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I believe you have the neatest sewing space on the planet. I'm not the tidiest person but my sewing room is always tidy, because I discovered that sewing in the tidy space is very relaxing (comparing with the mess that grew rapidly when I was sewing in the past).
Nice that you found what works well for you. I have a bunch of wooden cigar boxes that I keep various things in. Then I stack them on my tables. I have high powered string lights above my sewing table. Then I have a grow light from a lamp above my nearby desk. Very short winter days, the grow light helps with winter depression.
@@Julija_Gobere it keeps my houseplants from dying and allows me to start tomato seeds in the new year. The light spectrum gets my body to interpret the light as being in the sun. We have 5 hour days in the winter.
OMGOODNESS, THANK YOU for the grow light idea!! I just this afternoon replaced the desk lamp in my study because I was experiencing eye strain, and was wondering what sort of lamp would help directly with my sewing machine in the same room!! This past week I updated my grow lights in another room, and so have an older clip-on light with 3 gooseneck lamps on it (think “grow light as 3-legged octopus” 😂😂) I can repurpose to use on my sewing table!! It illuminates all the shadowy nooks & crannies… BRILLIANT!! Thanks again!🤗
Great tips, as always. I'll never put my ironing board next to me though... there's so much sitting going on when I sew that I welcome the nudge to get up and move 1.5 m to my board. I do wait till I have a number of seams waiting to be ironed, partly because it's wasteful to switch the iron on for one seam.. I've never followed directions in order mainly for this reason. Your space is ❤
I have very few tools and found I do better with minimal amounts of gear and tools. I also use a tiered box like yours and keep the most used tools for almost every project in a zippered canvas bag and carry it to my sewing table. I also use those plastic mint boxes for bent pins and used needles, and a small canvas bag for rotary cutter blades. We have a metal recycler where we live and I try to drop off all the metal every 4-6 months. I love how organized you are! Minimizing my tools saved my sanity! I no longer have a fabric stash, I buy for each project now. Happy sewing!❤
I’ve been using my ironing board in the perpendicular position to my vintage sewing table with the leaf open for years. It just makes sense. I use it as an extra table, a pin cushion (sometimes), and for its actual purpose, of course. I have a hanging fabric thing with pouches that I think was a mail sorter at one time, attached to the wall, and that’s where I keep scissors and rulers.
Ah, I think I forgot to include in video that I use ironing board as an extra table, too!😅 I like to use it for pining or baste stitching, so that the details can lay flat while I do that🤗
I, too, like to sort out the various sewing iems. I use transparent plastic drawers you can staple, each for one kind of supplies: ribbons, machine thread, embroidery thread, serger thread, with different heights to accomodate the thread spools. I keep zippers in round metal coffee boxes marked dark colours and light colours. Sewing bobbins are in kind of a tower towerFor buttons and the various sewing feet I have found stapable trays with lots of separators by "Really useful boxes". I have 2 tables with the sewing , serging and embroidery machines parallel to each other in the length wirh a rolling chair in between so that I can easily sew and serge without having to walk around. I prefer to draw and cut standing normally so my husband turned an old ironing board to a cutting table by fixing a large wooden plate on top. I too have a riding table for my iron. High cups or certain spices jars are good for scissors, pens , cutters. Most of the containers are repurposed cookie boxes or spices jars. I use two plastic baskets to keep them together. There is maybe too much of a colour because plastic and glass are transparent, but everything is sorted and easy to find at a glance.
Those are all great ideas. Thank you for sharing. I especially like your idea of the big boxes for storing fabric -- separating them by never before used fabric versus fabric that has been cut.
Thank you Julija, that’s a great video! I was particularly interested in the first tip that you mentioned; could you please make a video on your ironing system, now that you have upgraded to a professional iron? I find ironing boards especially tricky in a small space, as you often cannot use the space underneath for e.g. storage purposes. So having your experience about mixing professional performance with practicality would be great! Have a nice evening!
Love that ironing cart! Those lights are crucial too. I bought one of those lit-up magnifying glasses (basically a magnifier surrounded by a very small ring light) on a table-mounted swivel, to make hand sewing easier on my eyes -- and I find that I swivel it over to illuminate my sewing machine even more than I use it for hand sewing!
I have a medical sharps container left over from my dog who was diabetic, I now use it for all the damaged or dull machine needles and pins. I probably won’t get close to filling it in my lifetime but at least no one will accidentally step on them. Thank you for all your recommendations.
Hi Julija you have some great ideas that will help me. If you saw my sewing room you would fall over faint, I do it’s so messy. But your suggestions have given me direction. I now dispose of needles in empty machine needle boxes, I have many due to keeping them over the years 🙄thinking there would be some great purpose for them. I have boxes for different fabrics too eg vinyl; I have a Chinese cabinet full of fabric for my granddaughters ; and drawers of sizeable scraps. I don’t know if you have mentioned this but to pick up the tiny bits of lint on the ironing board, floor or on fabric I use one of those sticky rollers that have removable sticky paper layers. Hard to describe in few words. Anyway I’ll be aiming to organise my stuff as you have shown. Thank you so much 😊
When i saw your interfacings piled in a box it made me wonder if perhaps they could go in a labeled file folder to make each one easier to find. Then you would only take out the one that you are looking for. Karen Brown from Just Get It Done Quilts made a rolling ironing station from a metal cart that has storage racks underneath which would be really helpful for small sewing spaces. Thanks for your videos. 🇨🇦
Great video. I keep a small trash can to the right of where I sew for those pesky threads and too small fabrics to keep for anything else. I bunch it up and use it for a fire starter. Course I only use cotton in there. I have a second one for clips of interfacing and if a fabric isn't cotton. I have a friend that puts outside small fabric in the spring for when he birds are building nests. I love the tic tac trick for needles. Any suggestions for blade disks? I also love the bobbin holder. I have a small box presently and it isn't the greatest tool. First time here but I'll be checking in on you from now on
My ironing board was (and will be again) set up fairly close behind me so that I turned 180 degrees; this was because of the shape and layout of my workroom then, and my new workroom will also dictate this. No problem, I'm used to it, and my chair seat swivels. I found it more important to adjust the height of the ironing board so that I could pivot and iron without standing up. I have close to 10 bobbin boxes produced by Gutermann back in the 1980s: they fit the larger diametre bobbins for my Pfaff better than other bobbin boxes. I wish I could buy more of them. Gutermann also produced thread boxes that were compact but held a lot of spools. I can't find anything like their storage solutions now, which is too bad.
How do you store your different sewing machine needles I recently purchased a lilybeller 14pce clear plactic small storage box at £11.99 and it keeps all my needles separate but together in one box ,it's so much better thank the plastic box that they were loose in.
This is really unhelpful. I'm guessing this entire video is recorded in her second language. Would you be able to post your comment in Lithuanian without help from a translator? Be kinder.
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I believe you have the neatest sewing space on the planet. I'm not the tidiest person but my sewing room is always tidy, because I discovered that sewing in the tidy space is very relaxing (comparing with the mess that grew rapidly when I was sewing in the past).
I agree - sewing in tidy space is so relaxing!🤗
Nice that you found what works well for you. I have a bunch of wooden cigar boxes that I keep various things in. Then I stack them on my tables. I have high powered string lights above my sewing table. Then I have a grow light from a lamp above my nearby desk. Very short winter days, the grow light helps with winter depression.
I had to google grow lights and it seems like a very interesting solution!
@@Julija_Gobere it keeps my houseplants from dying and allows me to start tomato seeds in the new year. The light spectrum gets my body to interpret the light as being in the sun. We have 5 hour days in the winter.
OMGOODNESS, THANK YOU for the grow light idea!! I just this afternoon replaced the desk lamp in my study because I was experiencing eye strain, and was wondering what sort of lamp would help directly with my sewing machine in the same room!! This past week I updated my grow lights in another room, and so have an older clip-on light with 3 gooseneck lamps on it (think “grow light as 3-legged octopus” 😂😂) I can repurpose to use on my sewing table!! It illuminates all the shadowy nooks & crannies… BRILLIANT!! Thanks again!🤗
So glad I found this channel.
Her channel appeared in my feed one day because I subscribe to a few more sewing channels - occasionally the UA-cam algorithm gets things right. 😀
Great tips, as always. I'll never put my ironing board next to me though... there's so much sitting going on when I sew that I welcome the nudge to get up and move 1.5 m to my board. I do wait till I have a number of seams waiting to be ironed, partly because it's wasteful to switch the iron on for one seam.. I've never followed directions in order mainly for this reason.
Your space is ❤
I have very few tools and found I do better with minimal amounts of gear and tools. I also use a tiered box like yours and keep the most used tools for almost every project in a zippered canvas bag and carry it to my sewing table. I also use those plastic mint boxes for bent pins and used needles, and a small canvas bag for rotary cutter blades. We have a metal recycler where we live and I try to drop off all the metal every 4-6 months. I love how organized you are! Minimizing my tools saved my sanity! I no longer have a fabric stash, I buy for each project now. Happy sewing!❤
I bought a big light recently. I was shocked! So much I wasn’t seeing, absolutely recommend lighting.
I’ve been using my ironing board in the perpendicular position to my vintage sewing table with the leaf open for years. It just makes sense. I use it as an extra table, a pin cushion (sometimes), and for its actual purpose, of course. I have a hanging fabric thing with pouches that I think was a mail sorter at one time, attached to the wall, and that’s where I keep scissors and rulers.
Ah, I think I forgot to include in video that I use ironing board as an extra table, too!😅 I like to use it for pining or baste stitching, so that the details can lay flat while I do that🤗
I, too, like to sort out the various sewing iems. I use transparent plastic drawers you can staple, each for one kind of supplies: ribbons, machine thread, embroidery thread, serger thread, with different heights to accomodate the thread spools. I keep zippers in round metal coffee boxes marked dark colours and light colours. Sewing bobbins are in kind of a tower towerFor buttons and the various sewing feet I have found stapable trays with lots of separators by "Really useful boxes". I have 2 tables with the sewing , serging and embroidery machines parallel to each other in the length wirh a rolling chair in between so that I can easily sew and serge without having to walk around. I prefer to draw and cut standing normally so my husband turned an old ironing board to a cutting table by fixing a large wooden plate on top. I too have a riding table for my iron. High cups or certain spices jars are good for scissors, pens , cutters. Most of the containers are repurposed cookie boxes or spices jars. I use two plastic baskets to keep them together. There is maybe too much of a colour because plastic and glass are transparent, but everything is sorted and easy to find at a glance.
Those are all great ideas. Thank you for sharing. I especially like your idea of the big boxes for storing fabric -- separating them by never before used fabric versus fabric that has been cut.
Thank you Julija, that’s a great video! I was particularly interested in the first tip that you mentioned; could you please make a video on your ironing system, now that you have upgraded to a professional iron? I find ironing boards especially tricky in a small space, as you often cannot use the space underneath for e.g. storage purposes. So having your experience about mixing professional performance with practicality would be great! Have a nice evening!
Love that ironing cart! Those lights are crucial too. I bought one of those lit-up magnifying glasses (basically a magnifier surrounded by a very small ring light) on a table-mounted swivel, to make hand sewing easier on my eyes -- and I find that I swivel it over to illuminate my sewing machine even more than I use it for hand sewing!
Good morning from Greece
Recently I find you👏 I like your videos and I wish to have some lessons for pocket 🎄Have a nice day.
I have the same ironing cart setup. Sooooo convenient.
I rolled interfacing onto empty paper towel holders, unfortunately I did not label them….silly me. Thank you for your information.
We generate a lot of sharps at my house, so I use a disinfectant wipe canister for them.
🎉love your videos
I’m so happy to hear this!❤️
I have a medical sharps container left over from my dog who was diabetic, I now use it for all the damaged or dull machine needles and pins. I probably won’t get close to filling it in my lifetime but at least no one will accidentally step on them. Thank you for all your recommendations.
I had a large vintage jewelry box. Perfect storage for needles blades and feet. Fish tackle boxes are also good and similar to your tool box.
Hi Julija you have some great ideas that will help me. If you saw my sewing room you would fall over faint, I do it’s so messy. But your suggestions have given me direction. I now dispose of needles in empty machine needle boxes, I have many due to keeping them over the years 🙄thinking there would be some great purpose for them. I have boxes for different fabrics too eg vinyl; I have a Chinese cabinet full of fabric for my granddaughters ; and drawers of sizeable scraps. I don’t know if you have mentioned this but to pick up the tiny bits of lint on the ironing board, floor or on fabric I use one of those sticky rollers that have removable sticky paper layers. Hard to describe in few words. Anyway I’ll be aiming to organise my stuff as you have shown. Thank you so much 😊
Those sticky rollers are great! I always keep one close by🤗
It's called a lint roller.
When i saw your interfacings piled in a box it made me wonder if perhaps they could go in a labeled file folder to make each one easier to find. Then you would only take out the one that you are looking for.
Karen Brown from Just Get It Done Quilts made a rolling ironing station from a metal cart that has storage racks underneath which would be really helpful for small sewing spaces.
Thanks for your videos. 🇨🇦
I was also thinking about the folder! A few pieces of interfacing that I have are rather large, so I haven’t found a right folder solution for it🤔
Nice video. Love the tic tak box idea. It's amazeing you come to us all the way from Lithuania . I am in Florida USA 😊❤.
Hello from Davie, Florida, USA. I bought the same clear sewing tool box from Amazon, which is much better than my original Caboodle from the 1990s.
Thank you for the video - I always appreciate your tips and knowledge about sewing. You are much appreciated!
Thank you so much for these kind words❤️
Good tips! Thank you
Great video. I keep a small trash can to the right of where I sew for those pesky threads and too small fabrics to keep for anything else. I bunch it up and use it for a fire starter. Course I only use cotton in there. I have a second one for clips of interfacing and if a fabric isn't cotton. I have a friend that puts outside small fabric in the spring for when he birds are building nests. I love the tic tac trick for needles. Any suggestions for blade disks? I also love the bobbin holder. I have a small box presently and it isn't the greatest tool. First time here but I'll be checking in on you from now on
My ironing board was (and will be again) set up fairly close behind me so that I turned 180 degrees; this was because of the shape and layout of my workroom then, and my new workroom will also dictate this. No problem, I'm used to it, and my chair seat swivels. I found it more important to adjust the height of the ironing board so that I could pivot and iron without standing up.
I have close to 10 bobbin boxes produced by Gutermann back in the 1980s: they fit the larger diametre bobbins for my Pfaff better than other bobbin boxes. I wish I could buy more of them. Gutermann also produced thread boxes that were compact but held a lot of spools. I can't find anything like their storage solutions now, which is too bad.
I was looking for thread boxes a while back, but couldn’t find anything worth attention🤔 So I gave up on that and simply store my threads in a drawer🤗
Bernina uses the large bobbins and has cylindrical bobbin storage tubes.
How do you store threads, notions such as zippers, hem tape, buttons, etc?
How do you store your different sewing machine needles I recently purchased a lilybeller 14pce clear plactic small storage box at £11.99 and it keeps all my needles separate but together in one box ,it's so much better thank the plastic box that they were loose in.
How does yr iron stay plugged in while on your ikea movable shelf?
It's not I ron, it's Iron.
This is really unhelpful. I'm guessing this entire video is recorded in her second language. Would you be able to post your comment in Lithuanian without help from a translator? Be kinder.