While Chris Pennifold is in one side of the world sewing Mrs Santa, I am on the other side and have done Santa. Wonder if they will meet?

Love your Santa who knows maybe they will meet;-).
A couple of years ago we moved. We very carefully packed and labeled all boxes so they would be ready for the boys. After they had it mostly loaded one of the boys thought he had to point out how many boxes were marked sewing room. So he drew a cartoon of a moving van and a trailer with Mom's sewing. Kids (no matter how old they are)!!

Love your Santa!! The sewing room is also the extra bedroom so it gets nicely organized when there are guests, which is only three or four times a year, except for this year. I do tidy up after a few projects, I can only handle so much mess but what a mess it is with fabric, stabilizer, sewing tools, and thread on the cutting table, sewing table, bed and chest of drawers.

Your Santa is beautiful. You are so lucky having a sewing room. Although I use my own sitting room to sew in I still have to clear everything away as I am fairly tidy and hate mess.

He is darling!! just love him. I too have a messy sewing room only I am allowed in there.

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by jenne 09 Nov 2020

Can one really sew in a clean room?

He is Stunning!!!Can`t see Any Hiccups????Well done!!!!

I love your Santa! Your work is amazing! Once up on a time my sewing room was organized. Now it is in the well known CHAOS decor. I am ok with that, I am the only on who sees it. Cutting table, fabric etc are in the guest bedroom. I keep saying I am going to flip my master bedroom and sewing room. If I do I would have more room for more mess!

Love your Santa, Caroline....to say my sewing room was "organized chaos" would be very kind...although I can say that I can probably lay my hands on most anything that I might need or look for...god forbid someone would come and think they were "helping" and "organize" my room...I would be totally lost if they moved anything...

He's so handsome! You and Chris put me to shame. I love your pair, your Mr and her Mrs.

My sewing room is tidy compared to my kitchen (which has the greatest counter for cutting) where there is always fabric piled up for cutting, my dining room where I have started to stack sewing stuff when I'm cleaning up the kitchen, and my bedroom that gets the overflow. My husband's office, the bathrooms, and 3/4ths of the living room look pretty good though.

Hi Caroline, I've usually got all my fabrics on my cutting table, but when doing applique, as you know, there is always bits of fabric for the design you are making. I have all the threads needed sitting next to the machine, so it still looks messy. I can empathise with you!!!!!!! Love Chris

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by asterixsew 08 Nov 2020

Well Chris my cutting table is on the floor below and is the dining table. The only time my sewing room was tidy was when it was being set up. I have a tray of threads at the side of me on the floor as I sew that are there just for that piece of work otherwise most threads are in a small chest of drawers.

Love Santa.

I have a sewing room, and like everyone else it is a mess, but I can find everything. Also the spare bedroom is now called the annex as I have flowed into it, plus the cupboards in the old dinning room are full of craft things and fabric. We put an extension on the back of the house many years ago so I could have somewhere to sew, in doing that we lost the dinning room, but the extension was very large and we divided it up into sewing area, dinning area and in one corner I created a library for all my books. The kids left home years ago just the two of us, me in my sewing room and my darling in his study. I am always telling the family this is how we like it. I think we are all entitled to a sewing room or space and once it is ours do what you want with it and in it. LOL

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by graceandham 08 Nov 2020

Remember the old TV spy Maxwell Smart who went to C.H.A.O.S. to get his assignment?? My sewing area is organized C.H.A.O,S,

I love your santa too. Wouldn't it be fun if you and Chris could meet up someday. And no, my sewing room is packed floor to ceiling. I do try to keep stuff off the floor to make it a bit safer for me to move around, but any surface is fair game for a pile of this or that project I have in progress.

Oh, isn't he so cute!!! I have a room for sewing too! It is wonderful to be able to just close the door - I am just too busy right now to do a clean-up! Hugs, Laura

He looks great. Hugs

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by asterixsew 07 Nov 2020

Thanks very much. He is the first of the 5 Santas in the design

If I sew upstairs in my sewing room, no one ever sees it unless someone I know needs help and I invite her over. I know my space is more tidy than about 3 of my sewing buddies that I have seen their messes but mine still looks a mess. I have so many plastic and decorative boxes I've purchased for the sole purpose of tidying up and restacking--Not done. Trying to decide what to do is nearly impossible. I have my Ellisimo Gold on a table down here in my t.v. room area and an entertainment cabinet where I hide all the goodies I use for that. After bringing that machine downstairs to take to a new owner class my husband said it is never going back up there again--too heavy---I get more light down here anyway. As I live in a very rural area I don't get any if much company so sometimes I even set up a 4 ft. table and another sewing machine and work from that downstairs. I do cover up things when I am done or done for the daythough.

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by asterixsew 07 Nov 2020

I shut the door at the end of my sewing day. I realise that I would have been better choosing a larger room when we moved but I do love the one I chose, sadly its too small

You are not alone!!! I have wall to wall mess with fabric, thead, etc. all over the tops and floor of each of my sewing rooms (I have an upstairs room for quilting and a downstairs room for ME) that are so embarrassing that I don't let people see them! Some days I have to step over quilts in progress that are all over the floor. Heaven forbid that I should put stuff away as it seems I can never find what I want again. All I can say is seeing all this stuff makes me happy and I enjoy looking at all the different fabrics and thread colors everywhere. So, I just relax and enjoy what I see and don't worry about being a messy sewer.

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by asterixsew 07 Nov 2020

Oh I love you. My sewing room is a no go area for others due to the mess/creativity. My embroidery machines are on one level and currently my sewing machine is downstairs where other sewing takes place. A plus of lockdown is no visitors and the dining table isn’t needed. You also vertically keep fabrics as I do. Can’t find stuff on shelves

by crafter2243 07 Nov 2020

Love you Santa. !!!!
I love you guys It is so nice to know that I am not the only one whose craft room is a mess. I am fortunate that it is upstairs and my living room quarters are orderly. Every time I am trying to straighten it out I fail miserabel or if I create some order, I can not find a thing afterward. I am too old to remember where I organized to.