A Tribute to Gutermann 266

I can't decide if this means I do too many sewing projects with blue, or not nearly enough. Gutermann 266, I had no idea how much I love you.  I found these gems while trying to apply the principles of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up to my sewing supplies. I would say that these most definitely spark joy, so they stay.

Organizing sewing things is much, much harder than I thought. I can't find some easy, intuitive way to store things. I ogle pinterest sewing rooms, but I don't want to go out and buy a ton of matchy-matchy storage containers just to have them not be what I really need. I thought I knew where to start, but now I've hit a road block. My sewing stuff is still piled up in the living room, and baby stuff is still piled up in the sewing room. At this point, I feel like I need to be next to the kids, and having them up in the sewing room is almost out of the question. How do they ALWAYS find the sharpies?! There's also the small matter of finding wasp carcasses up there. How? Why?? And life wasps in the basement. Again, how? WHY? For now we'll stick with our "make it work" set up of sewing in the dining room then shoving everything into the parlor and closing the pocket doors when company comes.