Do most of you have to take a day or so just to pick up and clean up your sewing room??? or is it just me who lets it get so messy, that I cannot stand it anymore??? And finally have to take a day to clean it up......

Im guilty of cleaning up at the end of the day in my sewing room and the rest of the house also. It's easier for me to stay on top of the cleaning if I pick up each day. Hugs, Judy

I try to clean between each project but don't always get it done. If I know company's coming I drag out the cleaning stuff, set in the middle of the floor and keep sewing. That way when they see the mess and the cleaning stuff they think I was just getting around to it. :)

I have a clean up day in my sewing room, and my spare dinning room, where I cut out patterns, once a month at the very least or it drives me nuts, lol! I also clean if I know I'm having company. so once ever few months it gets an extra cleaning, lol!
Diane

I cleaned mine yesterday so I could sew this weekend!!LOL

Judy / Alexgrandma

Have you ever heard of Chaos Theory? It can be demonstrated and completely proven in my sewing room. From the second I have it all neat and tidy, it begins to just fall to pieces. I have too many collections in my sewing room and it's too small, but if it were bigger, I'd just fill it up. It is definitely my happy place, filled with lots of memories and past gifts from loved ones. And, of course fabrics! When I'm doing any kind of project I made an enormous mess - the floor, the chairs, every surface gets stacked. You can barely get in the door. When I am finished, I come up for air, look around and am amazed I could do anything at in all that mess. I get everything back in its little place and chaos starts all over again! It truly is the most organized room in the house :-)

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by hightechgrammy 19 Apr 2012

I only dust when expecting company....

by spendlove 19 Apr 2012

Plenty often enough!

Think we probably all dream of a well organized craft/sewing room. My active projects are mostly spread out& am tryin to go through a few things. Problem with thinking might use this item 'some day' though& hopefully can part with more.

no its not just you my mother -in-law moved in with us and did not want the gest room had to have my sewing room noe its just the toss it in room. so next week I'm going to push my way in and just do it. Wish me luck....:)

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by shirley124 19 Apr 2012

Best of luck.

Like the rest of my house - I clean and tidy when visitors are expected!

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by gerryb 18 Apr 2012

I swear my hubby asked company over so I'll get the house all clean & straightened!

by spendlove 19 Apr 2012

Good plan!

Guilty! I make a mess when I'm sewing and clean up that mess when I'm done. The problem is that when we moved into this apt. my son and a friend were doing most of it and anything they weren't sure of they just put in the 2nd bedroom (which later got called my sewing room). It took quite a while for me to get everything back out of there and where it belonged. Only problem is because of health reasons I'm very far behind on repairs and they were even on the floor (I have them in a couple of boxes). I have now finally go t some done so I can actually walk into the sewing room without trying to make a path! (maybe my hubby and I should switch and we use the sewing room and put my sewing room in the master bedroom - lol). I keep rearranging and that keeps giving me a touch more room to put things away - so hopefully when I want something I can find it.

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by blueeyedblonde 18 Apr 2012

Oh, yes, I am also a bit of a hoarder - I can't throw things away that I think I might possibly have a use for.

Sometimes when i watch the show about Hoarding i ask myself Am I one of them? I do have lots of fabrics and laces and paints, brushes, buttons lots of craft supply everything is in the closets not outside like i see in the show, i keep organizing, and disorganizing all the same time, Last time it took me a week to organize everything, and now I have to do it again, I do not have enough shelves so i have to put everyhting one on top of other, when i get something from the bottom well my neet closet goes back to be the messy closet !!!!! LOL

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by mary51 18 Apr 2012

Reading the posts i see we are not alone!

by katydid 19 Apr 2012

my daughter has threatened to have one of those dumpster bins delivered to my driveway. Over my dead body!!!

by fabricfairy 19 Apr 2012

My daughter has made serious threats like this , but when she wants some thing its here she comes ....Mum have you got!!!!!!

I am a hoarder of everything. I just can't throw things away. So, I have now been spending valuable embroidery time to clear up my hoarded stuff and putting it in boxes so that I can , at last, hopefully, get buildincupboards to store everything in. Good luck with cleaning. I felt really good when everything was put into the boxes so that I could see what I have and have new space that I did not know I still had LOL ****

Once I start pulling fabrics out...the room falls apart. Sometimes I get my folding laundry rack just to drape possible fabrics, that I might use...that helps a little rather then heaping them up on every clear service. Also my husband love to put random things on my one clear table LOL He figures he doesn't know what to do with them so maybe I will.....I love my girl cave

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by robinbird 19 Apr 2012

Folding rack for fabrics is a nice idea. Thanks for sharing it. :~D

I have to pick up after every project or it gets to where I can't move for the clutter. I'm really bad about not putting the thread back where it belongs when I'm through with a color... I'm a messy crafter!

MJDG

If you clean it up, you will not find anything. I found out it is better to leave unfinished projects out facing you until you finish them. I will admit that I am a pack rat with my sewing notions and fabric. Ever so often. I purge myself of old patterns and fabric. but it is hard to do. Good luck. Kay

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well, I've let mine get so bad that I think I need whole weekend!

If I start a project you would think a tornado had hit my sewing room,I wish I was more organized I would get more done.

You are not alone, sometimes just clean in front to let it look tidy, but other days it is like a twister that went thru my sewing room Hugs Marie

My daughter insists on a clean room, so we have made progress! Live Laugh Clean Download Stitch!

A clean sewing room?! Is that even possible? Periodically I can't stand it anymore and clean, clean, clean. But otherwise, my days just hum along with my sewing and embroidery machines. :)

A messy room is a sign of creativity. If it were clean I would think you never went in there. We all have messy rooms. We are all creative.!! Suzanne

After each big project I do a big tidy. It does not work with small projects. They seem to make more mess and I don't tidy because the next thing is waiting!

I am redoing my sewingroom, which is a large extra livingroom, that I don't need anymore because I'm alone. My daughter is putting in a scrapebooking area at the other end of the room, so she is helping me move, because I'm not moving fast enough! Anyway, My grandson said he's going to turn me in as a Hoarded. I told him "Its crafting, big difference". Ha1Ha!

No you are not alone. That is what I did yesterday. Lovely to walk into a neat and tidy sewing room this morning. Shirley

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by jenne 18 Apr 2012

Amen to that, sometimes mine get so messy I can not contiue until I clean, I spend all day at time in mine.

My sewing room is in a mess right now I am working on a project , then it will get a clean the grandies call Grandma treasuer room because I can always find some thing in there to solve a problem. It is my idea of heaven . Cathy

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by shirley124 18 Apr 2012

I love the name your grandies call your room.

by emily16838 18 Apr 2012

I love the name too. I always have candy in my sewing room

Takes me a couple days to clean mine as it's got so much stuff in their but I try to keep it neat. Just a hoarder and can't get rid of anything so clean around it.

You are not alone.

I'm lucky as I have a big room and everything has a place. I clean up every day, love Chris

My fabrics are stored in one location, and my sewing machines get covered up at night. But I have such a tiny space that I just have to move stuff from one horizontal surface to another when I'm working. I try to pick up as I'm going because that is the only way that I have any work around room at all.

at the end of each day, my sewing room gets swept and everything in its place for a fresh start the next day, I hate starting my day in a mess.

Oh mercy me! My sewing room is small & messy! Even when I aim at the trash can, I miss 50% of the time! I'm calling in help in July when my daughter is here for a week! Shhhh, don't tell her! Afraid one day wouldn't do it!!

When I am busy with many projects I always have a mess. You are not alone. it's the curse of Embroidery. lol Don't fret over it. Just enjoy and clean when you have time.

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by phi4 19 Apr 2012

I am with you, I have a huge sewing room, I am afraid, the larger the room, the larger the mess too.

Well luckily it does not take a whole day to clean up. I can't work in a messy room sew I do have to put the fabric back on the shelves and straighten up a bit before I start a new project. I wish I could keep my whole house as nice as my sewing room looks. LOL

lol I was just thinking that about my mess. I couldnt find something and well now there is a mess..I think we all have a mess somewhere..I can't work until I clean it up..you are not alone..