Shelly Pagliani who blogs on Prairie Moon Quilts has been doing a studio organizing challenge for several years now (you can see it here) and someone recently posted on one of my quilt lists a link to an older post by her.
I'm the sort of person that works best if everything has a place and needs to be in it for me to find it. Yes, there's that much that I need it organized in order to be able to find what I want instead of buying more! However, for the past few years because of frequent moves the organization of my stuff has suffered. So the idea of an organizing challenge really touched a chord for me.
Sewing area and where my laptop is. Design wall is to the right of everything.
The plan for the rest of this year and next year my plan is to do what I've listed out below. It won't happen all at once, but my plan is to make a spreadsheet to "map" out what needs to be done so that I can keep making progress and not get too sidetracked.
In the Fabric Room -
++ Make spreadsheet so that things can be kept track of
Nov. 2018 - Done.
++ Number all the boxes and totes of fabric so that I can better keep track
of what I have and what needs to be gone through
++ Replace the xerox boxes as needed as I go through them
(bankers boxes or totes? yet to be decided)
++ Replace totes that are broken or damaged as needed
++ Sort the fabric stuck hither and yon in boxes, totes and everywhere
so that once again like colors/themes are together
++ Downsize the fabric that I have as I go through things.
++ Arrange the boxes and totes to where I can get to things as needed
++ Go through the contents of the drawers in the chest
In the Craft Room -
++ Rearrange the totes and other items on the shelving units for
easier accessibility to what I use most often -
Nov. 2018 - This has already been started........
++ Repeat above steps as appropriate for what is in the craft room
(rearranging, sorting, downsizing, etc.)
++ Sort through and downsize totes of gift items (3 huge totes of "gifts"
bought or made over the years)
Also included in this will be listing what I down size for sale, or otherwise disposing of it. The idea is to free up room and space. =)
Gratitudes:
1. A three day weekend thanks to a day of vacation on Friday
2. For a bed to sleep in, even when most nights that I wake up 2-3 times
Kudos to you for posting pictures of your studio space. I find that tackling the sorting, organizing and donating fabric and supplies the hardest part of getting myself going in the new year. I go in the room with great intentions, then get discouraged very quickly. Good luck in tackling this project!
ReplyDeletethat is one humongous challenge...i can see why you are setting aside a whole year...wow, i don't think i could sew with all those piles around me...so i am duly impressed at how much you do get done!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for showing me what my home would look like if I lived alone!!! In the past few years, I've imagined what my dad's house would look like if it was my home and I lived alone...yep, the longarm would be in the great room I would create with the kitchen and living area...or the master bedroom would be the longarm room! Amazing how what starts out as a hobby can turn into a decorating choice!!! Love it.
ReplyDeleteWell, maybe I need to adopt your plan. I only have a houseful of stuff with no place to put it. =) Beds are such wonderful things! Your Phoenix house was bigger, wasn't it? It didn't seem so crowded. Or did you acquire a lot more since then? LOL
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