A little bit of reorganisation in my sewing room

 My problem is I have a lot of crafting stuff.  This is because I have a lot of hobbies.  Hand knitting, machine knitting, sewing, card making, felt and fabric Christmas tree ornaments making, loom weaving and loom knitting. I also fancy doing some cross stitch one day so I have stuff ready for when that day comes too. These are my indoor hobbies, I also have leatherwork but that is done in the workshop so all the tools are out there.  We do bring the leather into the house during the winter but thankfully it doesn't make it's way to my sewing room.

The point is with so many hobbies comes a lot of equipment and materials and keeping that all organised, accessible and tidy is a challenge.

Plus, my husband invades my space!!! I have a table set up to craft on but right now he has some of his manuscripts laid out on it so that means I can't work on it.  But that is OK, I don't craft all the time and right now I have hand knitting on the go which I do downstairs when watching TV so I don't need the space.  But I have an inkling to get my die cutting machine and dies out to cut out some Christmas tree ornaments in felt to make.  I will send them with the hoodie sweater for my great grandson in England.  The sweater is almost done, working on the last sleeve now but it was supposed to be for a two year old but it looks like it will fit him when he is five!  So no rush on getting the Christmas tree ornaments done. 😄

Aside from the fact my table is out of commission right now, my equipment for that was in a closet with a long large heavy tote full of knitting machine accessories sitting on top of it so if I needed to get it out I had to take out said heavy tote which is difficult to do, take out my equipment to use which meant the big heavy tote was sitting on top of my treadle machine waiting to be put back on top of the equipment when I had finished using it. Too much effort and disruption!  But problem solved today, I took it out and found a space for it under the desk on the floor which has a knitting machine set up on.  So, it is accessible quite easily and my other equipment is also easy to get to now.

This is the long tote full of heavy accessories for the knitting machines

And this is what it was sitting on top of

Now I can easily get to my Sizzix machine, my felt and ribbons and the Sizzix dies!  

I also moved some stuff off the top of one of my plastic drawer set which holds hand knitting yarn.  The basket of knitting machine books was too heavy and stopped the top drawer closing properly.  It is now in a place which is better supported. The plastic drawers are not the strongest things in the world but they are so handy and easy for me to move around and as long as they are not loaded with too heavy things they work perfectly for me. 

It doesn't take much to make me happy.