The sewing room is still a mess. Don’t gasp when you see the picture but I’ve made enough progress to be able to get my cutting table set up and make a spot for a 301 cabinet. Tomorrow Vince will put a machine in the cabinet for me and I’ll be ready to start sewing!
I really think I’m going to turn the cutting table the other way once I get some of those yarn tubs out of there.
Have the cutting table set up means I will have a place to fold fabric, to organize yarn and do whatever else I need to do without having to bend over and do it on the floor.
I think there are less than a dozen boxes left in the sewing room . . but the bad news is that there are probably 50 – 70 tubs in there. Not all of the tubs have yarn but most of them do. I was trying to empty boxes so Vince could get rid of those while he’s here but those last ones just aren’t going to get emptied.
Chad will be home for a week at Christmas but has to go back to Detroit for a few weeks after Christmas. Once he’s back for good, I’ll get him to take the boxes to recycling in his pickup. It’s weird that last year Chad didn’t have to leave for his job once. This year, he was in Long Island, NY and on his way home from there, they were sent to Iowa, they left there, spent one night at home, left for Louisiana, came home for about three weeks and were sent to Detroit. I don’t think he’s been home but a total of about four weeks since the middle of July. In fact, most of the guys he works with went to Detroit the week after they got back from Louisiana but Chad stayed home for a few weeks before going.
Anyway . . getting rid of boxes are about the least of my problems!
I got some of the vacuum bags like Denise was using and I’m hoping that with using those, I’ll be able to put twice as much in each tub, or at least way more than I can get in there now. That will be a big project, putting all the yarn in the bags and documenting what’s where. I’ll probably do it mostly with the yarn that’s for specific projects and not the yarn I dig through often looking for a particular color in one skein.
I think I can put about 20 tubs under the longarm, probably 8 under the cutting table, 8 in the bottom of the closet in Addie’s room. I think can stack 4 tubs next to where my desktop will sit.
I’m still not sure where I’ll store all the rolls of quilt batting. Once I get the yarn under control, I’ll come up with something for the batting storage.
Nelle Coursey says
You have got this going and it is downhill from here. Just think what it was like when you first got there and think of all you have accomplished since then! AND you had Thanksgiving at your house!!
patti says
are the bags of a size that once they are squeezed down they will fit back into the tub? packing more into each tub will make for more efficient storing and can be stacked.
Judy Laquidara says
Yes, they are flexible enough that they will fit into the tubs.