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Taxes and Sewing Machine Covers

The taxes are ready to give to the accountant. So that's done.

My sewing corner is lookin' goooood. The sewing machine and the serger each have their own pretty cover.


Sewing Machine Covers

My fabric is stowed prettily in rolls tied with muslin strips. And my patterns are organized and catalogued. I do not have a very large stash of either, and what I had was not all that disorganized, but it was getting there! Inspired by various Pattern Review message board threads and a desire to sew in an orderly environment I bought 3 bankers/file boxes and a roll of Sonoma pattern contact paper.

The covered boxes look very pretty. Since the boxes aren't see-through I used my handy-dandy label maker to mark the boxes. 2 of the boxes now hold my pattern collection. The 3rd box holds some tablecloths. I have more tablecloths than would fit in the 1 box, though, so I'm gonna buy another set of 3 boxes to cover and use them to hold the rest of the linens. I don't use tablecloths very often and they were sliding around my linen shelf wreaking havoc. The boxes will hold them nicely. I keep most of this stuff in the linen closet; some of the sewing stuff lives under my pressing table, hidden by a table skirt.

My fabric stash I was able to fit into 1 flip-top container. Another container holds extra stuff like batting, scraps and odds & ends.

I also covered my little tool chest of drawers where I keep my sewing/serger feet & tools.



I'm ready to sew!

God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
Cor 14:33

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