Here we are at the final task already!

I hope you’ve been accomplishing a lot of good things in your Sewing spaces. Every little bit helps — trust me, even when it doesn’t seem like it, it WILL eventually add up. I look around at how far I think I still have to go, but can look back and remember when it was so much worse, and realize it just takes time. But time is not unlimited, for any of us, so I know I need to keep chipping away at it.

Our final task is to:

Organize one area of your sewing space

This could Simply mean cleaning up an area that needs a good cleaning, but it could also very well mean RE-organizing an area completely. If you have an area that is not quite set up the way you want it, take a good hard look at it, and decide what would make it work better for you.

Do you need to rearrange your room a bit?

Do you need to swap out or get rid of some furniture pieces?

Do you simply need to clean up the area around your sewing machine?

Clean off your cutting table?

Do you not like the way you have your notions stored?

Do you want to reorganize your fabric stash, sorted by a particular size or by color? Or in different containers?

How about your thread storage?

UFO storage?

What’s on your shelves?

What’s in the drawers/closets/storage areas? Is that working for you?

Several years ago, my ironing station looked like this:

Then I realized that I had a small chest of drawers my sister had given me that needed a place to live, and found that it would work to do this!

Now I have lots of enclosed storage beneath my ironing board, and it’s wonderful. Those drawers hold a lot of stuff!

Back in March, I cleaned out and reorganized the closet in my sewing room. Now all my large yardage pieces and backing fabric is in one location, stabilizers, pillow forms, and spare irons on the shelf above, and I have some organized project storage in here as well:

Also back in March (I must have been in a spring cleaning mood!), I decided to reorganize how I stored my pre-cut scraps. They were in tubs on a shelf in the end of my cutting table, but still kind of inconvenient to get to and use:

Now they’re in this rolling cart’s drawers, and so much easier to access, both to put in new cut pieces, and to use out of when making a scrap quilt! I love it.

And that’s just a few ideas . . . I’m sure you can come up with several others that might make your sewing space feel so much better. This could be a big project that may take a while, or it could be something quick and easy that makes an instant change for the better — it’s up to you!

For me, this time, I think I’m going to reorganize the bookcases on the ends of my cutting table. One of them is full of odds and ends and I need to rethink what I’m going to store there for convenience and ease of use. The other simply needs to be cleaned out and rid of dust bunnies (how do they get so bad so fast?). So my task isn’t super hard, but also won’t be super fast, either; but I know it will sure feel good to have it done!

I’m interested in hearing your plans and ideas for this one.

And that’s our last task for this year!

Don’t forget to leave your comments on the three posts to be eligible for the prizes. We have until the 7th to keep working on these. I’ll draw for the winners then.

I hope this has helped you make a good start to your new year, and that you had some fun while doing it! Thanks so much for playing along with me!