Sewing Room Makeover

On the door a wonderful postcard sent by a  Siblings Together Bee member. It has a "do not enter" aspect to it!

I took advantage of the quiet 12 Days of Christmas to thoroughly clean my sewing room which involved tidying and moving furniture so I did one of my periodic rearrangements. Every time I do this I think "this is it" only to change round again as stuff silts up. This time though I'm finding it lovely to work in.
I was reluctant to have my back to the window but it means the up down switches on my table are readily accessible in order to change from sewing to cutting mode. The iron is handily behind and if I have it at a lower height I just have to swivel round for repeated bits of ironing and then I get to see through the window and give my eyes a break. The bookshelves are still a bit untidy but that's a job for another day.

The  Picture is a print of one by Hans
Heysen showing his wife at her sewing
machine. The machine and window are
still there but the woman is no more.

Untidy shelves. If only I didn't keep files
of stuff. The tall thin wardrobe is packed
with UFO's. EEK.

Rulers kept in Seminole pouch

Table rises and falls at press of  two
buttons. Ironing board in front of the window.
I have a Sewezi Grande machine table.
I got rid of my Horn Cabinet as too bulky.

Fabric folded over a piece of card cut to fit shelf proportions. This saves space and I can ore easily see what I have. I pull out the card 8" by 14" once the piece is folded. FQs folded smaller and in drawers.

Entrance: the hamper came from my son as a Christmas present and holds my Jan Hassard project which I am enjoying. The sheep hanging is  by Gail Lawther.

Order restored

And you thought it would never all go back in. I had a very happy time filling up the drawers and putting a card in each one with a list of contents. Similarly I pinned a list of contents to the inside of the small wardrobe door. My tidy room was inviting me to sew something so I added some more strips to my bedside runner but perhaps I need another one for that new chest of drawers.

Chaos in my sewing room

I've had a very annoying chest of drawers in my sewing room. I liked the fact there were seven drawers so it was easy to allot different items and see them all but the runners had worn and the drawers were collapsed on each other. Finally I've got round to buying a replacement and today was delivery day. The new set has six drawers but they are bigger and glide in and out like a dream and the whole thing is on castors so easier to shunt round my sewing room, the only room in the house I constantly reorganise. To prepare I emptied the drawer contents out on the bed and emptied the wardrobe and some protruding items on bookshelves in order to clear a pathway for the new chest. I came across things I'd forgotton, others I'd lost and some I can't remember having at all! More for the to do list. The overflow was piled on the low cupboards in our spare bedroom. So tomorrow is putting it back together day.