If you sew or knit as a hobby, or if you are a professional artist, you’d know that while the sewing room is an organized space, the work is more productive. This makes it a joy to create!
As an artist, you are sure to have come across times wherein you would have believed that it would have been much better and easier if there was a way to organize the stuff right. So how does one go about it?
One of the best ways to go about it is to make sure work that each of the objects is individually stored properly.
As an example, one must store the quilting tools right, and also have the right way to store the magazines and books.
Let’s take a look at some tips that are sure to work very well in this regard.
1. Quilting tools should ideally be close to the work area, nicely sorted and arranged. Why not hang these by a bar, close to your cutting table. This enables you to reach out to them whenever required.
2. You could use something like a kitchen organizer to store pens, markers, and scissors. This lets you reach out to the same whenever required.
3. Patterns are yet another very important piece of accessory for a host of artists. At times, it may become difficult for an artist to go ahead with a sewing project if he is not able to locate a pattern.
So it becomes very important to store the patterns right. You could use something like a 3 ring binder to store your patterns right. This makes it easier for you to locate them as and when required. You could also use tabs to make sure that the patterns stay well organized.
4.. You may even use a mini binder for storing all your patterns which are on paper. The paper slides in easily into the binder sheets and stays safe with the little paper protectors towards the edges. This allows you to see both front and the back of a sheet. The paper binders are easy to find in all office supply stores.
5. Now you must also try and make sure that your quilting room is not overstocked with books and magazines. As a suggestion, you could limit your books to one shelf and magazines to one shelf.
So you could sort out your books and magazines every once in a while, maybe something like once in a year. If you feel that you are willing to do away with some of them, you may choose to give them away.
As an instance, there are some quilting guilds that would be willing to accept old books and magazines.
6. For an artist who creates fabric fine art, storing quilting fabric too could be difficult. How does one go about it?
You may choose to store the fabric by design. But a better option still is to store these by color, such that you could locate the fabric easily as and when required.
Storing fabric on wrought iron shelves is an alternative, but you may even choose to use a closet to store the fabric such that it stays nice and clean.
7. If you adore quilt art, there are likely to be some fabric scraps in the work area. When you need to store these scraps, sorting these by color is a fine way to go about it. You could then store these in transparent bins and keep these on shelves.
8. However one needs to take care that when one is working on a quilting project, one must store all the necessary ingredients at a single place such that these are easy to locate.
9. Artists sometimes tend to start up projects but tend to lose track of it over time.
The pieces are sometimes misplaced or hard to find, and one recalls at a later point of time that one had a project on one’s mind.
One of the ways to go about it is to not just keep all pieces involved with a project in the same place, but also maintain a tracking sheet that lets one keep a record of the projects.
One may even choose to maintain these paper records using a clipboard.
10. There is this tip that could work very well for storing a work in progress. You could store all pieces in a stainless steel basket, open from the top.
Now if the basket has side handles which flip in towards the inside, you could then store multiple baskets stacked on top of each other. The weight of the basket towards the top would rest upon basket below and the side handles, and not on the contents of the basket.
Did you find these tips helpful in managing your sewing room and sewing projects? Do let us know in the comments.
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