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Before you started reading this you were already gasping and the horror displayed in the photos. Before you start judging - offer some help! Here's the situation.

This room is multi-functional. Most of the time it serves as my sewing space. I don't have an official "studio" or sewing room. Unfortunately, I never have. Over the years, I've had to work in multi-purpose spaces such as my bedroom, my dining room, my office, and even my recording studio. This current space is also used for the production meetings for The Quilt Show during tapings. It is also used to shoot video projects such as Kool Kaleidoscope. You may have also noticed that we use it for taping the short Bernina Today videos with Nina McVeigh and Susan Beck.

In the first photo you will see the main part of the room. There is a large sewing table that also serves as cutting and pressing. There are two folding tables still set up from our recent taping (production meetings), and they are covered with all sorts of odds and ends. You'll see dozens of rolls of fabrics - these are my Red Rooster fabrics (the come to me on a roll). The love quilt is on a temporary design wall that was put up because my main design wall was needed for another project. In the other photo, you'll see an open shelve with a small supply of my fabric stash, er, I mean collection - and various quilting products such as freezer paper, fusible, etc. There is a make up mirror (for Alex) and a box of makeup used when production starts up. My main design wall, is to the left of this open shelf. This is not a complete list of stuff in the photos, but will help you identify some of the things you are seeing.

This room goes from organized (somewhat) to out of control several times a year. This in my first day back into this room since taping - so later today it WILL look MUCH better - but I also know this room will be a disaster again in a few weeks. Before I give you my take on the situation/problem, I'll let you chime in with your advice. What would you do? How do you fix it? What organizational tips/tricks can you suggest. What's missing here that you think will fix it? "Won't you Pleeease Pleeease Help Me?"