I am not a neat person when I am sewing. I have strings and scraps everywhere! I have a couple of the little scrap/string/trash bags that hang on the machine. Who has time to look and throw something in it? :lol: It's just the way I sew and I've gotten used to it. I grab the vacuum every now and then and just give the rug a cleaning. I am neat when I cook and other things I do, but sewing just sets my creativity free I guess. This is not a habit I learned from my mom. She was the neatest person I've ever known when she was sewing. She could sew all day; get up from the machine; and you could not tell she'd been close to the machine at all. I never could figure it out. :lol: :lol: