Room to move

I've spent the most enjoyable day trying to sort out my sewing space.  The morning started when I remembered I had a pair of my daughters trousers to take up...(yep, that's right she's short like me. Funny that, don't know how that happened. lol...)  Anyway, I walked into the room but I had so much stuff everywhere I started cleaning up, sorting out and taking anything that shouldn't be in this room out instead.

Suffice to say, I had a wonderful time rediscovering fabrics I had forgotten about but then wondering what it was I had in mind when I bought others.  Still, all in all I didn't find anything that said "what the..." 

I decided the best way to store my fabric was in colour groups.  This way I can see exactly what I have, after all, you never know, the perfect fabric could be sitting right here just waiting to be chosen.  As you can see in the pics, besides having a lot of neutrals I do have a large amount of blues but not much else and besides the whites nearly everything is a print of some kind.  I think maybe I should branch out and start getting some plains in there, don't you think?  After all plains are easier to work into your wardrobe, aren't they?

My new sewing room

Newly stacked shelving

Front view of shelving

As I said in my last post, this is a small room and and this is by no means the total of all my fabric.  I have some stored in tubs in the wardrobe (oh yeah, you can't see it, it's behind me) along with my patterns.  I have plenty more patchwork as well as dressmaking fabric not to mention any stuff for the other crafts I dabble in back in Melbourne waiting to be relocated.  Then there's also the books that are so essential to my creativity.  Wow, the list goes on and on.  It's making me feel overwhelmed just thinking about it, aahhhh....but what would I do without it?  (Insanity comes to mind. lol)

So... this is still a work in progress.  If you have any suggestions for storage in this small room I would love to hear them.  In the meantime, I now have some space to get some sewing done.  Yay!!

BTW, I did get DD's trousers taken up as well.  What a great day...

Changes

Spectacular beaches

Whales visit here in Winter

Wow!!  Don't you just love my new location?  We finally decided it was time for that sea change and leave the city forever.  (Well not exactly, we still have half our things in the city including DH. lol)  Still, I'm ecstatic!  It really is the best place to live.

I didn't realize how long it's been since I last posted.  So much has been going on.  A new location, a new job, very little internet download, and sadly no sewing...(ho hum!)  It's taking time for me to get my sewing things moved and in order.  I've got new shelving to store things but unfortunately my space is smaller than before and I just don't know where to put anything.  Ideally I should purge but I must say I really, really aren't very good at getting rid of things, particularly when they pertain to my sewing.  Everyone's like that aren't they?  What I'm saying is... you never know when you might just want that small remnant of fabric for a trim or something, know what I mean?  I guess I'll get it all here (there's still a fair bit waiting to get moved) and sorted eventually.  I hope it doesn't take too long, as I'm itching to start sewing again.

In the meantime, I have started to knit a baby jacket for our first grandchild due in May and have been searching for fabric to sew a few things.  Isn't it funny how you can get the perfect fabric when you don't need it, but when you want it there's none to be found anywhere.  I didn't realize how hard it was to find the right fabric.  Oh well, I'm sure something will turn up soon.

Till next time...