Sew Organized Day 6

January 16, 2012

Ok, so I totally blew last week.  Went and got myself sick–note to self—no more Mexican food.  It doesn't like me anymore.  Haven't felt that bad in a long time.  But it sure tasted good.  So we will continue to take a look at ideas for recycling and re-purposing.  Here are a few items I [...]

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Sew Organized 2012 Day 5

January 12, 2012

Today we get to one my most favorite organizing activity, all the little bits and pieces that come with sewing and crafting.  And it seems that every year there are more and more of those bits and pieces.  Here are just a few of these many items: bobbins thread needles paint buttons You have many [...]

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Sew Organized 2012 Day 4

January 11, 2012

The sewing area If my studio was a living being, the sewing area would be the heart.  Not much can get accomplished without my collection of sewing machines. There are many ways you can arrange your sewing area and a lot depends on what type of sewing you do.  I like to borrow a page [...]

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Sew Organized Day 3

January 10, 2012

Arranging Space I hope you had a restful evening and are ready to continue whipping your studio into shape.  If you need to, finish painting any furniture and fixture pieces from yesterday.  They can finish drying while you finish sorting through the keepers. Now you can move onto some more fun stuff, arranging your studio [...]

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Sew Organized Day 2

January 9, 2012

Hopefully you've finished your painting and purging.  If not, do finish that up before moving on to the next phase.  You don't want to get too many things going at once.  That is a sure fire way to get overwhelmed and give up. Painting Furniture If you are anything like a lot of us, most [...]

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Sew Organized 2012 Day 1

January 8, 2012

The start of Sew Organized 2012 is here.  But if you are like me, you won't get knee deep into this until tomorrow, Monday.  But before we jump in and start doing the fun stuff there are some tedious, not so fun work to do first. Painting If you plan to beautify you space with [...]

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Sew Organized 2012–Plan of Attack

January 7, 2012

Hopefully by now you've identified your biggest and worst hot spot in your studio.  But don't jump in just yet.  Jumping in without a plan of attack will probably make things worse.  Instead, think about this for a minute or two.  What do you want to accomplish on this organizing mission.  Improve the looks of [...]

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My Soldier Girl

January 6, 2012

I know this post has nothing to do with slipcovers, but I'm such a proud mama that I'm about to burst wide open.  Meet PFC Knowles!  Yeah, my baby girl is gonna be a solider.   This time Monday night she will be at Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC starting boot camp.  She's moving on out from [...]

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Sew Organized 2012–Pep Talk

January 5, 2012

Just thought I would pop in and give a little pep talk about Sew Organized 2012 so that come Sunday we can all hit the ground running.  Sometimes trying to organized your sewing space can be a little over whelming.  It seems that you take a 1 step forward and many, many steps backwards.  There [...]

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Sew Organized 2012

January 3, 2012

Now that Christmas is over, I've started thinking about my annual organizing ritual.  I love to clean out the cobwebs, eradicate the dust bunny colonies and give everything a fresh new look.  Must be some of those old military habits lingering around. After 5 years of heavy duty organizing, re-arranging, painting and such, I don't [...]

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