January - clean up

I have spent the 1st 2 weeks of January cleaning up and reorganizing my sewing room.  The peg boards with tools and threads are now neat and accessible.  The furniture is in place, so all that's left is to sort through the piles of scraps and organize my patterns.
I've had a basket to toss empty spools in for awhile.

Decided to count before I threw them away.  Many more than I thought.  Over 100!

Studio Reorganization

I repainted and reorganized my pegboard for tools and added a second one for my thread.  I have not decided yet if I should draw outlines for tool positions like my last board.  It worked nice for a quick glance to let me know what I had not put away when done.   The thread board is covered with heavy vinyl to keep dust off the threads.  It is anchored on the shelf.  For easy access I slit the vinyl about every four inches.  I also took down shelves and moved them and removed all the old teddy bears.

Studio Makeover

I am just about finished with my sewing studio.  I still need to trim with paint along the edges  of the ceiling.  These first images are of just of the beginning of the painting.  And some simple fabric birds I added to an old frame.  

 

Studio makeover in progress

Decided to repaint and organize my sewing room. These are my new colors.

Dark French Chocolate, Mint Shake and Buttercup. I have a lot of clean up from December's work and decided to just redo everything.

Trying to organize in a way that is easy to keep things organized. Thought the new colors would make everything nice and fresh. So i guess it is good bye to the kings. This oil painting was done years ago for my son. I love the sunrise, but the guys staring over my shoulder is sometimes creepy.

Still Digging Out!

My studio organization has become an eternal WIP  

With so many projects going on, I am still digging out from Christmas.  I have actually cleaned out from under the studio table  and organized stuff in clear boxes.



Nice and cleared out, right.  But now what do I do with the rest of this stuff that was lurking under the table.

 Okay so you can see as I clean I leave a new path of destruction in my wake.

Not willing to tackle this at the moment, i moved on to dusting, cleaning, sorting and reorganizing the closet.  Here is my reorganization, before I started moving other things around an had to borrow some of the boxes.

 Before and after, with dye materials organized on the bottom shelf, and large fabric pieces wrapped around empty cardboard  that holds fabric bolts in the store. (Free, if you just ask, they usually throw them away)

So I spent the rest of the evening watching Close Encounters with the family. They had the couch while I began to tackle the dreaded box that has begun oozing strings and fabric.    I am sorting scraps into 3 sizes and also by color.  I have taken over a good portion of the living-room. with my piles and haven't made a dent in the box. Just how much fabric could be stuffed into one file box.  It is sort of like the clowns at the circus coming out of the tiny cat, and just as colorful.