Or at the very least, it should be. ‘Cause it’s awesome.
JR and I just redid our sewing space, so everything is nice and neat (and will hopefully stay that way!)
See, we’ve barely begun, and already I can feel your jealousy. It’s okay. That’s perfectly natural. I mean, look at it! We’ve got a series of small plastic drawers for most costumes and props, and nice sealed-up closet for things that need to be hung up. Fabric, separated by color, is in the wide chests of drawers.
Taking inspiration from the awesome costumer Keldar, each drawer has a picture of each costume, for easy identification. They’re taped to the inside, to keep them from falling off or getting lost.
The hanging clothes have similar tags, making it easy to find the costume despite the garment bags. And each tag has our names, phone number and address, in case we bring the costume somewhere and lose it.
All these drawers make it really easy to find everything and put elements back where they go. This means there’s no reason to leave anything on the worktable, because everything has a place.
Costuming is something I’m finding I have less and less time for, but at the same time I am finding how much I need to spend time making something phsyical, as opposed to word on paper. In the past, this meant tossing out the whole day to bury myself in debris and mayhem. But with this set up, I can go downstairs, open the Wolverine drawer, do a seam or three, and then put everything back in its drawer for later. It takes longer, but since I don’t really have any deadlines for these costumes (y’know, ’cause it’s a hobby), that’s not really a bad thing.
Yes, yes, I am jealous. You are so much more organized that I could even hope to be. I may have more gadgets, more machines, some for very specialized uses, but chances are, I can’t find them.
Well, all you have to do is:
- Clean out everything from your space
- Get rid everything you know you’re never going to use again
- Drop a considerable amount at the Container Store for the stuff you do use.
It took us a week to do that small room. But it was totally worth it.