This is what I've been working on for the last two days. No sewing involved, just sorting and sorting and tidying.
Because that mess is my studio. Caused by a combination of teaching workshops, filling wholesale orders, sending out etsy orders and buying new supplies.
I don't normally work in this kind of chaos, but it's suddenly all slipped out of control and yesterday morning (after teaching a hugely busy workshop at Cartwright Hall the day before) I walked in to this mess.
The problem is that my studio is 4 metres by 2.5 metres and has to house my entire business. Including finished stock, all materials, all books, all paperwork and all WIP's. And it's just no longer big enough, no matter how many times I rejig it.
Unfortunately working outside the home is simply not an option and within the home we just have no more space - no attic, no garden shed, no cellar space. Just my 4x2.5m space and not an inch more.
So what I've done is pack 4 bin bags full of fabrics that I don't use but don't want to get rid of, to put away in our roof eaves and I've sorted and refolded all my fabrics, felts, wools, linens and leather pieces so that they all take up the minimum amount of space. I've also been harsh with myself and put all the tea towels that I was saving to make into cushions etc, in the kitchen tea towel pile to use as, ummm...actual tea towels ( crazy). Same with the pillow cases, that are now destined to have my actual head resting on them!
But after 2 days I'm vaguely despairing of the fact that there still isn't enough space and of the fact that it's still not finished. That said, I am however determined to beat it in to submission.
Somehow.....
(help)
