My Sewing Setup

I hesitate to call this my sewing room since it's a temporary location - it's too cold in the rec room right now (cheap sliding door lets in the cold plus there's no heavy curtain to keep the cold air contained). Tory, a net buddy, wanted to know if I had pictures of my setup so I'm putting this together for her to check out.

Bernette 60 is sitting on the pull-out keyboard shelf of the desk which hubby had built years ago and which he doesn't use anymore. I had to put the machine there because the knee room below is not deep enough (see that shelf with the old Mac computer). You can see that fanny pack project sitting to the left of the machine. I'm working through the steps that I can understand (some of the directions are not quite clear, plus there are some techniques such as gathering that I need to have explained to me by the sewing teacher).

To keep my stuff more organized, I bought that fishing bait box from WalMart. Very cheap for just 15 dollars. There's the sewing machine needles and some pins on the left (I have a little box full of pins out somewhere else - really must find it and put it back here), and on the left I have a seam stitch gauge with a partly-melted plastic slider (I ran the iron over it before I realized what I'd done) and a seam ripper on the right. As you can see, there's more space for other stuff. In the pull-out drawers, I have a thimble that I found at an antique shop that is just perfect for my small finger. Hard to find thimbles that fit me at the local fabric stores. A pack of sewing needles in different sizes (elsewhere in the office). Tape measurement, and accessories for the machine. Looking forward to filling this up with more footers from G Street Fabric . . .

Here I have space for 3 organizers, and I'm keeping scissors and rotary cutters on the left (be careful with those rotary cutters - these really are sharp and you don't want to be cutting your artery vein open when you're home alone) and other stuff on the right. I tried putting some of my pins in one of the organizers, but the removable slots aren't high enough and the pins just wander elsewhere when I put the organizer back in. Going to have to look for something to put these pins in so these all stay in one place - ideas?