I'm doing something very brave. I'm posting before pictures on the internet without any after pictures to immediately counterbalance their horribleness. I'm doing this for the accountability, people. So here it is: the modern world's messiest sewing room.
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| Please, stick with me! Don't click away in disgust and horror! |
You know when you're on vacation and you see a gorgeous vista and you try to take a picture to capture it all and the grandeur is reduced to something sort of uninspiring? The same thing is happening in these pictures. Trust me, in person, it feels like this room is going to eat you before you'll ever be able to fight your way out.
I blame 75% of this mess on Christmas. In addition to extra-intense sewing and crafting, we used the sewing room as a catch all for random stuff as we were cleaning the rest of the house. This is not my normal, acceptable level of slightly creative clutter. This is code red craziness.
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| This is clearly fabric abuse. |
I had a thought that I should take pictures before cleaning this up, so I could do a before and after post. But I've done that before, and you know what happens? Things get better, but I never really get to a beautiful "after" point. At best, I get to the "in progress" stage. So I had a brainflash. I should post the before pictures to motivate me into actually getting to the after pictures.
My game plan is to make the timer on my phone my new best friend. Since this is all so overwhelming, I'm breaking it down into 25 minute cleaning sessions. Twenty-five minutes isn't even half an hour! Less than half an hour is totally doable. (See the mind games at work?)
I've already started by going through all my fabric, refolding it, and stashing it into three bins: big cuts, small cuts/garment left-overs, and quilting/crafting fabric. I also have a bag of muslin fabric. So I'm headed toward that after picture! Watch this space.
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