For some people their trees are up and the holiday baking is well under way. Not at my house. Instead, the stuff in my office has migrated across the hall to the Living Room. My son and I are doing a major reorganization of my office.
The motivation for him is helping me keep things clean and organized. The motivation for me is that I’ve gotten rid of enough stash at this point that I can move stuff into better places.
We’re going to consolidate stuff, move the bins of thread off my desk and into other containers. Surfaces will be mostly clear because I’ll have two new bookshelves for storage.
I’ve already mostly done clean-up, so the keep, toss, recycle is done. What’s remaining is a small portion of what was there. So we’re well through the first stage.
How are we managing this?
We are freeing up space by moving the daybed out of the office and exchanging it with the daybed in my daughter’s room. That will give us a nice chunk of space. In it will go:
- a new comfy chair for stitching
- a floor light by it and my K’s metal stand next to it
- my bin of projects in progress
- two bookshelves in the corner with clip-on lights
- canvas storage between the bookshelves
The plan is to consolidate all my needlepoint projects into the corner by the chair. Then I can select a project each evening to do and move it into the Family Room.
I’m also hoping that by having a nice chair for stitching close by that I can take breaks there instead of by playing games on the computer.
The one thing that makes me sad is that we’ll have to move my needlepoint gallery wall and relocate those pictures along the other walls.
I’ll share pictures once I’m done.
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Janet Perry is the Internet's leading authority on needlepoint. She designs, teaches and writes, getting raves from her fans for her innovative techniques, extensive knowledge and generous teaching style. A leading writer of stitch guides, she blogs here and lives on an island in the northeast corner of the SF Bay with her family
Jill Hamacher says
I am very interested on how you store your threads from previous progects. My stash is getting pretty big and I’m needing a way to organize them.
Thanks!! I enjoy your posts immensely!
Patricia J Lowry says
Good for you! And, you must have a wonderful son!!
Janet M Perry says
Look for this as tomorrow’s post.
Keep stitching,
Janet
Mary Cline-Buso says
Go for it, Janet. I’ve just finished Phase 1 of my reorganization. All needlepoint related items now are in my “Studio” including my books, threads, canvases, tools, etc. After I got all the canvases in there and inventoried, I decided to choose which ones I might complete between Nov. 20, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017. I tore the room apart again, seleted the canvases (and any threads I already had for them), sorted them by portable, large, and extra large, and then set them aside while I refiled all of the other canvases away from the chosen projects, which were then put in the newly cleaned out highboy (soon to be replaced with a mid-century modern credenza to match the desk we found in an antiques store). All of my threads are sorted by type (silk, rayon, wool, etc.) then by manufacturer and number in container store lucite boxes, with big labels on the outside to help me find what I need. Tools are in a set of drawers that I purchased at Michaels years ago. Blank canvases and large stretcher and roll bars are stored in tall wire mesh baskets, and smaller decorative boxes hold completed canvases waiting to go to the finisher, balls on DMC thread, beads etc. Yet to come: the paint job, display shelves, comfy chairs, and a small armoir to hold projects I want to hang up not leave laying in drawers in the credenza. All should be done by mid-April if I am lucky. Meanwhile I finished the first of the 30 pieces I said I was going to do by the end of next year. You inspired me with your “to do” list of this year. Right now, having my threads organized is the best thing I’ve ever done. When I pick a new project without threads, I go in there, pull a drawer with a silk or whatever I like, pick the colors I like, go sit down and start to stitch. No LNS needed unless I don’t have a color or thread that works in a particular area.
Janet M Perry says
Bravo on both the reorganization & the finish.
We went to IKEA today & came home with a new chair with the cover I wanted (in the AS IS bins), two bookshelves, a floor lamp, a big basket for projects and two rectangular trash cans for stretcher bars.
We’ll have some help Saturday for moving.
Now does anyone know how to disassemble an IKEA Hemnes daybed that’s 6 or so years old?
Keep stitching,
Janet
Cindy Wilson says
I am so envious of those who have a stitching room. I have baskets full of projects in 2 different rooms. Threads are stored in sorted by colors then put in small plastic bags. I have organized enough of my stash to be stored in a shoebox size plastic container. So much more sorting needs to be done but stitching seems to get priority! LOVE your blog please keep them coming!