Clean Up Your Sewing Room!

[she-quilts]

We all, sooner or later, seem to end up with a messy sewing room....fabric everywhere, tools scattered about, papers and magazines and spools of thread in teetering piles... (except for ONE person I know, who lives in Goleta, CA -- you know who you are). But, it's often hard to take valuable time away from quiltmaking to straighten things up.

I've found a great way to get things tidy: On those occasional nights when I find myself unable to sleep, instead of lying awake in the dark trying to drop off, I get up and pick up the sewing room! :idea:

After a half hour or 45 minutes, everything is put away, the room is *exceptionally* neat, and I'm ready to go back to bed and fall asleep.

Try it!

[she-quilts]

Problem is trying to clean quietly.... If I wake up DH there would be Hxxx to pay.... so the room stays dirty till he is off to work... My favorite insomnia cure is to put in one of my OLD MARTHA STEWART tapes from her old show... her delivery is so modulated... I fall asleep every time... the TV is programed to shut itself off.

[she-quilts]

I just told my favorite husband that I was being sent to my sewing room to clean it up!!! I told him it was an ORDER!! LOL

I have just rearranged my sewing room. I have cleaned, folded and organized. It really is a pleasure to sew.
I can now see my fabric...which is an obscene amount. I am glad to move everything out of bins and boxes and put it on shelves. No matter how I labeled the storage boxes...I never knew what I had.
This has helped me stop buying repeats of fabric I already own.

It also gave me a chance to clean out my stash. I gave my quilting gals an opportunity to 'shop'. What was left, a local church group accepted my donation. I like that my unused fabric has a new home with those who will put it to good use. My taste in fabric and colors have changed. It has given me the freedom to use the fabric I love and not have the guilt of not using the fabric I have on hand.

FW

[she-quilts]

I will happily clean up the sewing room after I finish my next 2 quilts.

[she-quilts]

I generally do a "big clean" any time a quilt is finished, or at least "finished for now"-- which recently happened, and this reminds me how nice it IS to work in a clean space. I know it won't stay that way, but at least for the moment...
I have been getting better organized this year (thanks AGAIN Margo!) my stash is more manageable, and I can actually find fabric I want to USE instead of running out for more...

Florence

[she-quilts]

Mmmm... and what do you tell the "not so favorite" hubby? LOL Nice to have multiple choices, you go girl!

I spent the day before yesterday pulling every stick of furniture out of my sewing room, cleaning it and carefully putting most of it back in, much better!

Have you "Tinkled" today?

I just told my favorite husband that I was being sent to my sewing room to clean it up!!! I told him it was an ORDER!! LOL
FW

[littleflower]

I am so glad that I'm not the only one who thought of "which hubby"... javascript:emoticon(':lol:') :lol:
Teri

[Stinki]

more than one hubby? Perish the thought, one is more than enough trouble! LOL

Carla

[Stinki]

He can be one the 'Favorite List'...and then his name will appear on the "Un-favorite list'...LOL

He usually is always on the Favorite Husband list.

But since I have been married three times...he is the 'Favorite Husband'!!!

FW

[Quiltcamp]

I'm both looking forward and dreading cleaning my sewing room. We are replacing windows in the house and I have to make room in my sewing room for the workmen to reach the windows in there. Then since my room will be in more of a mess than usual I'm going to paint the walls. I'm looking forward to the finished project but the mess inbetween will be hard to take. But I do love a clean sewing room. I think I get more inspired when it's cleaned up. But then the clean room doesn't last too long after the start of another project.
I'm loving the touch of fall in the air here in Northern Michigan. The quilting bug is starting to bite.........

[Quiltcamp]

For the past week I have been putting my sewing together. A nice fresh coat of paint on the walls and the woodwork. My DH painted my sewing table and a couple of other pieces of furniture. I had a mish-mash of furniture, now at least it looks more together. Since this is a new room for me it is taking me forever to find the 'right' place for everything. It is very exciting and it feels so clean :-) Cannot wait to jump into a project, hopefully next week.
Yesterday was so humid, we had the remnants of Hanna, but tonight there is a fall-like crispness in the air...I love it. If you don't like the weather here in New England just wait a minute.
Sylvia

[Quiltcamp]

Wish I had a sewing room to clean! Actually I have one, I just need to get rid of the bedroom furniture and put all my sewing and quilting stuff in it. Boy do I have plans! I'm already buyin' stuff! I love it when school supplies are on clearance!
Sherry in S MS

[Quiltcamp]

well, my sewing room also gets cleaned whenever my MIL visits... it's also the guest room. That's when EVERYTHING gets put away, although not always in the proper place :? ops:
Florence

[Quiltcamp]

My room gets cleaned when I lose something Happy

[Quiltcamp]

When I clean up my room I usually cannot find things. When its messy I know exactly where everything is. Is this just me? Sandi in FL