Let me know below what area or room you are working on cleaning up! Also, if you enjoy vintage sewing patterns, check out this playlist for more: ruclips.net/p/PLaG2bBTXx7U74Wmx6LkyCC1NVgw6a1PqU
My whole house 😆 there's sewing stuff everywhere. 😆 and if procrastinating or debating where to put things counts as working on cleaning up then yeah I'm "cleaning up" every room. I swear I have absolutely no idea how those sewing needles landing in my utensil drawers. 😆
Lol it's funny last week my husband and I literally rearranged 3 bedrooms in our house last weekend. My kids are now sharing our old room as it's the largest room. It's ok cuz we just sleep in ours and are never in it otherwise so a small room isn't a big deal. Now all the toys are out of my living room!! And what makes it even better is that my husband and I get a craft room and office which opened up another third of the space in our living room. Our living room is positively cavernous without the toy piles, craft table, sewing table and half finished projects. It's amazing.
That is how my small living room look earlier this year when I bought all the stock of patterns from yardage town when they close their doors. Not once but twice.
I just reorganized and purged the craft supplies. I got rid of 3 trash bags full of stuff. I have 3 children and neighbor kids I do crafts with regularly from age 3 to 11 and then all my hobbies. it's all supposed to fit in a dresser and one shelf and it all technically did I just couldn't get anything I wanted without having to move other things which makes it irritating. Now we just have what we will use and enjoy. And made room for future projects my kids will want to do. It's cool because right now they r all into free form art where I come up with a art journal page idea or bring out a certain supply like stamps , stickers or paint (thier favorite all ) and they do what they want. They like projects and we do them occasionally but right now exploring with supplies is their favorite.
My tiny sewing room definitely needs cleaned out and reorganized. Even though most of my sewing is done on the dining room table my coverlock and serger, most of the fabric, and most of the patterns are in that room. But to be honest there is sewing related items in almost every room of my house, except the basement.
I wish I was that lucky but I'm lucky if I can find 1 pattern let alone a handful in my area... 80lbs or 3 massive bags full is a pipe dream I can only drool about.
@@StephanieCanada unfortunately I'm in the middle of nowhere so if I want to find anything I have to drive at least an hour to the closest city to go hunting for stuff. My local antique shop has none, my thrift store occasionally has some. But yeah I can get lucky (last mini haul I got some 1970's and two1950's maybe 1940's patterns which 3-4 were cut/used and the rest were FF) such a rare find in my area.
I have a week off of work thanks to Star Wars Celebration being canceled so the current plan is to organize all of my clothing, sewing supplies, and patterns. I have... a lot. Not nearly as many as you but I've been stocking the joann pattern sales for years and it shows
That's so beautiful! How long did it take ya? LOVE! Good job! I have to do this soon with fabric. Cause I've been slowly buying things and stacking them. (and the garage … oh dang the garage needs cleaning out again) I'm so great at getting new things and not great at organizing them. You know people who love to clean and organize? I wish I had that trait! Or could fake it.
It basically took all day jamming to show tunes to get it done. I do enjoy cleaning and organizing (stage manager) but I also don’t always do my own space because I know where all the stuff is in all the piles.
I recently moved my craft room to my kids’ old room. On took over the old craft room and the other took over my husband’s office. He now works in a corner of the new craft room. I show the new room in my newest video on my channel.
Some people like to turn their kids rooms into fabric and pattern sewing when they move out. I’m no procrastinator so I’m just going to slowly replace their lego boxes with pattern cabinets and I bet they never even notice.
Amazing!! My kid thankfully knows better than to touch the patterns but I don’t know if I would be so bold as to put them in her room. You are stronger than I!!
Bwahahaha! You think that's bad?! No, seriously. Congratulations on the early intervention, and getting it under control and protecting your merchandise. I worked for a small business which sold collectible paper goods online - doing shipping and some photography/scanning. Obviously this was during my broke years, and for someone I knew, with a highly flexible work schedule. Because otherwise, I would have run, far far away. The merchandise, and related reference material had LITERALLY taken over the two bedroom apartment. Blocked doorways. An entirely inaccessible room - even if you could have gotten through the doorway, there shelving around the perimeter of the room was stuffed full, and then made inaccessible with stacks of overflowing boxes of paper goods. The shelves were piled to the ceiling, the piles would have been, but around chest or waist height there would usually be an avalanche. Sometimes avalanches had happened a few rows of boxes back, so you could kind of chuck a box of "new" merchandise over the chest high pile blocking your way, onto a shorter inaccessible pile. This was a business of bulk lots, where 95% of the box is somewhere between not particularly valuable, and utter junk. But, we must NEVER get rid of anything. It might become valuable some day. Even random box board had to be saved, as it was free shipping material. Boxes or bins, almost nothing had a lid. It was "more convenient" to flip through if the items were standing up, which meant there were stacks of lids randomly piled around too. Entire stacks of boxes might fall over if you walked past. The washroom door couldn't be closed for the piles - so I never worked for more than a couple hours at a time from "the office". That, and the dust inhalation. The kitchen became full of merchandise, and the back door became inaccessible. There was merchandise being stored on top of the stove when the counter tops filled up. The items which were currently listed for sale often got set... somewhere "safe" from being knocked over and stepped on. And it would be up to an hour long search to find the bin containing the current auction listings for shipping.
Your office looks like my lounge room. Last week I scanned in all my 70s patterns, sorted them into date order ready to go online, put them on the coffee table in piles where they all promptly fell over, off and generally disarranged themselves. Today I took possession of a dozen more from the 60s and 70s (including some uncut larger sizes - a 20 1/5!) and have just realised that I've put them all on top of the ones I sorted out last week. Help!
@@StephanieCanada On the plus side, of the 14 I got yesterday, only 3 had one or two pieces missing, 5 were from the 60s, 3 were factory folded, one had a piece still pinned to the waistband fabric, and 4 were 38" bust or bigger.
No culling (unless it was actual trash). No sewing patterns were harmed in the making of this video. I just organized them into boxes so I can deal with them one at a time instead of having them all in my space at once.
Let me know below what area or room you are working on cleaning up! Also, if you enjoy vintage sewing patterns, check out this playlist for more: ruclips.net/p/PLaG2bBTXx7U74Wmx6LkyCC1NVgw6a1PqU
My whole house 😆 there's sewing stuff everywhere. 😆 and if procrastinating or debating where to put things counts as working on cleaning up then yeah I'm "cleaning up" every room. I swear I have absolutely no idea how those sewing needles landing in my utensil drawers. 😆
@@alexar.h.5031 I totally understand! I found a few pins near my coffee maker the other day.
I decided to sell a few duplicate celluloid vanity items on ebay. Now the library looks like a UPS store emptied its guts all over. Save me!
Lol it's funny last week my husband and I literally rearranged 3 bedrooms in our house last weekend. My kids are now sharing our old room as it's the largest room. It's ok cuz we just sleep in ours and are never in it otherwise so a small room isn't a big deal. Now all the toys are out of my living room!! And what makes it even better is that my husband and I get a craft room and office which opened up another third of the space in our living room. Our living room is positively cavernous without the toy piles, craft table, sewing table and half finished projects. It's amazing.
That is amazing! What a great idea!
That is how my small living room look earlier this year when I bought all the stock of patterns from yardage town when they close their doors. Not once but twice.
Just love cleaning and organising videos. I‘m weird that way!
Huzzah! Sadly I can report that this video needs to happen again. Le sigh.
Lol, loved the random HGTV mag in the pile. You have A LOT of patterns 😆
Thanks so much!
This was very satisfying to watch.
Thank you so much! It feels so nice to be done.
I keep re-cluttering my sewing room. It’s just so easy to close the door and slowly walk away.
Yup that door is so handy!
I just reorganized and purged the craft supplies. I got rid of 3 trash bags full of stuff. I have 3 children and neighbor kids I do crafts with regularly from age 3 to 11 and then all my hobbies. it's all supposed to fit in a dresser and one shelf and it all technically did I just couldn't get anything I wanted without having to move other things which makes it irritating. Now we just have what we will use and enjoy. And made room for future projects my kids will want to do. It's cool because right now they r all into free form art where I come up with a art journal page idea or bring out a certain supply like stamps , stickers or paint (thier favorite all ) and they do what they want. They like projects and we do them occasionally but right now exploring with supplies is their favorite.
That is so awesome!
Ive been so flipping excited to watch this and with your recent videos I knew it was coming yay xx
Yeah! It was definitely time. I am still in a house of patterns but it isn’t AS bad.
Mine today was getting my bed cleared off so l could start sleeping back in my bedroom. It is also where l do all my sewing.
My tiny sewing room definitely needs cleaned out and reorganized. Even though most of my sewing is done on the dining room table my coverlock and serger, most of the fabric, and most of the patterns are in that room. But to be honest there is sewing related items in almost every room of my house, except the basement.
You can do it! My sewing room is high on my priority list (especially since that is my filming backdrop as well).
I wish I was that lucky but I'm lucky if I can find 1 pattern let alone a handful in my area... 80lbs or 3 massive bags full is a pipe dream I can only drool about.
You just have to keep looking! You will find them, I promise.
@@StephanieCanada unfortunately I'm in the middle of nowhere so if I want to find anything I have to drive at least an hour to the closest city to go hunting for stuff. My local antique shop has none, my thrift store occasionally has some. But yeah I can get lucky (last mini haul I got some 1970's and two1950's maybe 1940's patterns which 3-4 were cut/used and the rest were FF) such a rare find in my area.
I have a week off of work thanks to Star Wars Celebration being canceled so the current plan is to organize all of my clothing, sewing supplies, and patterns. I have... a lot. Not nearly as many as you but I've been stocking the joann pattern sales for years and it shows
Amazing! Small wins in this crazy time. You can get the job done! I believe in you!
Oh my gosh! 2000 vintage sewing patterns?!? Loved this video. Your recommended playlist is up next!
Thank you so much!
I subscribed because you are exactly my cup of coffee and I laughed so hard when you told me to subscribe hahahaha
Oh yeah! Thank you so much!!
That's so beautiful! How long did it take ya? LOVE! Good job! I have to do this soon with fabric. Cause I've been slowly buying things and stacking them. (and the garage … oh dang the garage needs cleaning out again) I'm so great at getting new things and not great at organizing them. You know people who love to clean and organize? I wish I had that trait! Or could fake it.
It basically took all day jamming to show tunes to get it done. I do enjoy cleaning and organizing (stage manager) but I also don’t always do my own space because I know where all the stuff is in all the piles.
I recently moved my craft room to my kids’ old room. On took over the old craft room and the other took over my husband’s office. He now works in a corner of the new craft room. I show the new room in my newest video on my channel.
Very nice!
Some people like to turn their kids rooms into fabric and pattern sewing when they move out. I’m no procrastinator so I’m just going to slowly replace their lego boxes with pattern cabinets and I bet they never even notice.
Amazing!! My kid thankfully knows better than to touch the patterns but I don’t know if I would be so bold as to put them in her room. You are stronger than I!!
Stephanie Canada Lol! Maybe if I get enough in there it will encourage the 16 year old to find a trade and move out! ;)
Bwahahaha! You think that's bad?!
No, seriously. Congratulations on the early intervention, and getting it under control and protecting your merchandise.
I worked for a small business which sold collectible paper goods online - doing shipping and some photography/scanning. Obviously this was during my broke years, and for someone I knew, with a highly flexible work schedule. Because otherwise, I would have run, far far away.
The merchandise, and related reference material had LITERALLY taken over the two bedroom apartment. Blocked doorways. An entirely inaccessible room - even if you could have gotten through the doorway, there shelving around the perimeter of the room was stuffed full, and then made inaccessible with stacks of overflowing boxes of paper goods. The shelves were piled to the ceiling, the piles would have been, but around chest or waist height there would usually be an avalanche. Sometimes avalanches had happened a few rows of boxes back, so you could kind of chuck a box of "new" merchandise over the chest high pile blocking your way, onto a shorter inaccessible pile. This was a business of bulk lots, where 95% of the box is somewhere between not particularly valuable, and utter junk. But, we must NEVER get rid of anything. It might become valuable some day. Even random box board had to be saved, as it was free shipping material.
Boxes or bins, almost nothing had a lid. It was "more convenient" to flip through if the items were standing up, which meant there were stacks of lids randomly piled around too. Entire stacks of boxes might fall over if you walked past. The washroom door couldn't be closed for the piles - so I never worked for more than a couple hours at a time from "the office". That, and the dust inhalation. The kitchen became full of merchandise, and the back door became inaccessible. There was merchandise being stored on top of the stove when the counter tops filled up. The items which were currently listed for sale often got set... somewhere "safe" from being knocked over and stepped on. And it would be up to an hour long search to find the bin containing the current auction listings for shipping.
Oh man, this is everything I am trying to AVOID! I actually just got another vintage pattern cabinet to help with the "overflow".
Your office looks like my lounge room. Last week I scanned in all my 70s patterns, sorted them into date order ready to go online, put them on the coffee table in piles where they all promptly fell over, off and generally disarranged themselves. Today I took possession of a dozen more from the 60s and 70s (including some uncut larger sizes - a 20 1/5!) and have just realised that I've put them all on top of the ones I sorted out last week. Help!
OH NO!! I am so sorry, that is the worst.
@@StephanieCanada On the plus side, of the 14 I got yesterday, only 3 had one or two pieces missing, 5 were from the 60s, 3 were factory folded, one had a piece still pinned to the waistband fabric, and 4 were 38" bust or bigger.
Floor?? What is this "floor" thing you speak of? I don't think my sewing room has one of those 😆
I don’t think my sewing room has one. But my office probably should. Hehe...
So how much stuff did you throw out (other then the 7 month old leftovers)? Was there any culling during your cleaning spree?
No culling (unless it was actual trash). No sewing patterns were harmed in the making of this video. I just organized them into boxes so I can deal with them one at a time instead of having them all in my space at once.
Your pattern collection looks scary 🤯
So basically.. if anyone is looking for a specific pattern, you'll probably have it.. 😂
It is highly likely!