sometimes it just takes one little thing to set ideas into motion

for me, it was this:

June Tailor's mini thread rack

I was tired of having random spools of thread all over my sewing table and then knocking them on to the floor when I pulled a large quilt through the machine.  Yeah, I have thread holders.  two of them,

and they are even nicely mounted on the wall, but I found I wasn't really making the effort to get up and walk over there to put a thread away when I wanted to change colors.  The layout of my space wasn't really working for me.  So my original idea was to get a small thread holder that I could mount right next to where I sit at the sewing machine.   Yesterday I bought one and did just that.  But then...
I decided to rearrange the furniture, just adding the thread holder wasn't going to be enough and I had an epiphany about where to put all the big furniture pieces and make better use of the space in the room.  So I went from this:

to this:

 and now I can..
-access a larger surface of my design wall

-Sit further away from the design wall to get a better view

-use the wall shelving unit to hold all the crap that ends up all over my cutting table

-give George a safe place to play while i putter about

-protect my fabric from sunlight!

-use the walls to support a large quilt while machine quilting

-hang the small thread holder right next to the new spot i sit at the machine.

And overall have a more productive space!  This is very exciting.  Of course some random junk was displaced in the move (the old air conditioning unit, my yukata collection, that huge previously-hidden tub of vintage fabrics..) and I still need to find a new set up for the iron, but hey.. all in time.  Right now I'm very happy with it. :)