😱 ORGANIZE YOUR SEWING SPACE - PART 2 DECLUTTER YOUR SPACE

Is stepping into your sewing room like walking through a minefield? Are your drawers too full to put anything away. Or are you avoiding your sewing room entirely. Then chances are you need to declutter...But where do you start? Here are my 7 top tips for decluttering your sewing room. And stay till the end for details on my declutter challenge.

🙌🙌Sign up for my Newsletter!
(Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the sign up form)

Alarm Timer Cube

Referenced Videos:
🧵⏳ORGANIZE YOUR SEWING SPACE - PART 1

😱🤪Help? Where's My SewJo...6 Strategies to Overcoming Sewing Burnout

👽✌️HOW MANY UFO'S DO YOU HAVE? ARE UNFINISHED PROJECTS TAKING UP SPACE? HERE'S A PLAN TO GET THEM DONE

👀Didn’t see the last video? Check Out :

🤓 LOOKING BACK AT 2020 - My 100th video

Have you checked out Karen’s Quilt Circle? Watch the latest episode here:
🧵🌸LET'S TALK ABOUT DESTASHING - Karen's Quilts Circle with Kim Soper

🛑🛑Recommended Video Series You Should Check Out! 🛑🛑

TIPS & TRICKS FOR BETTER RESULTS

COLOUR YOUR QUILT - The Colour Theory Series

FREE FAST & EASY STASHBUSTER QUILTS

SCRAPBUSTER BLOCKS, QUILTS AND ORGANIZATION

Download my FREE Fast and Easy Stashbuster Patterns

💕My Most Watched Videos💕

BUDGET SEWING- TOOLS & HACKS FROM THE DOLLAR STORE

QUILTING - 5 SEWING HACKS WITH MASKING TAPE

🛠Previously Recommended Tools🛠
Where indicated, the link will direct you to Amazon where I will receive a small commission on your purchase. There is no obligation to purchase from these links. These items may be available locally or you can use or modify something that you already own.

Panasonic NI-WL 600 cordless iron

M-Aimee Wool Pressing Mat

Tractor Seat Adjustable Chair

Laser Square

Ultimate 3-In-1 Color Tool

Alarm Timer Cube

LED Lighting Strip

🧵My Favourite Quilt Tools🧵

📱💻You can find me hanging out most days on📱💻
Instagram: JustGetItDoneQuilts
Facebook: JustGetItDoneQuilts

📬Or by snail-mail
Just Get It Done Quilts
3911 Chesswood Dr
North York, ON M3J 2R8

🎥Video Equipment I use🎥
Editing software - Premiere Pro

SKILLSHARE NOTE: Discount code works on monthly memberships, not yearly. Code is only applicable for a two month period. I do not have a class on Skillshare, but I love their classes and use my subscription regularly.

[welshwitch]

I have enough stuff to last 4 lifetimes. I just kept buying, but I was working full time, weddings and grandbabies started coming, and I didn’t have the time or energy to sew. Then 2020 happened and I got furloughed. My entire house was a complete disaster. Enter my daughter, who is a stay at home mom, and has the guts to say “DOES THIS BRING YOU JOY??” She’s brutal when it comes to clutter and I need that badly. She helped me reclaim most of the downstairs, although my husband’s garage workbench is taking over the desk in the kitchen again😡. She’s been helping me with my sewing spaces. I have two rooms upstairs (her old room and her brother’s old room). There’s still a long way to go, but at least I can move around in my main sewing room and actually sew! I need to purge quilt kits that I know I’ll never get to, but I need to get her back over to help me do it. She pushes me to make the hard decisions. I have such a hard time letting go😫😫. I’m so lucky to have her❤️

[oriehopp]

You inspired me ! I just de cluttered my design board. It had turned into a bulletin board. Thanks for inspiration.

[katilimade]

I've never felt so seen and understood by a video about organizing! Thank you for your encouragement and relatable advice.

[jenhaynes]

I've had some of my stash so long, it's vintage now...

[Patricia.diy.quilts]

Hello, I try for the first time your challenge. I’m French and I don’t speak and understand very well American language but I try this challenge because I think I need it.
Thanks you 👍👍

[Pippi-Longstocking]

She resonated with me when she mentioned dumping stuff in your sewing room. I thought I was the only one. I’m listening to the whole series before getting started

[mssixty]

😄 The third option - ". . . or are you just avoiding your sewing room . . ." showing a picture of a closed door - cracks me up! That's me right there in my hallway 🤣, hence, one of my reasons for watching this video. I just enjoy watching your videos, regardless of the subject!

[emmac]

This is like an ADHD crafters therapy class, thank you 😊 🙏

[DH-qzso]

Oh my goodness...those darn squirrels! I know exactly what you are talking about...I have a few of them, right now, ....keeping busy and looking ever so cute up in my quilting room... just the other day I thought, Hey! wouldn't it be fun to to a children's I Spy quilt...with using all 2.5 inch squares of different things (ladybug, other insects, small nursery print animals)...so I went out, and bought some fabric...and it is now on a shelf up there...rather than just writing down in a journal for a FUTURE project....after all my other ufo's are done! lol!

[melissabeasley]

Tip 5 speaks to me. I use the squirrels as motivation to finish what I’m working on so I can then give the cute little squirrel my full attention.

[CatherineDoucette]

The guilt is a huge thing. Thanks for bringing it up. I have been watching your declutterring videos over and over as I have a large studio space but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t overbought. lol can’t wait for the 2024 challenge.

[Beth_Faber]

This video is going to save me hundreds of dollars! I have now determined to reorganize my space without buying any new furniture or containers!

[SabineMac]

I've used Body Doubling for years. I've asked friends to drop by with their book/knitting/wine and I sew/declutter/clean.

[deborahhunt]

I have gotten good at purging things I don’t like or use to make more room for fabric. My weakness, that I cannot seem to harness, is collecting quilting books. Maybe an episode about organizing books and patterns could be a future topic?

[oliviapeaches]

With some of my fabrics, I gave some away to some friends who I know that sew alot because it was just sitting in my plastic tote box taking up space. With my scraps I cut them into different size squares and put them in a plastic shoe box to sew later. 1 time a friend came over to visit and I gave her all of my cut up squares and other fabrics because the ladies in her church were planning on sewing quilts to give away for Christmas so I gave her what I had to give them a head start.

[almadeliamorris]

Wow. Loved the video. I live in a fifth wheel. No room for a sewing room. But that's my dream. Maybe 1 day I will have one. I too still make masks, American doll clothes, design flour sack dish towels, and also make jewelry. I love doing all that, it's my relaxation time. I'm thinking about moving out my breakfast table for a nice sewing table. I would not miss my kitchen table.

[marlenesalamandyk]

Letting go is the hardest! I think I have every scrap of fabric from every item I have ever sewn. I'm relatively new to quilting; I used to be a garment sewer only (from children's clothes to wedding dresses and figure skating outfits for my 4 children). My thinking was that I could not throw out a piece larger than an inch because I might be able to use it someday. And I always had in mind that when my kids were grown I would make them a quilt with the leftover fabric from items I had made them as children- kind of a memory quilt. I had no idea that spandex is no an ideal quilting fabric 🤣. My thinking now is that I should find something useful to make out of my scraps so recently made a turban headband out of leftover fabric from 32 yrs ago! Rifling through bins of fabric scraps can be exhausting so I have started sorted them by fabric type. I plan to use your earlier videos to cut all the cotton type fabric (who can remember what the fabric content was from that long ago) into manageable pieces for blocks. And looks like some of it will be used for making doll clothes for my granddaughter. So many projects and ideas, so little time 😢. Thank you for the great strategies

[doubleletters]

I love that you call them Squirrels!! It’s so appropriate!! 😂😲 🐿👀🐿 👀 🐿 👀

[JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Happy Friday everyone. It's been a crazy week for Brandy and I as we get all out ducks in line for the Declutter Challenge. Those dregs of 2020 are everywhere and I want them gone LOL. So grab your coffee and enjoy.

[winnepeterson]

I understand the efficiency goal of keeping your work stations close to each other. However, because I need exercise, I have my three stations set up as far from each other as I can, thus requiring me to hustle from one end of the house to the other. I also like to put my machine on a counter so I can stand to sew. Working toward a goal of sitting no more than four hours each day.