Showing posts with label Spring Cleaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Cleaning. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Sewing Thread Solution ~ Tuesday's Tip!



Spring has sprung with all it's new activities like raking!  Before I go too far down the rabbit hole of spring life I wanted to be sure to share with you a great thread organizing solution I devised this winter!  If you sew you know that thread organizing can be quite a challenge.  I use a lot of different colors with my puppet making.  I tried to keep things organized in these shallow drawers.  Hard as I tried, in the flurry of creating, they would turn into a jumble. Also, I often ended up purchasing duplicate colors because I couldn't find what I needed in the thread chaos!



I had been thinking about some shelving for my sewing room this winter when I came across this baker's rack on Amazon.  I "saw" a solution!  A bunch of wooden thread racks hanging from the back!  I found the thread racks at Joann's.com, on sale (they seem to be out of stock right now).  The bakers rack was easy peasy to put together.  I only needed a rubber mallet and my self...no enlisting DH for help!  The rack is nice and sturdy.  The shelves are adjustable.  Mine came with a bamboo wood butcher block that I like too.


Here is the fun time organizing my threads by color groups!

Super Tidy!


I lowered the utensil bar to hang the lower thread racks with the "S" hooks that came with the unit. I hung the top racks from the upper shelf using some 14 gauge wire.  I love this solution!



Also, purchase this shelf unit at Amazon for all my puppet felt.  My sewing room right now is a bit messier but, I am in a creating mode!  But, now I can spend less time and money finding the right thread color and the felt square that I need!  Do you have any great studio organizing solutions?  I would love to hear about them!


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Monday, April 1, 2013

Spring has Sprung!



What a nice weekend!  Started our Spring clean up chores.  
It was wonderful to be outside.  
Started with some brush burning....DH did a lot of land clearing this winter.

Day one of the Burn



Day 2 of the Burn


Time to Open up my Little Shed


Messy Time to Open up my Little Shed


Tidy


My home away from Home  


Opening the Duck Yard

Duckie Digs Done!



Back porch furnished and ready for a sit down....no time to sit yet!

Ending with a Poem...IT'S NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!!!!

"The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree--
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me."
-  Sara Teasdale, April