Welcome to DAY 5 of our 12 Days of Christmas celebration!
For our 5th Day Of Christmas giveaway, we are doing a GIVEAWAY of one $100 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky winner. The gift card can be used towards any item available on the Amazon or Fabric.com websites. Woot, Woot!
Maybe you'll use your gift card to buy some things to get your sewing room organized! It is that time of year when cleaning things out and getting organized are top of mind. If you're interested in some ideas to get you going, be sure to check out Cinnamon's Sewing Room Tours and Organizing Videos! Your can see several of them on the SWC Youtube Channel and more in SWC+
Feeling Inspired? Check out the other organization videos too!
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We hope you enjoy our 12 Days Of Christmas Celebration. We are incredibly grateful for your ongoing support and wish you a happy holiday season, and a terrific new year!
Happy New Year!
Cinnamon & Pixie Faire Team
100 Comments
Diane Sugimoto
December 29, 2022
my biggest sewing organization challenge is keeping up with scraps of fabric
Bonnie
December 29, 2022
…keeping my fabric and thread organized so I know not to buy the same thing again!
Ruth
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is putting away all the bits and pieces after a project before I start the next one!!
Eileen
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is notions. I seem to put all over.
Mary
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is saving every single scrap just in case I need a 1 inch square of a certain fabric!
Elaine Roth
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is Keeping it organized, and sharing the same space to do different things.
Melody Link
December 29, 2022
My biggest organization challenge like everyone, is fabric and thread storage. I have the pegged wall racks – 4 of them – with all the thread on them. This is great for quick grabbing and seeing all your colors at once and I love that. But the spools fall off all the time and it is just not a sophisticated look in my otherwise nicely decorated space. I roll my fabric and it is on shelves sort of by color, but also in vintage and antique containers, vases and wire baskets about the room which is great for decorating purposes but makes a lot of places to LOOK when you need to find all the right fabrics to go together for a project.
jennifer
December 29, 2022
my biggest challenge is storaging fabrics how to do it and what to use.i always have a messing room when working on a project.
Kimberly Chidsey
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is putting things in places I can find them.
Heather
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is where to put all the things that I make!
Cindy
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organizational challenge is, like so many others, storing fabric. I just don’t have enough space to keep it where I can see it all so I can find that special piece I know I have when I need it!
Patricia Johnson
December 29, 2022
my biggest sewing chalenge is finding the sewing room again so i can sew in that room.. the room needs a big decluttering
Lucy A
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is having too much stuff, and not enough time
Joni Jones
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is too much fabric, and yet always wanting more fabric.
Georgia
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization problem is putting fabric (and everything else) back where they belong!
marykay hymes
December 29, 2022
Biggest challenge in organization? Finding the time to clean up the messes I leave behind after projects are finished. Right now my studio looks like a tornado hit it so I need to make the time to reorganize things and clean it up before the next “go round” of projects.
Gara
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization problem is keeping my counter free of accessories and clutter so that I have room to cut and lay out projects!
Sherri K
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is having enough room to store my supplies. I am always finding new ways to organize my sewing room and still keep it functional.
Sonja
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is storing fabric in a way that is organized (by season, color, theme) but still able to see it so I can get to it quickly..
Cheri
December 29, 2022
I agree with so many others….putting away newly bought fabric…having space to store it all!!!!
Susan Fritz
December 29, 2022
My biggest problem is space. My craft/music/office is tiny. I clear my craft table of computer stuff to sew on. the kitchen table to cut out patterns, and move stuff around so I can set up the ironing board. Most of my patterns and stuff are in tones stacked in the closet. I definitely need a ‘prep day’ before starting projects.
Marilu
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is getting all my fabric organized by type in a different bin each… not to say that my yarns and threads also have to be organized
Elizabeth
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is fabric storage.
Stella Brown Wear
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organizational problem is finding the fabrics I want to use on a project. I end up having to go through all of my fabric scraps before matching pieces together.
Nneka
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is keeping track of my fabric stash! I get a good deal on an amazing piece, then never use it because I can’t find it when its time to create! Womp, womp, womp!
Madeleine
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is not putting things away and having to take time to clear a work area.
Cathy
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is definitely fabric storage. I have a fairly small space so storing my fabrics so that I can see what I have or find what I need quickly is hard.
Susan Hope
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is creating a dedicated sewing space, I keep eeking out a corner within family space which ends up becoming over run with family stuff
Melissa
December 29, 2022
The biggest challenge for my sewing organization is not having the room to store my fabric.
S
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is having enough space to store all my fabric. I constantly am adding to my collection and can’t seem to let go of any of the fabric I already have.
Pamela
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is putting away the things from one project before starting a new project!
Megan
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is finding usable storage space to prevent clutter.
Joan Shapiro
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is a very large amt of fabric.
Barbara Lipovics
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is putting stuff away. It often happens I’m working on one project then getting orders for another. When getting back to the original project, pieces are misplaced and missing!
Lynn M
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organizational challenge is finding places to store fabric. Also putting things away—I tend to just pile things up until it’s a big mess!
Linda
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is deciding what project to do next.
Joyce
December 29, 2022
my biggest organizational challenge is storing scrap fabric
Diane
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is small pieces of fabric that can still be used to make something wonderful.
Ali L
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is brown recluse spiders – they love hiding in clutter
Gina B Reiley
December 29, 2022
The biggest challenge for my sewing organization is not having the room to properly store my fabric.
Beverly
December 29, 2022
Deciding how to sort and organize the various types of fabrics to make them easier to find in such a small area.
Liana
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is keeping things organized, and of course enough space is always an issue no matter how much I’ve spread out, lol.
Juliette
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is my growing fabric stash.
Doris
December 29, 2022
My two organizational challenges are fabric storage and pattern organization. I have both purchased and Pixie Faire patterns for 4 or 5 different doll sizes, as well as knitting patterns for all the doll sizes. I don’t always remember what I own, and then if I remember having a pattern, I spend lots of time trying to locate it.
Julie Agnor
December 29, 2022
My biggest organization struggle is how to keep my scrap fabric organized
Sue D
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is keeping up with fabric scraps.
Heidi Brown
December 29, 2022
My biggest problem Is finding a way to store items I have for upcycling.
Margaret Rea
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing challenge is finding a proper place for all my smalls. Buttons, scissors, etc
Jen L
December 29, 2022
Hubby’s WFH has stuck and my sewing area is sort of fractured. Where to have what?
Lynn F
December 29, 2022
Organizing patterns, pdf print outs, and computerized storage of purchased pattern downloads is one of my challenges. Oh, then there’s all the notions and zippers and quilters tape and coffee filters, thread, etc etc.
Pegg smith
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is wrangling all my marking pencils. Can’t seem to keep them in one place .
Christine
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organizational challenge is finding room for all my fabric, thread and other sewing items.
Laurie
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is the lack of space. No matter how hard I try to down size it is an issue. I use a room that is my craft, exercise (lol), and grandchildrens toy room.
CdnCrafter
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is finding the space to put everything.
Karen Carroll
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is organizing fabric and notions so that there is enough room left over for my incoming long arm quilting machine!
Gladys
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is keeping up with fabric.
Wanda
December 29, 2022
Keeping everything in a “safe spot” and then losing it
Denise A
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is storing my machines, fabrics and accessories in the dining room since we don’t have a guest room and the basement is unfinished.
Lauralyn
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational problem is the space or lack of space I have in my sewing area.
Margaret
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is storing fabric. Have tried many methods but none seems to work very well.
Debby B
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organizational challenge is sorting my reusable scraps for me and having a basket available for my sewing students to practice with which are unusable for me as a quilter.
Kat
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challange is finding room for all my fabrics. I need more shelves and storage tubs.
Donna Cole
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge making every thing look in order, not like a big mess..
Shirley Camidge
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization problem is organizing my scraps by color for later projects.
Kathy
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing room challenge is simply a small room. I have used every single foot of space and it works – - but small is small when you look at the big picture. I sew for dolls, and I quilt so I have to be organized and clean machines and spaces after each project. We downsized on purpose to enjoy our retirement, so I am loving this season of life and accepting the challenge of this “small” area to do big things!!
Anne Marie
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organizational problem is how to neatly organize my fabric so I know where everything is when I need it. Scraps are probably the biggest challenge – hate to waste fabric.
Linda Dean
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge when it comes too sewing is so much fabric and too little space
Christine R
December 29, 2022
Definitely how to organize my thread.
Ava S
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is keeping the little things organized. Ribbons, silk flowers, snaps, buttons, etc.
Mary
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is how to organize my fabrics
Mary Jo
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization is keeping any presser feet and cutting tools easily available to use. I have my stash organized by color groups. But those small items that I use often, just seem to be all over the place.
Meg
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is finding a way to organize that allows me to find things when I want to use them. I’d rather sew than spend my limited time searching for something.
Patricia
December 29, 2022
what to do with the fabric I bought on a whim, and later thought what did I buy that for?
Sewbig
December 29, 2022
My organization issue, though not necessarily the biggest, is organizing my patterns for quick retrieval of my printed patterns. Sometimes it feels like I waste more time looking for a pattern than if I had just reprinted a new set of pattern pieces. My “Big 4” patterns are all organized by number, so I can easily file these. However, there is no sorting scheme for my pdfs.
Annette
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is to make a choice of all the fantastic patterns that pixiefaire has to offer! 😻
Mary V
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is staying neat while working on a big project
mary
December 29, 2022
My biggest organization challenge is storing smallest pieces of fabrics and then finding the colors / textures of those small pieces quickly.
Ginger
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing challenge is getting everything put away where it belongs!
Pat
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is having fabric stored in several closets and trying to remember where everything is stored.
Anita Derringer
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is finding enough time to do all the sewing I want to do and keep all my projects in order!!!
Susan Bank
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization is deciding what to make next
Allison C
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is universally sized storage containers—as my stash of stuff grows, I can no longer find the same bins/totes/etc so things are not as tidy as I’d like.
Theresa
December 29, 2022
I love all the little clear containers that you have stored small items in. But I realized that I need a bigger room.
Janice
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is thread and bobbin storage.
Mary
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is fabric storage. I have large shelves that are just a bit too deep. I don’t like putting fabrics in front of each other.
Linda
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is knowing how much fabric there is on a given card. I wrap it on cardboard I purchase, but once it’s neatly wrapped, I can’t tell how much is there. I love how it all stands on the shelf so it is easy to see the various patterns, but will I have enough? Have to unwrap it and measure to find out.
Sandy Goodson
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is space. Too much stuff, not enough space.
Theresa
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is keeping all my fabric , especially the little scappy pieces for applique organized and available when I need them.
Debbie
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is fabric scraps. I like to keep scraps for doll clothes and appliqués or other small projects but they get to be a big mess quickly!
Helene
December 29, 2022
Keeping track of all my fabrics is a challenge. My sewing room is full. Another challenge is organizing the doll clothes by size, especially the sweaters between AG size, KnK and Gotz. The differences are not obvious to the eye.
Mary
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is storing fabrics in a way that makes sense..
Tabitha Olson
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing challenge is doing a good job with patchwork by hand. It never stays.
Cathy
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is keeping my fabric organized so I can find what I need easily.
Beatrice Martin
December 29, 2022
My biggest organizational challenge is keeping my fabrics organized
Patti M
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing room challenge is knowing how much fabric is on the cardboard “bolts” that they are so neatly stored. I have tried small pieces of paper pinned to the side ( the front is generator narrow and ugly), I have tried a mailing label folded in Half on a rubber band and also just a piece of painters tape, I don’t recommend this as the sticky sometimes doesn’t come off.
Dixie
December 29, 2022
My biggest organization challenge is ribbon. I don’t like them out in the open because they get dusty so struggle how to store them neatly.
Jeannie
December 29, 2022
My biggest sewing organization challenge is storing notions and thread in an efficient, readily available way.
Carol
December 29, 2022
My biggest storage challenge is finding clear containers for my fabric. I want clear storage containers so I can see what is in the container.
Joan
December 29, 2022
“My biggest sewing organization challenge is Out of site out of mine. When items are put away I forgot that I have them.
Joan Larson
December 29, 2022
My biggest challenge is giving myself permission to sew a little bit when there is so many other things that I really should be taking care of.
Diane Sugimoto
December 29, 2022
my biggest sewing organization challenge is keeping up with scraps of fabric