Organized Sewing

I recently viewed a message board for quilters. This is January, the month that seems to be the universal month for organzing everything, including the space you use to sew or quilt. I began cleaning off my cutting table at the beginning of the month. This also was the beginning of a fabric sale for 50% off already reduced fabric. The once clean organized space is now covered..once again with fabric. Beware, quilting is definitely fabric addictive.

Other quilters posted their before photos of their sewing areas. I am laughing. Not at the mess of others, but my inhibition of not posting photos of my mess. The age I grew up in shamed us for messiness. It attached a stigma to your personal value if you were a "messy". That hopefully is a dead value system by now, and if not, it should be.

I guess the shadow of the shame of being messy still lurks somewhere. Otherwise, why would I even look at an organized sewing room. Actually, the ones who were sewing and making quilts were the messy ones. I did not see any sewing or quilts in progress in the beauitfully organized sewing rooms.

I will say, I enjoyed seeing what an organized sewing space is supposed to look like. My advice would be as much as possible, have a place for everything and everything in its place. Donate or throw out what you don't use. After you use "it", put it back in the place it came from. This works for me but for one exception...the 50% off fabric sale and where to put more fabric.