:-) Sigh....I tied into a several-day project of re-organizing my sewing room.
Oh.
My.
Word.
It was SUCH a mess!! So all the furniture went out, all the fabric went out, all the projects -- finished and unfinished! -- went out, and the cleaning and sorting began.
I didn't realize how much fabric I have....!! I got it all sorted by color, and stacked to the ceiling in the closet. Before I'd kept lines or types separated, but this is much better. I can see at a glance what I have.Um....I think I can lay off the background fabrics for a while. I think I don't need to buy any fabric until the next millennium!!
I organized my projects, too. I bought hang-up shelves for my closet rod, and stacked boxed-up projects into them so I can pull them out easily. Before they were stacked willy-nilly on the closet floor and I could never find something without pulling out a million things! UGH! How can I complete Judy's UFO Challenge if I can't find the UFO!? So that's much better!
I kept my peg racks on the wall for blocks to hang on. They're pretty!! :-) and they are a good reminder that those projects need attention.
I had to drop everything on Sunday, though, with a phone call from the post office. Did I wanna come up and get my baby chicks!? I wasn't expecting them 'til Monday, but okay. Yeah. :-) They are the cutest little things! My friend and fellow quilter Tracy and her family piggy-backed the order with us, so they came Monday to pick up their baker's dozen. Nothing bonds people like quilting and chickens! LOL
With all this going on, I managed to actually sew!!! I'd curtailed my sewing time while Jeff was home, so it was heaven to sew nearly the whole day today. I worked on Eventide (a Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. pattern), Thelma's sew-along at Cupcakes n' Daisies. I've also been working on the mystery quilt I'm leading at my club (a tease, since I can't show it to you!), and I've got 25 blocks finished on the Farmer's Wife. I'll be doing a dozen or so more blocks for the FW this week in preparation for our monthly class.
And while doing all these, I've also been "leaders and enders"-ing on Cathedral Stars, the class I missed with Bonnie Hunter. She's right...it's like getting a bonus quilt while you work on another one!!! I have my little basket of "twosies" -- 2 - 2" squares, a light and a medium/dark -- stacked up and ready to feed into the machine between chain sewing other units. Fun, fun, fun!!
And all in an orderly room that doesn't smother me anymore!
Paul wrote "For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how orderly you are and how firm your faith in Christ is." (Colossians 2:5 NIV)
Thank the Lord that my faith in Christ is much firmer than my ability to keep my sewing room orderly!! :-D
Blessings!
