oksewglad

I cleaned out my email inbox tonight...May think of unsubscribing from some blogs I don't get much from...Will cut down on computer time...more time to sew...

tkhooper

I've really been busy getting some projects done while waiting on a class to start. Not so much organizing but getting with the program and using what I had organized. Which is good because I was running out of room.

I have washed, ironed, and folded some fabric I was given. I haven't quite figured out where I'm going to store that. But at least it is ready to be stored.

oksewglad

NotWendy the word jeans must have entered my subconscience...I dug out my 2 large baskets and started deconstructing...got 12 pairs ripped apart..I used to save the components, but never did anything with them so into the garbage they go. One leg fixed 2 pair of MrOK's work jeans..one was an almost new pair he must've got caught on a fence. I discovered the beginnings of 2 jean rugs and got them sewn together...they make great mud room rugs. They come up missing as they also make makeshift calf blankets..

tkhooper

way to go oksewglad. I got a chuckle out of the missing rugs comment.

oksewglad

I don't mind them being used it's that they don't bring them back...men...

Pudge

I inventoried all non-fabric items in my sewing room in Excel. I listed the item, qty on hand, and its location in my sewing room. I got tired of not being able to find anything. I printed the spreadsheet and pinned (4 pages) to a bulletin board. I've used it twice already to find something. It's helping me avoid the frustrated "where is it" feeling. I am returning everything I use to its designated spot. So far anyway!

rryder

Pudge- good job getting organized and maintaining the system you set up! That's always the hard part for me.

I have dug through all the layers on all horizontal surfaces in my sewing area, removed things that aren't sewing related to another room and returned all sewing items not currently being used to their designated spots. How do all those other things get interleaved with with my sewing stuff????? And how is it that I put everything away just last week and today not one horizontal surface in my sewing area was useable without shuffling the piles around?????



Rob

Pudge

Rob - I agree - where does the chaos come from? Can't be us!

tkhooper

I ditto that. The minute my back is turned everything is piled on the cutting table. Does sewing equipment and supplies have legs?

I have piles again today and it's like do I quilt or do I put away.

rryder

At the risk of subverting this thread, I say Quilt!

thanks to the goal setting thread I managed to designate a home for my excess batting and felt so it isn't taking up space on the guest bed. Still haven't located the gremlin that actually creates the rest of the mess....

Rob