Declutter and Organize Your Sewing Space

If you love your creative work but you always seem to find a way to avoid it, put it off until later, do the least-important parts first instead of concentrating on the challenging parts, or generally not get things done all the way to completion, you’re procrastinating! In this episode we’ll look at some of the reasons we procrastinate, even when we have the best of intentions – and I’ll give you some suggestions about how you can beat procrastination and get your projects done!

Music credit:
“Cheery Monday”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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What do you do with all your materials and tools when you have more than one creative practice? For example, if you enjoy sewing and knitting and you also do some card-making, how do you prioritize your activities and where do you put all your materials and tools? Find out in this episode, where I show you how to decide how much time and space to give to each activity, find new storage areas around your home, and organize your tools and materials so they don’t encroach upon each other.

Music credit:
“Cheery Monday”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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In this episode I interview Melissa Averinos of melissaaverinos.com, an artist, sewist, and quilter who made a huge change in her creative workspace last year by decluttering many of her materials.

In this interview we talk about how she overcame her natural inclinations to keep things, asked herself many questions and approached decluttering from many different angles to encourage herself to let go of what she no longer needed, and created a clearer and more usable workspace as a result.

Music credit:
“Cheery Monday”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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If you love making clothes, home dec items, or quilts for yourself, you may find it difficult to declutter your me-made items, especially if they’re of sentimental value to you. But equally, if you’re a prolific sewist or quilter, your closet and home can fill up pretty fast, and you need to make room for [...]

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In this episode I interview Sarah Ashford of Sarah Ashford Studio, a modern quilter who creates quilt patterns for magazines and other publications, writes about quilts and quilting, works with British fabric companies to test out their fabrics, and hosts the #greatbritishquilter Instagram challenge. She also creates and sells project pouches on http://sarahashfordstudio.com that help [...]

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