$99.00$ to go, new machine

I have gotten very close to freeing my new machine from the hidden depths of layaway. I have been waiting to use it maybe on the LW dress I am working on. I hope to get some pictures of more in progress of where I am at with it all. I am sad about not being able to cartridge pleat as planned, had to quick guage. Grrr. Don'tike this getting old stuff.

Little Women and Surving Sewing of

Okay, so the Little Women Picnic will be very silly. I have started the costume out of a tiny spring green check. It is sickeningly sweet, and sometimes the checks just want to make me puke. But I do not make these things for myself, I make them for Sally to use in her many dangerous expositions and fashion shows.

So, I hope to have the skirt panels cut out and work on them this weekend, need to take some time to let the stress out.

It Seams a Mountain...Small Spaces Big Style

I have been recovering from selling at Costume Academy in Berkeley this past weekend and feel the need to be creative for me. How do I get this going?

Well, I have started spring cleaning early. After handling all my supplies this last week, I realised I had soooo much wasted space. I have room I have never had before to be creative, yet I find I work all over the place in that room. Sometimes it's a great creative feeling, but others I feel that I am blocked by not really having the flow through I would like to have. So this last trip, we got some things I hope to use for organizing and as they say on all the clean it up , neat nick cable shows, release myself from fabric prison!

I have to share with you some of my viewing pleasures in this area. I have watched some shows in the past, like Clean Sweep, and it is encouraging to see that there are other people more cluttered than I am get better with organizing. Of course, I don't have a behind the scenes crew to help...you know those minions of cleanliness. And the show Neat has inspired me a few times, but still seems unrealistic.

So the one show I found that has really got me to think creatively about organizing, is Small Spaces, Big Style. Seeing what people can do with a house that is half our size, or even a dorm room makes me think, I have so much more space than that, I have no excuses.

So my spring cleaning has begun, and rearranging my sewing and stock space is the priority this week. I have to have the space to create!

So, PHASE I
Create better storage for back stock of patterns
I have got another double filing cabinet and I will be setting the two up as a desk/shipping area.
Create better sewing area.

I have begun both of these and it is really a matter of getting some things better utilized. By swapping out the current space I use for shipping, a closet, I can store so many things in there and not have outside clutter. This frees up some movement room in the space.