Organizing, again!!!

I wish the organizing fairy would  come to my house.  I try really hard to keep everything organized but no matter how hard I try, I still have a  mess.  I discovered that my thread was in just too much of a mess, I had no idea what thread I had and how  much.  This is a photo of the drawer where I had thrown all of my thread, and I do mean thrown. 

After seeing the neat thread organizers that my friend Becky had purchased, I decided that this was something that I definitely needed.  I ordered two of these thread cases from Connecting Threads.  They are wonderful, there is space on both sides of the container for thread.  I organized it by color, one cases has all neutral threads the other one has all of my different colors.  I still have some spools that wouldn't fit but for the most part all of my thread is now wonderfully organized.

After the thread came working on patterns.  I admit that I am a pattern alcoholic.  I have so  many patterns, some I have used others I just hope to use one day!  I had been keeping them in the original plastic bag they were purchased in a unfortunately had just been throwing them in plastic tubs.  Anytime I wanted a pattern I had to look through all of the tubs.  Not easy, which also lead to purchasing duplicates of several patterns.  I am in the process of putting all of my patterns in plastic sleeves and placing them in binders.  I have some already done, and thought that I had a photo, it must be out there in blog land somewhere.  Now if I can just keep everything organized and get to sewing.

Trying to reorganize

After going to the workshop sponsored by the Gwinnett Guild a couple of weeks ago I am trying to get more organized in my sewing room.  (it isn't easy, I am taking baby steps)  One of the first things I decided to do was something with my bulletin board.  This is on the wall above my sewing table, yes I face the wall when I sew, I know you shouldn't but I do, at least for now.  I had just a regular cork bulletin board with a hodgepodge of stuff up.



I took everything off and covered it with batting and upholstery fabric.  I decided to go with yellow, red and turquoise in my sewing room.

I found some turquoise ribbon and upholstery tacks in with some of my sewing stuff and decided to spruce it up a bit.  Before putting anything back on it, I went through everything and only kept the things that I absolutely needed or wanted, got rid of lots of little odds and ends.  It doesn't seem like much but it is a start.  Watch for future updates on organizing my sewing room.