Sewing Room Tidy List for Jan/Feb
01-04-2019, 01:17 PM
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Looking Good!!!
It does take a concerted effort to get it all done. For the past few years I have been trying to down size my stash. And just gave the majority of my youth fabrics to a friend of mine that has grandchildren and great-nieces and nephews. Getting rid of scraps, Christmas fabric I has been a little more difficult - I just love it, but not using it so, I need to push myself a bit harder. My sewing room does look like a disaster when I am in the middle of a project - but it gets cleaned up after because it also is a spare bedroom with a murphy bed that is needed from time to time.
It does take a concerted effort to get it all done. For the past few years I have been trying to down size my stash. And just gave the majority of my youth fabrics to a friend of mine that has grandchildren and great-nieces and nephews. Getting rid of scraps, Christmas fabric I has been a little more difficult - I just love it, but not using it so, I need to push myself a bit harder. My sewing room does look like a disaster when I am in the middle of a project - but it gets cleaned up after because it also is a spare bedroom with a murphy bed that is needed from time to time.
01-04-2019, 01:38 PM
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OMG You had me cracking up laughing Zozee! I'm such a neat freak when it comes to my quilting and my reading that there is no way my room would ever be messy. I put things away as soon as I am done using them - fabric measured? Rulers and cutting tools are hung up instantly.
Now, if you want to talk about where I "fail" ... it's cooking ... I can cook - I just hate cooking. So my meals are mainly salads. I make a huge salad every sunday and that's what I have for supper every night LOL
Your cutting space looks awesome!
Now, if you want to talk about where I "fail" ... it's cooking ... I can cook - I just hate cooking. So my meals are mainly salads. I make a huge salad every sunday and that's what I have for supper every night LOL
Your cutting space looks awesome!
01-04-2019, 01:43 PM
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Thank you. I bet my “before” picture gave you the heebie jeebies. “Never messy” is a phrase this girl hasn’t said about herself. I am not a slob but let’s just call me an inconsistent “ tidy upper”. I also don’t especially enjoy cooking anymore. Maybe every full moon I get a yen to make a fab meal, but there is no way I could eat a salad every single night. Might be afraid to grow antlers����
As a vegetarian, it's much easier to just eat salad! And I'm so lazy about cooking that even making that once a week is a PITA!
Keep up the great work on your room!
01-04-2019, 01:44 PM
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This much I can say: you don’t have to be organized to make a list. Just pick a place to start and write what you see as you look clockwise around the room. Break it down into small sections. Even if it takes you more than two months, imagine how good it will look and feel. Better than if you let it go for two more months, right?
01-04-2019, 01:51 PM
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Very nice work, Zozee! And your list shows you are a far more organized person than I am. 
I did a big declutter at Thanksgiving, so the family could come and actually use the dining room to gather and eat! (It's my "downstairs" sewing room the rest of the year). I tend to put stuff away as soon as I'm finished with it, so it's still nice and orderly (more or less). My upstairs sewing room (longarm room) stays pretty neat. So I'm all ready to dive into 2019 projects!
I have some plastic drawers full of precut scraps, that I want to empty out. My goal is to make scrap quilts for donation with them. So far, so good!
I did a big declutter at Thanksgiving, so the family could come and actually use the dining room to gather and eat! (It's my "downstairs" sewing room the rest of the year). I tend to put stuff away as soon as I'm finished with it, so it's still nice and orderly (more or less). My upstairs sewing room (longarm room) stays pretty neat. So I'm all ready to dive into 2019 projects!
I have some plastic drawers full of precut scraps, that I want to empty out. My goal is to make scrap quilts for donation with them. So far, so good!
01-04-2019, 01:53 PM
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01-05-2019, 11:23 AM
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I like your list ideas but I especially like the last part. That is exactly what I need to do .... give away to make space to breath and think so I can actually work on some things I want to do. Luckily we have a shop in town that takes all craft type things whether they are yarn, thread, patterns, fabric, musical instruments, crockery ... well, you get the idea that they will take just about anything usable. They do classes and you can buy from them for very little money. I will be donating there and the local charity shop. Hmmm, just thinking about that makes me feel better. Thanks zozee for posting this list. It is pushing me along to actually do the organizing.
01-05-2019, 12:48 PM
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Great Before and After and picture this all in caps, selvedge light shade!! Did you glue them on or make fabric or?
I have a before from around 2002 that would freak out Everyone
I was getting my head around FlyLady. What a blessing that was, I think of her and thank her every day.
I have a before from around 2002 that would freak out Everyone
I was getting my head around FlyLady. What a blessing that was, I think of her and thank her every day.
01-05-2019, 02:45 PM
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Great Before and After and picture this all in caps, selvedge light shade!! Did you glue them on or make fabric or?
I have a before from around 2002 that would freak out Everyone I was getting my head around FlyLady. What a blessing that was, I think of her and thank her every day.
I have a before from around 2002 that would freak out Everyone
I was getting my head around FlyLady. What a blessing that was, I think of her and thank her every day.I hot glued them on one at a time. I really need to go back and give the ends a trim, huh? Took me a while to figure out if I wanted them to hang off , but seeing it in a photo convinces me I want to tuck them under (glue) them all even with the top and bottom, and then put a selvedge around the top edge.
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