The great sewing room clean up of 2012

It seems to be a regular event in my life that I clean up my sewing room. It gets sooo bad that I need to do something. The catalyst this time was the purchase of 2 Ikea chests of drawers, Aneboda. I saw the big one for the first time on Lower Your Presser Foot blog as pattern storage and that idea stuck in my brain. I realised recently that I didn't have any more room for pattern storage! Shock!! Now I do. Snicker.

We had a council clean up which got rid of an old TV that was sitting in my sewing room. This gave me room for the drawers. I also discovered that the height is very handy for a small pressing area. I've put an Heirloom Shape n Press thingie on top and it's wonderful.

I thought I might as well clean up the rest of the room too so now have a nice clean sewing table as well as an organised bookshelf. I'm loving it. Best of all, I can now set my laptop up in my sewing room and as it's the warmest room in the house in winter, I'm snug and cosy. Ignore the unpainted wall and the half painted shelf thingie! I decided to put that up regardless of the fact that it was only half painted. It sort of goes with the wall. LOL

My organised bookshelf complete with legless baby Aneboda which sits on a box of vinyl records! Only because there's nowhere else for them. 

The top drawer of my unit holds my 'current' patterns. They are sorted by brand and then by pattern number. This lot is Simplicity, Kwik Sew, New Look, Vogue and some independent companies.

The second drawer holds McCalls, Burda and Jalie and has plenty of room for further expansion!
Unfortunately, the Jalies don't fit standing up. But for those who care, Burda magazine does.

The bottom drawer is my 'archives' and holds all my older patterns from the 80s, 90s and 00s sorted by brand and number for easy access.