Have you Tinkled Today?

I’ve been making myself batty with my sewing room (rooms?).  With the addition of the HQ16, the space problem of course has become worse, and the clutter was as bad as it was in the RV… and I simply can’t function in chaos.  So I’ve not been sewing much lately, even though I have tons I want to do.

Click for larger viewThis morning I couldn’t stand it anymore, and since I haven’t been able to come up with a workable solution (using the stuff I have on hand, without resorting to buying special cabinets) and I pulled every last thing out of my sewing room, vacuumed, and then started putting everything back.

It’s just about back to the same way I had it when I first set it up, but minus the huge printer which takes up so much space, and minus one 3’x6’ table (I don’t think I posted pictures of the room with that table in here, it used to be on the landing prior to moving Jim’s office out there).

With the printer out of here, I moved my iMac over to the corner of the two banquet tables, and the table on the left is the cutting table with the six foot mat and grid on it, that I had custom cut to fit the table.  I have my 630 on this table, and can scoot it forward when sewing, and have ample space to the left and rear of the machine.  I also took the small TV out of here, as I wasn’t using it.

I moved the Babylock cover stitch machine over to the end of the other table, of my machines it’s the least used one, beingClick for larger view more of a specialized machine.  I made sure I left leg room underneath those two machines, but moved three of the plastic carts under the cutting table.

On my old Koala cabinet, the 730 is set up for embroidery, and the serger.  Both these need a stable surface to work on, and won’t work well on the banquet tables… tried that.

Tucked behind the swing out door to the Koala cabinet I have my makeshift ironing table, which is simply a 3’x3’ folding banquet/card table, covered with a thin layer of batting and canvas that’s just clamped down.

 Click for larger viewI moved the rest of the plastic storage carts into the HQ16 room, but I may move them back into my sewing room, I haven’t made up my mind.

Anyway, I think I can think straight now, and can get back to the fun of sewing, and my spaceClick for larger view is spotless again, nothing like pulling everything out to clean!

If anyone saw the summer issue of Quiltmaker’s Quilting and Embroidery, there is the mostClick for larger view darling toddler quilt on the front cover I think I’ve ever seen, the theme being the nursery rhyme “Five Little Monkeys”.  I don’t have any little ones in my life, but this embroidered quilt was just too cute to pass up the designs, which I purchased.  I may have to make one of these for charity.

We got tons of rain, with the remnants of Gustav passing through, and some high winds that knocked a small tree down in back and took out a small section of our fence, which Jim fixed promptly.

I’ve been putting it off for days but can’t any longer, I guess I better go to the store and get a few things, yuck.