SuzzyQ

I inventoried my entire apartment in January - in response to a new insurance policy with a new company, just for my own information - and in the process measured and counted my entire fabric stash - yardage, precuts, kits, scraps. Wow!
And reorganized my space, although I'm constrained by limitations of the space (heat source, window, closet, entry door, width of room and available supporting furniture. I have two tables that move about and one of them collapses - it also holds my big board.
Will upload pictures when I've got time.

Iceblossom

I think it was Rryder that kept this thread hoping before. He is one of my most-missed former posters... anyway, best wishes that he is organized and happy and that some day he returns

For me, sometimes it is the small things that make a big difference. My plastic tubs are translucent but still offer some light protection and I can't always tell what is inside without opening it up.

An easy search or two, and I found large repositionable labels (so they don't stick on forever!) designed to mark large totes. As I'm organizing the unsorted totes, I am putting things into their group, however I may see that... Maybe some day I will be sooo organized that I will print nice labels on my printer. Maybe.

quiltmouse

@Iceblossom great idea. I use scrapbook cardstock, a bigish one stuck inside, writing facing out. Mine aren't translucent, though, transparent.

lol @ my brain, I looked at your pic and thought and thought what is "Cut Wax?" pondered. Then I zoomed in. hahahahaha "Civil War"

cashs_mom

We re-did the flooring upstairs in order to move our company offices home. I have 2 rooms that I use for sewing that had to be emptied. It was a huge mess and very physically taxing for me, but the end result was good. We brought the shelves home from the office storage room and put them in there so I have lots of storage in the cutting/storage area. I sorted my books and sorted out of a lot that I don't use anymore and took them out of the book shelves, mostly sewing and tailoring books. It's so nice and organized now. The biggest problem I have is finding things. I know where it was before the re-organization but have no idea where I put it. This is one of the reasons I don't reorganize more often. I even have shelves for my car show trophies that used to be in my office!

I would like to warn the OP that I bought a big, older house (built in 1982) twenty-five years ago. I discovered my biggest problem when I had to empty out the closets for the flooring was that I had lots of closets upstairs and I had filled them up! I had so many old clothes (especially dressy clothes) up there that I hadn't worn in years and couldn't get them on anyway, but still had them. Goodwill scored! I found one box of things that I found after my mother died. I'm sure I was just so overwhelmed (she was something of a pack rat) and I just stuffed this last box in the closet. It had been there for over 20 years. When I opened it, I only ended up keeping a handful of old snapshots of my parents. I have no idea why I kept it all that time. So be ware!

quiltmouse

@cashs_mom Yea, I definitely hear you on too much stuff. I haven't filled the closets, mainly because the rooms aren't their intended eventual use yet. I am a recovering hoarder and stuff is a struggle.

As a tax accountant, my company has a holiday on the first Friday following 4/15. I have a 3 day weekend coming up. Here are some mini goals.

Sewing room under renovation:

1. Another layer of mudding under what was gaping plaster holes where the closet rod hangs.
2. Do some quantification of what's next. I think it's electrical. Schedule an electrician?
3. run some wiring (not connecting, just getting ready.)

Sewing porch, where I sew currently

1. detail clean
2. tidy, put away all the randoms
3. clear off the bed/design surface
4. detail clean the bed
5. measure all the windows (9)
6. put the ironing board back in

quiltmouse

What's on the bed?

• Smith Mountain - Bonnie Hunter: About 15 bins of various sizes, cut & uncut shirt pieces, cut bits sewed not
• Low Volume Stars: One large bin, moved
• Two wool suit bins, one to dart stage, one cut only
• 4-6 bundles of ebay buys. What was I thinking? yea. About that.
• a pair of slacks, ready for zipper & darts.
• a pair of purchased jeans, cut apart for custom fitting
• a pair of pants in use, need new elastic
• a string tank top, for the label to be removed
• 3-4 2nd hand Tshirts purchased to cut into something else
• a couple of old bras in storage for over 10 years, cut off the bits to use? dunno yet
• lots of bugs dead
• lots of bugs dead so long they've disintegrated into tiny piles of dust

I moved some things off the bed. Some things are just re-piled. I got down to the design layer. I'll vac up all the piles of extant life forms, and put the quilt rows together.

On a small chest, I have two plastic drawer sets. One drawer was recipes. One drawer was filing circa 2017. One drawer was "now" quilt and garment (craftsy) patterns (2017 presumably) and one drawer was "later." The sixth drawer is my very small quilting rulers. I pulled out all the paper for somewhere else.

I had a bigish box of thread I had purchased. I kept the box in under bed drawer. Then I had to dump it out to find a color. I don't know if I bought it from the original seller, or a re-sale person. They could no longer sell them individually, because the glue on the label on the bottom of the spools had quit and the labels were falling off. 200 different colors. It works great for garment serging, because there's always 3 related colors. Anyway, they fit perfectly in the drawers. In 4 drawers, and a 6th drawer is free.

quiltmouse

Complete blocks sets found on bed:

Oklahoma backroads - blocks completed February 2025

81 patch - blocks completed June 2023. Since then, these had been left piled in/on the top bin of a 4 drawer rolling cart. I'd revamped the cart for current usage a few weeks ago and just piled those blocks on the bed. It's 30 blocks, and it looks like I need white sashing. I think it might be muslin. So I need to take a good look at all my various whites & see if I have more of this one, or one close enough. My brain goes it has to match, be the SAME fabric. Because I've used all the same fabric as my background in the blocks. And a lot of the blocks already have two sashings attached. It's a scrappy 81 patch. I made it to use up those fabrics, using some constant fabrics in certain places for design choice. Really, any end user, aren't they going to be admiring the blocks, rather than, hmmm, the white fabric here between the blocks isn't the same as these other white bits? Sheesh.

Gemm

Yes, I think you're right, Quiltmouse, but I also know the struggle of looking at it as the person who knows those fabrics are not the same and being bothered by it. I'm slowly learning that getting something done is always better than just having it sitting there driving me nuts - so I say just go ahead and finish it with what you've got! :-)

quiltmouse

@Gemm so, I looked for the muslin. Found it under the cutting table. Original purchase 7-1/2 y of 120" wide, remainder 6-1/2 yard. I cut my sashes & got to it. Didn't get far.

Jshep

Quiltmouse- I love it. It looks like a room that gets used and I think a lot of us can relate to the chaos. I hate looking at sewing rooms that are so organized that they look like they never get used.