Organizing wall-hangings and runners......

When I told you I was working on the closet in the sewing room (which is also where the grandkids sleep when they visit), I don't think I mentioned that I organized my wall-hangings and runners. For awhile now, I have clipped them on skirt/pants hangers and kept them in that closet. Often, though, I'd forget about one for a certain holiday and find it at a totally different time of the year and be disappointed that I'd not used it. SOOO...I decided to make some cute tags to hang on the hangers and grouped the pieces together according to holiday or season. For some holidays, I have more than one hanger. I also put them "in order" in the closet from left to right. As I put the Christmas ones back in the closet, I put them all the way to the right......and now the Valentine ones are next-in-line to be used. If I continue to do that, I can rotate them so the next holiday/season's pieces are right in front of me when I open the closet door!!! Here are a few of my hangers with the tags I made for them. I think it will be much easier now to get things out for each holiday/season, don't you?

Valentine's Day pieces....(one has a St. Patrick's design on the back so it's reversible in case you click on this to enlarge and wonder about that green that is peeking out!)Some Easter pieces are on this hanger.......And here are some patrioitic pieces.........It was fun to get this all organized so nicely!

What a MESS.....

How many of you print out patterns and good ideas you find online? I do that a LOT. The result was I had stacks of these pages piled all over and even a full drawer full of them in the sewing room. I decided they needed to be put into looseleaf binders and tamed somewhat. SO...I had DH put the drawer on the family room floor and I worked on that for a couple of hours. The dog came walking through and stopped in his tracks as if to say, "What the heck is going on here?" It was cute...as you can see in the photo. At least I now have all those papers in binders and the drawer is totally empty for me to fill with UFO's (in bags) or some other sewing "stuff". Yay!!! I love to reclaim some space that hadn't been used very efficiently.