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Old 05-03-2010, 04:30 AM
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nana2
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DGD and I just started this project. I am using Acid free Mat Boards that I have had setting around in a corner collecting dust for at least 10 years. Along with all the fabrics we have purchased, there are fabrics from my mothers and from friends who have given up quilting. Every time we work on a project these fabrics just get more jumbled. There is just tooooooooo much confussion when trying to select fabric to work with. We have put EVERYTHING on hold until we get our fabrics more managable. So far we have wrapped over 100 fabrics and filled one book shelf. There are still a lot of fabrics to handle and I do have a built in storage cabinet in sewing room about 10' x 8'. Fabrics get so jumbled in there that we forget we even have them. One thing I have discovered while working on this project is that it is much easier to find a new home for some of the fabrics that I have had for years and know that I will not even want to use them now. (I use to make a lot of my clothes) I don't even feel any pain when I put them in a bag to go to their new home. Right now I have a stack of fabrics that are thrown on the floor and looks like a great big mess, BUT I also have a book shelf of very accessible fabrics and just the thought that GD and I can have ALL of our fabrics like this, keeps us going. When our summer days get to be 90 + and too uncomfortable for us to want to be outside, we will be in our well organized sewing room with the comfort of the A/C AND our sewing machines will be humming!!!!!!!!!! So take the plunge along with us!!!!!!!!!!
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