over. When I finished one box and I woke up the next day, that box wasn't going to return so that I had to empty it again. It was gone, and I could move on and empty another one. Relax, take a deep breath, and remember it is not Ground Hog Day.

Michellesews

I have had to go vertical. I hang on peg boards as much as I can so it is in plain site. I think my sewing room is about 10 x 10. I have a cutting table with the drop leaves and beneath three corners I have plastic drawers to store fabric. It is cramped in there but mostly I am sitting or cutting. I did have to put my pressing area outside the door in a hallway (I use an old portable kitchen island). I like having to get up and walk over top press so I am not sitting so long at a time.

Prissnboot

I agree with the 15 minute increment philosophy, but not with the pick it up, put it down till later idea. When you pick something up, if at all possible, follow it through to completion or as far as you can go. Then when you put it down, you're finished with it. Otherwise it just becomes more frustrating, and if it gets in a box, it's "out of sight, out of mind". That's one way to not have to look at it, but think of all the things you can do with it if you know about it!

indysheart

There are lots of good ideas here. My space is currently a small old desk, and 2 wire shelves…. In my son’s already small playroom. I have to do all my cutting downstairs at the kitchen table, that’s usually were I pin things up also. Then I take upstairs to sew. I did finally get one of those thread stands that sits on my desk behind me machine. I’m trying to convince my husband to give up his L shaped desk—that he never uses. Except the only place it really fits is in our bedroom. He works and odd shift and is usually asleep when I have energy to sew (and is a light sleeper), so… Not sure how that will work. But I need to get somehow organized in my teeny space. I saw on pinterest to hold fabric in a neat way by placing them file like in a box or bin. That is my first goal.

coastienest

I too am trying to organize a small space. Everything the other girls said is so true. I have decided to start in one corner and work my way around the room, but this only after I have folded my fabric and arranged according to either color or theme. One step at at time. Once I got the fabric organized it was much easier and everything else just tell into place. Take a deep breath and begin..........Good luck!

tuckyquilter

Oh how I wish QB just had photo albums of everyones work in one place. One for quilts, one for organization, another for vintage. But a place we could scroll through without have to stop and start all the time, etc. THEN if we see something we could just click on the photo and get the rest of that persons posted photos. LIKE FB has albums for business etc.