how neat are you?
08-22-2010, 03:17 PM
#171
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 659
Originally Posted by SandyinZ4
Looks lke I fit right in with the majority of you and so I will be brave and add on a view of part of my sewing room. I have shelves on two walls with fabric and genealogy books that don't show in picture. I probably have more fabric than I can ever use but I am trying. I aim for the waste basket when I am sewing but mostly if they end up on the floor they stay there until project is finished. Thn I pick them all up and vacumn. It is so nice to have a place just for sewing that I don't mind that my space is small..it works for me. I have a chunk of W & N stapled onto the closet (which is filled with bins of scraps)door and I use that for my design board. Really helps at times. I am happy with my stuffed shelves but know that I really need to tidy them up someday. Ok..don't say I didn't warn you.
08-22-2010, 03:38 PM
#173
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Down in the Boondocks
Posts: 175
Mine is a mess but, not from quilting. I have it torn apart and am going to get rid of the horrible purple that my granddaughter had because it was her br before she went back to her mom to live. Then hopefully I'll get the courage to try starting my first, yes first, quilt. The dark Barney purple in there just turns me off at the moment but when I get threw it should be nice and light and peaceful. (I hope)
08-22-2010, 04:52 PM
#174
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northern New Hampshire
Posts: 1,936
I'm not an extreme neat freak however, I find I accomplish my quilting if I keep thinks picked up and in one place. I'm short on space so it has to functional. I have diabetes so making sure pins picked up is a must, I can't afford having a pin imbedded in my foot and not feling it until it's grossly infected.
08-22-2010, 04:56 PM
#175
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: North Oxford MA
Posts: 943
Originally Posted by raptureready
Remember how Edward Scissorhands made it snow by creating ice sculptures? That's me when I sew---snippets, threads, pins, fabric, bobbins, scissors, flying every direction. I'm my own war zone and I'm dangerous. Then when I'm done with my project I look around in amazement wondering where all the mess came from.
08-22-2010, 06:52 PM
#176
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: West Jordan, Utah
Posts: 661
Yes it is messy, I have one small bedroom for my computer, card making, quilling, doll clothes and dolls, e-bay stuff, my favorite things, sewing, beading, my toys and games for children to play with, ribbon work, and storage. It is a mess, but it is also a very busy room. I often will clean up a section at a time.
08-22-2010, 06:56 PM
#177
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: North Fork Ca
Posts: 8,234
I am currently working on my sewing studio. Just put up one whole wall of design wall. I love it. But now there is a tape measure, levels, carpenters glue, pieces of styrofoam and other construction material all over the place, but I did put my quilt on the wall so it is easier to work on. One more day and I will reorganize. HAhahahahaha sounds good at least
08-22-2010, 09:54 PM
#179
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Boise. Idaho
Posts: 176
I guess im fairly neat. I have a little metal bucket i got at a second hand store for .75 and it sits on a little table under the big table and it holds all my threads and cuttings. I keep certain things in one spot on the "working" table. I live in a very small place and must be neat or it would take over my whole living room and kitchen. Im no fun lol
08-23-2010, 01:16 AM
#180
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Queensland Australia
Posts: 1,388
I am the same. once the project is finished then and only then do I clean up before I start again--more mess until the quilt is finished. It is good to see I am not the only one who does that. In my room (which is 4meters square), there are plastic drawers in an alcove 8 drawers high by 2 rows. built in cupboards on 2 sides. 3 sides have doors which cannot be covered and plastic boxes color coded with fabric packed high under the table and desk and colored boxes color coded in the shelves to the left of where I sit now. My sewing machine is set up in front of one of the cupboards and I only nmove it if I need to get into the cupboard. I can still walk around but not by much. I also have 2 large paint buckets, 1 by the table the other beside my desk for rubbish and they are nearly overflowing. So I am in a messy room. I sweep it if visitors come so it looks a little tidy, not often. I still have about 20 meters of fabric I washed but not get got to iron yet. :oops:
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