Happy New Year, everyone! I'm looking forward to a productive year of sewing. Hope you are, too!
To get the year off to a great start, I love to participate in the Final Countdown Challenge hosted by Shelly of Prairie Moon Quilts. It runs until January 7th, when she'll do the drawings for prizes, so it's not too late to jump in and by doing so, you'll have a more organized creative space to enjoy!
You can read all about it HERE
So for the first task: Clear off your main work surface.
Mine was fairly tidy as it's just a small drafting table.
So I picked the very first task Shelly posted 12 years ago when she started doing this challenge, and it was to put a binding on a quilt. I found a very old UFO that has been sitting on a shelf, waiting for it's binding.
I'm still working on finishing this up.
For the second task: Clean up the fabric storage and stray fabric piles.
I decided to move my fabrics from a cupboard to a wall storage unit, where I'd had books and magazines. This is how it looks now:
It may look messy, but seeing scraps and fabrics just makes me happy, and helps motivate me to create something, so I wanted to see them more; crazy as that sounds! Now most of my fabrics are in this corner, except for bulkier fabrics and on-going projects that have their designated fabrics boxed up with them. I purged a lot of my fabrics this year, and want to continue to use up what I have.
And this is where my fabrics had been stored. It is a cupboard that my grandfather made in 1974. I think it will work better to store the books and magazines.
For the third task: Take stock/organize/deal with unfinished projects.
I've been working on this the past year, going through my projects and deciding what I wanted to keep or discontinue making. Those that I did want to continue with, I have boxed up in clear totes, labeled and put under my cutting table. I'd really like to complete many of them, this year.
They are all listed here, except for a few small random projects. I sure hope to make some progress on them this year!
So this is my sewing room now, all cleaned up, thanks to Shelly's challenges:
Left side of room:
Right side of room, where my design board is:
I really do enjoy this challenge each year. I find it fun, too, in that I can look back and see how I've arranged things in the past. It's also nice reading and getting ideas from other's on how they store and manage their creative spaces. I love peeking into other's sewing room's!
So if you have some time to organize your creative space over the next few days, hop on over to Shelly's blog and join in on the fun!
And a big thank you to Shelly, for doing another year-end challenge and getting our New Year off to a great start!