So, what does this year bring?

I have been tiding my sewing space this last week also It's the antidote to Christmas chaos. I have to find a home for a couple of things and then I will be ready to make a mess again Hooray

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I'm glad someone else is in clean up mode. My posting about it worked too as I've now made major inroads into the chaos in the the sty.

For me, I have decided that I must rationalise my sewing machine collection and get rid of some of the machines. I can't use all of them so I must move them on to someone who will appreciate them or be able to use them for parts for someone else's much loved machines.

Once I get my sewing room tidy and clean, I will then think of what I'd like to achieve by way of sewing in 2015. I can't do thing till I can work in my room properly.

Maybe this is catching. Ha! Here in the Camper Resort I decided to put my New Home up for sale on the bulletin board a week or so ago. I have too many machines (4 counting the serger) for the space I have in my mobile home! Also, I have been going through stuff to try and tidy things up! Good luck to all of us in getting this done! Barbara in FL

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I am on the lookout for storage solutions. I don't care for the plastic carts and bins but not sure exactly what it is I want.

I also have a sewing room that looks like the room from Hell. My sweet DH bought me a full length mirror so that I don't have to stand on a step stool to see myself from th waist down. The best gift he gave me though was a gift card to my favorite local hardware store. I love hardware stores. This one carries a storage cube with multiple areas to store fabrics, notions, books and patterns. I'm not sure that what it's intended for but that's how I.m going to use it. I'm just waiting for the roads to clear a little more of the black ice patches and then I'll go get one and start organizing my sewing room and finding my machine again. I thought I had the worse looking room on the planet but I guess I'm not alone.

Is this available at Home Depot or Lowe's???????????? What area of the store is this if for sale in either????????

LOL. I think you have lots of company. My news is that I can now SEE most of my main sewing machine but I still can't see the full top of my sewing cabinet - yet.

I have got a gloriously polished, clean, accessible and really free running Treadle. My SO and I spent part of yesterday giving it a tune up. I said that it was running well but the SO, who has many old British sports cars and can't abide any form of rattle or clunk in them, wouldn't agree. He said the pitman arm was clunking and he went in search of the cause and ended up applying some grease to a point somewhere or other. I am stunned at the amazing improvement in the treadle action. I thought it was smooth before but this is like silk and so quiet.

Boy howdy, do I feel your pain! My "real" sewing room is in a constant state of chaos. It is also my laundry room, and I tend to stack garments-in-need-of-alteration and new stash on top of the machines until they begin to slip and slide, so I move the stacks to the cutting table, the ironing board, other surfaces, etc., etc., until finally I HAVE to clear things out so I can actually sew. Right now, I am trying to get a couple of pairs of nice RTW slacks hemmed so I can start on some new outfits for my trip to England in March. :-}

I am guessing you're not even close! :-}

Is this available at Home Depot or Lowe's???????????? What area of the store is this if for sale in either????????

Wal Mart has a laundry dept. with hangers, clothes baskets and other things including a 6 hole cube made out of pressed (?) wood. My sister lives in a retirement home and her daughter got her one to organize "things." I think I have also see something similar at Lowes and Home Depot. Barbara in FL

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My oldest DD bought a closet unit in Home Depot that has shelves,cubicles and hangar space, they also have things like this

Be sure to scroll down the entire page this is some of what Lowes has.

I'm sure I will also go to these two stores to look around as I go along. I want to start at my hardware store because it's a local owned store and they have good prices and I like to shop locaal when I can.

I've got a ClosetMaid system in my bedroom closet and in a walk-in closet. I had thought of the drawers they offer but they need to be attached to 24 inch on center studs in the walls. My studs are 16 inch on center so that 's not going to work unless I find another means to attach them.

Weird!!! I thought the standard was 16" on center. Who was your builder? ;-D

You might nail or screw furring strips horizontally on the wall where you want to attach them. That was the way we dealt with too-far-apart ceiling joists when we mounted out garage door opener.

I *think* the standard width of wall studs is now 24 inch on center. My house was built almost 90 years ago.

Not according to the google oracle:

I would re-check the specs on the storage unit.

:> I *think* the standard width of wall studs is now 24 inch on :> center. My house was built almost 90 years ago.

:Not according to the google oracle: :

:I would re-check the specs on the storage unit.

16" on center is certainly more common, but in new construction, 24" on center is becoming common. There are some obvious advantages (it's cheaper: less wood, and less labor) and some less obvious ones (you can put more insulation in the walls since there's less wood in the way, and there's less bridging of heat from the interior to exterior wall). It's particularly common in non-load bearing interior walls, where one of the advantages is that it makes plumbing and wiring easier (and, thus, cheaper) to install. There are disadvantages: it's easy to get out of square walls, it requires more care from the framing carpenters, and may also require thicker drywall and wall sheathing.

:-)) I thought there might be a few others here who knew what a mess a sewing room can become.

My "real" sewing room is in a constant

Good luck! I'm now into sorting through my sewing mags. what a distraction that is proving to be. If magazine publishers just wouldn't write things on the cover..... It'd be great to just be able to file them rather than thinking, "That sounds interesting" and great slabs of time later I've revisited lots of articles and added lots of new techniques or garments or wardrobe plans to my mental list. As if my mental list wasn't big enough already!!!!!