Organizing the Chaos

Is there a creative person out there that keeps all of their supplies, all of their space, and all of their process organized?

I have a theory about creativity and that is that the process of creation requires cycling through chaos and organization, destruction and construction.

I don't like clutter and I'm always worried my desk, which is the only dedicated workspace I have right now, is going to end up too cluttered to use and when I first set it up I freaked out every time something was left o it. But over time I've loosened up and now I just have to declutter it periodically. I keep thinking maybe eventually I'll learn how to keep my workspace clean at all times and kind of feel like I've failed every time I discover that it's messy again. But I realized this latest time of diving into the decluttering process that almost all of the clutter is creative clutter. It's fabric, and yarn, and bobbins full of singles needing to be plied, and cloth needing to be hemmed and various fiber tools. And all of it ended up there as part of the creative process. And more and more I'm starting to see decluttering not as something I have to get out of the way before I get to be creative but as a natural part of the creative process. It's a cycle with phases and the next phase of the cycle is hemming the cloth, wet-finishing labeling and storing my handspun, deciding what's going to happen next with that piece of fabric, and then following through and cataloging the dye samples so I can put those away too.