It’s no secret that I haven’t been able to get in the studio and do any sewing lately. But I did need to get in there and do a little tidying…

Believe it or not, it looks like this because I HAVEN’T been able to get in there and sew. But I have gone in to search for things, or toss in new purchases… and well – do that enough times and it just creates the havoc you see here.

The weekend before last, I took Sunday to do a good cleaning on the upper level of the house (our bedroom, my bathroom, my office.. and the studio). I got in there and put all that fabric away, and got it all nice and tidy for when I do actually have time to do some sewing (at least one day on vacation will be devoted to sewing SOMETHING!!!)

One thing that helped was a recent find at the ReStore.

They had eight of these stackable bins for a$1 a piece. I remember seeing bins like this when I was a kid in school – usually full of art supplies and such. As soon as I saw the, I knew they would be perfect for fabric. The bins on the right house “collections”. Mostly fat quarter bundles with some coordinating yardage. ON the left, I have some other collections (yard bundles, and a couple fat quarter bundles) and a bin that’s full of random rolled fat quarters that I’ve picked up at Walmart, Lens and the Dollar store. Because they are rolled, they don’t fit nicely on the CD rack, I repurposed as random fat quarter storage.

Of course, what I REALLY need to do is get in there and start using up some of this darn fabric!