I discovered Cheryl Sleboda (aka Muppin) on Instagram earlier this year. It was her sewing skull that caught my attention. (I have a thing for cool looking skulls.) When I saw that she was looking for some folks to join her in blog hop, I jumped at the chance. Little did I realize at the time that this blog hop meant that I would actually need to clean you studio.
For those of you who don't know, my little studio is nestled inside the guest bedroom. In a perfect world, I do all my sewing in there and I always remember to put everything away at the end of the day. This way, when guest arrive, it still looks clean, neat and ready for company.
The reality is that the room becomes a catch-all for everything. Over the last few months, stuff has gotten dumped into the room on a regular bases. When guest do come over, all the crap gets stuffed into boxes and hid in the garage. When guest leave it all comes back into the room.
I've gotten pretty tired of this back and fourth dumping and decided it was high time I actually clean my work space.
Thank you Cheryl for giving me a good excuse to clean up my studio!
Please check out the other cool cats on the list and see how they cleaned up their studios too.
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| Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop |
For those of you who don't know, my little studio is nestled inside the guest bedroom. In a perfect world, I do all my sewing in there and I always remember to put everything away at the end of the day. This way, when guest arrive, it still looks clean, neat and ready for company.
The reality is that the room becomes a catch-all for everything. Over the last few months, stuff has gotten dumped into the room on a regular bases. When guest do come over, all the crap gets stuffed into boxes and hid in the garage. When guest leave it all comes back into the room.
I've gotten pretty tired of this back and fourth dumping and decided it was high time I actually clean my work space.
Here is what should be a well organized work table. Believe it or not, there is actually a cutting mat and two rotary cutters under all this mess.
When not in use, the guest bed acts as my design board. Right now in this picture its hard to even tell their's a bed there. I don't even know where half of this stuff came from. I swear stuff multiplies when I'm asleep.
It took a couple of days of locking myself in the room and only coming out for bathroom breaks and to refill my green tea in order to get the place looking decent.
Now this is what a proper work desk should look like. See, I told you there was a mat and rotary cutters under all that junk. Look, there were even some rulers under there too! The little bird in the corner is my sewing needle holder. I seriously thought I had lost him. But nope, he was just buried alive.
And here is the guest bed / design board. All decorated with a quilt I'm currently working on, with fabric for another quilt waiting in the corner.
It was a cleaning that was well overdue. Next on my list to tackle are all my little scrap pieces. I need to find a good way to organize them for quick find and use. Anyone out there got any good suggestions?
With all that cleaning, I actually found space in the room to lay down my new little rug I purchased recently. I think every sewing/craft room should have a skull somewhere in it. Don't you?
Please check out the other cool cats on the list and see how they cleaned up their studios too.
May 7 Kathy Matthews http://www.chicagonow.com/
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