Organizing Your Sewing Room

While you are shopping those wonderful post-holiday sales, look for items that will help you to organize your sewing stuff. Clear plastic boxes with lids come is a variety of sizes and stack neatly. The shoe box size is perfect to hold buttons, ribbons, lace and other small items. Label each box to make it even easier to find things, and to remind you not to mix buttons with bias tape.

Office supply stores sell a set of clear plastic drawers that hold sewing and embroidery supplies. The more drawers, the better. Boxes made to hold wrapping paper work well for storing stabilizers.

Sort through fabric scraps. Throw away anything you cannot envision ever using. The scraps you feel compelled to save can be sorted by fiber and color, so that cottons go together, synthetics go together. Place similar fibers and colors into plastic zipseal bags or plastic boxes. Fabrics that you intend to use for a specific project should be stored with the pattern, project instructions, notions or other supplies purchased just for that project. 

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from Mary Jane Allen of Perfect Little Stitches

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