What's She Hiding Anyway?

A few of the Facebook comments on my last blog post made me realize that people might feel the room was too tidy to be believed. Maybe they are thinking that a creative person's domain could not possibly remain that way for long? I've decided to show you what is hiding behind that wall of Kallax cubes.

 

The white bins that are not open hide all my sewing patterns, my boro stitching supplies, and other crafting things like pine needle basketry, a glue gun, doll wig supplies and more. 

The drawers store all my sewing and serging threads and bobbins, sorted by size then colour of course.  ;) 

The bottom baskets are chock full of fabric, sorted by type.

The needed, but rarely used, small shaped ironing board and a sleeve board are hidden between this unit and the wall.

It is all well organized, but it is still an awful lot of visual clutter and I prefer to keep it behind closed doors. I don't work well in a chaotic environment. Along that same line, I have no television, radio, or stereo in my creative workspaces. I prefer working in silence.

On the other side of the room the doors on the pressing station hide my iron and other pressing tools. The baskets on the lower level are full of fabric, sorted by type. The drawers hide all the measuring, cutting, and pinning supplies I like on hand as well as dressmaker's tracing paper, small cutting mats, rotary cutters, and rulers. On the floor hidden underneath the unit is a couple of mid sized cutting mats and a longer grid ruler. I keep my larger cutting mats hanging from a skirt hanger behind the door to the room.

The drawers to my sewing table hold all of my interfacings and stabilizers, machine manuals and accessories, machine and hand-sewing needles. Under the table and just visible to the left of the drawers is a rack I use to hold taller rolls of dress maker's pattern vellum and a roll of butcher's paper. 

The little bit of "clutter" I allow out in the open are things I grab for frequently while sewing; pins, clips, various scissors, snips, tweezers, a sewing awl, elastic glides, my handmade needle book with my favourite hand-sewing needles, a bobbin winder, and a collection of sewing machine feet. The mint tin actually stores broken needles and pins and will eventually be safely discarded. 

So there you go, my mess hidden behind closed doors, for the sake of my peace and sanity. 

The weaving room next door is much more crowded and cluttered, but I'm working on it!

Time to STOP

Okay, that's it, I'm done with the mess! I've enjoyed the weaving so far, but the mess associated with weaving in a tapestry-esk manner is just getting to me. I really need to stop and move on to a less messy weaving style.

I am normally a very organized and tidy person. My craft areas are the exception. While I'm actually working on a project, and need things nearby, it can really get out of hand! The problem is I am usually working on several different things at once. This means that there are messes in more than one area of the house and that, working on various interests in rotation, any one particular project may have to sit for awhile waiting for me to return to it.

That's where the weaving has been for a bit. I've been distracted for the past month by spinning in the 23 day long Tour de Fleece, and when I haven't been spinning my available time has been absorbed by exploring wire wrapping techniques. The weaving room has been a disaster zone for too long. I can no longer stand walking by the open door.

I'll post an update photo in a few days.

I hope.