Heres what my sewing area looks like when I clean it up, this pic was taken a couple months ago, but I clean it up and it looks like this. Except I got another serger to replace my other one, that I sold..thats now on the table too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/daisies4me/Jodis%20sewing%20room/mysewing011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/daisies4me/Jodis%20sewing%20room/mysewing010.jpg
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I make a couple things for the kids....and it looks like this afterward!! what a mess!!! I can't find anything...pattern pieces everywhere, scraps..and I dread sorting it all out and cleaning it up everytime

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/daisies4me/Jodis%20sewing%20room/fabric010.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/daisies4me/Jodis%20sewing%20room/fabric011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/daisies4me/Jodis%20sewing%20room/fabric012.jpg

that's not a big mess! You haven't seen a big mess until you've seen me in action. I ain't takin' no pictures though! :lol:

We have the same sewing machine!

Yup!!! I am a REALLY messy sewer! I get in a groove, and don't want to stop to clean it all up!

If I'm good, I'll keep the pattern envelope (or baggie if it's a tracing) right next to me so I can put the pieces back in ASAP. But I also have a box of patterns/pieces that everything tends to get thrown into if it doesn't get put away right away, and I sort through that 1x a month or so.

But yeah - I can totally relate!

OMG, I was TOTALLY going to post this same thing the other day! LOL I swear I can get my house totally clean, and then after completing something so simple as a skirt or whatever... my dining room looks like crap. Could be the fact that mommy puts on her blinders while the kids tear up the place, just so I can get a few moments of sewing in. But I also have all my sewing stuff all over the place. Fabric scraps and threads on the floor make it look even worse.

yep, that looks like my sewing room! Only I have stuff all over the floor too, and pattern pieces draped over everything :) I am the same way when I cook.

that's not a big mess! You haven't seen a big mess until you've seen me in action. I ain't takin' no pictures though! :lol:

We have the same sewing machine!

Oh cool, do you have the xtra feet that go w/ ur machine, I lost mine, that came w/ it, in our move last fall..now I'm looking for some of them to buy again..if u have xtra feet, did u buy them seperate..if so where? I could go back to Erica's where I bought my machine..but I was hoping to find some used..any suggestions? thanks

That loooks way neater than my sewing space :o I have a sewing cabinet in the corner of the dining room. We live in a smart apartment so I'm crammed in a corner. The dining table is right behind me. So my stuff is all over the sewing table, all over the floor, all over the dining table. Threads following me wherever I go.

here is what my room looked like before i cleaned it last month. it almost looks the same again.

looks about right to me :)

mine constantly looks like a fabric bomb exploded, but I do know where everything is....or which pile it is in/under, lol.

S~

Amanda, you are my kinda girl ;)

Your sewing mess looks familiar!!! I make a HUGE mess when sewing. Unfortunately, my sewing area is my dining room so it's open and visible to all and a real pain to get set up and put away (fabric is stored in crummy basement, notions in a cabinet in dining room, machines on floor within reach of curious toddler fingers.....aaarrrgggh!). I long for a sewing area of my own with my machines always ready for use and fabric & iron within easy reach.....sigh.....
-Jill

Looks way too familiar!! :) WHEW thought I was the only one :)

I had to show this thread to dh..we have had a running argument lately that it is VERY COMMON for sewing mamas to have that..uh..scene in their work area! He still doesn't believe me...just to pi** me off..


Murali

LOL Oh yeh I will definitely show DH this. :) He doesn't understand it either. He is a neat freak though so he has no clue!

yep, that looks like my sewing room! Only I have stuff all over the floor too, and pattern pieces draped over everything :) I am the same way when I cook. yep me too! I actually think that's why I don't sew as much as I'd like/could. It's sew messy in there I can't find anything and it's hard to clean up with the littlest one at my feet and I often don't even know where to begin and feel overwhelmed. Dh has cleaned up my sewing area twice this year so far and he always cleans up after I cook or I'd probably do that less too!

Mine's not quite as bad as Amanda's (but it has in the past, LOL). Currently it looks just like Jodi's pics :D

I am the same way when I cook.

me too! Which is why I dislike cooking so much, it isn't the actual cooking I despise, it is the cleaning up part.