Starting the Year with a Sort Out

How do you store your fabric? 

I have emerged from several days in my sewing room, restoring it to a place to stitch and be creative rather than somewhere to dump things that weren't needed over the Christmas period. 

I keep fabric in plastic storage boxes, but how to organise it?  I have ended up with:

Plain colours 

Plain black, white or natural 

Patterned, lengths

Patterned, FQs

Japanese

New Zealand & Australian

African and batiks

Christmas

Blue

Then there were the projects to organise. (Yes, this wasn't all a result of the Christmas dumping).  I have new projects to start, started projects to finish, started projects that probably won't be finished...and some projects that I'd completely forgotten about. 

Threads.      Gadgets & Tools.      Notions.     Books.   

I think things will work, I've found my sewing table, which has got to be a good  start. 

Sewing Room and a Parcel!

Just as I was taking photographs for this blog a parcel arrived from ZandS Fabrics so here's a picture of the gorgeous contents. The green is backing for a hanging based on the Norfolk Broads that is waiting to happen, the rest is for Lynne Edwards' first sampler quilt which is going to go on our bed - I was aiming for an Egyptian terracotta and dark blue mix and I think the Tonga Treasures is not quite the right blue - I might have to order something else!

This is fantastic, my sewing room is ready to go (if I ignore the stuff under the sheet on the upper level which is my darling son's and awaiting transfer to his home, eventually). Here's where I will sit and sew, and gaze out of the window too.

In the "under the bed" area are assorted bags of projects to start and those started and awaiting further work!

Music - what do you listen to while you're sewing? I tend to have Radio 2 or Radio 4 and if I'm FMQ I'll go for something suiting the style, classical or pop, it just has to be the right rhythm and speed. The dresser holds books and magazines, fabric, wadding and some finished fabric boxes (and bits and pieces, hopefully out of sight), oh and loads of beads waiting to be sorted out!

It's not a very big room but it's mine, all mine!!

Getting there

Quick post with good news - the carpet is down and the table is in....and so is ALL my sewing stuff, in a big heap waiting to be sorted out! Watch this space for more news of my very own sewing room :)