I have been in this house for three years now. I did a few organizational posts when I was attempting to get organized. Here they are - Rulers, Cutting Boards & Peg Board, Fabric Folding, and views of Fabric Storage (some). Then about a year later, I wrote a post about reorganizing the room. The reorganization isn't working either. The things that worked was the first round of organizing the rulers, cutting boards, peg board. The things that haven't worked partly is how the room is set up. This means moving furniture around once again.
With this round, I have drawn the room to scale. Here it is:
It is not a large room at 11 1/2' x 10'. One wall is mostly doorways either to enter room or for the closet. Another wall is more than 1/2 a window. I do have a small cabinet that will sit between the closet and entry door. You can see bits of it in the ruler post above. There is a three tier cart that sits between the closet door and the window. The peg board is behind the door which is the perfect place for it. On the same wall as the peg board, I have an Ikea cabinet that somehow manages to hold a large portion of my patterns with a shelf above it that holds jars of buttons, and other small sewing related items. Then, there is a large Ikea book shelf that is full of sewing books, knitting books, quilting books, and magazines. There isn't nothing wrong with the placement of the items on this wall.
Currently, the corning desk is occupying is corner next to the window with a Singer treadle right in front of the window. Between the sewing desk and the bookshelf is another Singer sewing machine (meant to be the machine for my quilting) and my folding cutting table. The room is full. The cutting table can be rolled out into the center and opened up. At least, that was the original plan. I can not keep my room clean. I have spilled out across the house. I need to come up with a way for this to work in such a way to keep things neat and clean.
Currently, I am contemplating putting my sewing table in front of the closet. The next step is to draw my furniture to scale and start playing with the furniture placement. It is possible that the cutting table will not open up with the sewing table placement in front of the closet. Maybe the real issue is my table. I have hauled it around for a very long time. It is possible that it is time to replace it.
I will share the scaled furniture and the various placements as I figure this out. There is one more thing that isn't working with this room. It is my fabric scrap storage. It is literally just crammed into a small three drawer cabinet. Nothing neat about it. How do you store scraps? The majority of my scraps are cotton ones that could be used for quilting type projects.
I will share as much as I'm comfortable sharing. It is very possible that I will not show the room set up with machines. I know that I talk about my various machines from time to time but I don't necessarily want to show all of them at once.
If you have organization or furniture arrange ideas, please share. I will listen to all ideas because I need help.
Happy Stitching!
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