Tour: My Own Little Corner

I spent some time this weekend cleaning upstairs since our downstairs area is looking rather... helpless. In addition to going through my clothes and clearing out HALF(!) of the stuff in drawers, I fixed up my sewing room which was in a terrible state prior to this:

Well, before we moved into the house, it was called the sewing room. I suppose that it can't technically be called that anymore since Yura decided to claim half of the room for himself. One day, I will have a room to myself!

To clear stuff off the floors, I tried to put as much on shelves as I could. The bookcase prior to my cleaning was filled with random crap and trash. I reorganized my books into one column and shelved my sewing patterns (which were previously all shoved into a box) and my fabric. I still have a few more bolts to put up, but I rolled up all of the ones I've already washed and color-coded them underneath the patterns. The rest are still in a tote bag I keep by my desk.



Each fabric was folded twice and rolled onto two layers of comic book backing boards that I got on Amazon. I got 100 boards for 13USD! Not too bad! One board seems to be sturdy enough, but I used at least two so that I could have some of the board peeking out of each end. I looked at different options for storing fabric and while I find having them organized in file cabinets a better option due to fabric catching less dust, I am rather forgetful and whatever is out of sight, is out of mind. I suppose I don't mind having them sit out in the open. I think it looks nice!

With the limited space I have, I still hope to add a few more things to the room including a cutting table (I am currently cutting them on the floor, but at least with a cutting mat!). But for now, I am satisfied with its progress.

My current project!