Originally Posted by
kay carlson
Last evening I pulled everything out of the large closet upstairs and set aside some projects I have absolutely no desire to finish. Fabrics, batting, and interfacings were sorted and placed in appropriate containers. Since I have almost completed this closet, I will soon be going to another area to declutter and purge.
My parents grew up during the Great Depression of the early 1930's. I can be very resourceful and like to repurpose items with my skills and creativity. However, I have come to the conclusion that I will work on the following:1) I will be more selective in projects in the future 2) I have made some mistakes in selecting some projects in the past, but this is not life threatening 3) I do not have to warehouse these mistakes 4) I can cut my losses and move on 5) I can pass items forward where they can be used 6) This is a process...
How many of us are in the same situation tonight?
Know the feeling. Soooooooo Happy for you, getting to the point of letting go takes such a long time but feels great when you get there. I too love to repurpose items, some times I feel like I've done more when I repurpose than when I make new (just me). I was very lucky when I first started quilting (the friend who started), showed me a closet FILLED TO THE TOP with things started but not finished. She told me I would also have a closet like this if I didn't do some thing about it before it got started. I was lucky she did this, because I have been very careful to NOT fall in love with some thing from the picture. If I start it (I always try to get a 1/4 extra yard of each fabric for extra block), and find that I'm NOT liking it I'll finish that block and quit. I will still have fabric for a quilt, so I will make it into some thing that I know I like. The one block will some times get cut up and used in a scrap block, or I take it to a quilt store I have gone to for a long time and I put it in the take one leave one basket (it's full of homeless blocks). I've found some cute blocks, that the maker didn't like. I've left blocks I didn't like, but others loved. The owner gets a big kick out of seeing what goes into the basket and how it ends up after you finished with it. I've also taken things out of my friends closet and remade them into some thing different.