From Chaos to Orderly

Now the problem was fabric storage. Before we moved, I had access to lots of sales on high quality fabric, and I deliberately bought as much as I could, knowing that eventually I wouldn't have the same access to the good stuff. Now.... how to store it? My convenient closet right outside my sewing room door no longer existed, and the solution I thought would work didn't.

All you who know my husband know how talented he is, and he's also very amenable to plaintive whines about necessities. I drew a little drawing of what would work for storage, and in two days, he'd accomplished it superbly.

<===The right side of the closet was empty except for a shoe rail near the floor My idea was to put a bookcase unit here, exactly the right size for fabric.

Work begins

Shelves are in.

Jay chose a good quality pine, and there was
 no need to finish it, though he sanded it to
avoid snagging the fabric. Shelves are 
seven inches high, just the right size with no wasted space.

Braced for stability.

New Sewing room - trash to treasure

Since our move last summer from Texas to Missouri, I've been mostly throwing stuff away, it seems, though we have plenty of things left. The sewing room was left as the last challenge. I'd promised my husband I was going to put all my crafts into one room, and this job was much more difficult than I'd ever imagined. In my case "Artist" is defined as a person who buys more supplies than she uses.

As I'm writing this, the task is almost done. But here we were at the start of the project:

I took the above picture first, and was surprised to see how orderly it looked, mainly because I'd already organized the bookshelves. But I just turned around and took a photo of the rest of the room, and the true story emerges.

The pile of things in the bottom right of the picture are numerous boxes and plastic bins  not yet opened or sorted. Hours and hours tolled on before I had a handhold on this mess. The brown desk under the windows eventually left the room, but it was used for a myriad of things while I was working here. The three wire basket units were to be my fabric stash, but fabric proved to be too heavy for them. You'll see my solution in the next blog.