I just spent the last four weeks cleaning everything up, labeling drawers, containers, refolding fabric, separating colors, tonal, batik, solids, tools, sticky notes, putting pins in the right containers, you name it and I did it. And I was so excited yesterday ---- beautiful little corner of the house, some of my mothers quilting hung on the wall and the wardrobe that I keep a lot of my stuff in covered with Command stickers to hang my Mom's hanging stuff, Sun catchers on the window, and I started cutting out fabric for a quilt and started sewing - I managed to get six-12" blocks done (double pin wheel), 18 to go, and I was so tired last night and I looked down - PUZELS (pronounced like the word put only puzel. Puzels are the threads that you cut off of your sewing. Who has time to put all of them into the waste basket. Besides which, when I throw a thread into the waste basket, it flies away!!!!!! So I just let them sit there til I am done for the evening and then vacuum them up - Got a new Shark - whoo-hoo, is that a charmer!!!! picks up puzels from 20 years ago!!!
So, in another six months I'll be doing the same thing I did for the past four weeks. But I will vacuum up yesterday this morning!!!!! Oh, yah, several years ago, I had my brother in law, the potter, make my mother a little jar with the word PUZEL written on it. It has a little cover and everything. She had the same problem as the rest of us - puzels. I thought it was a good idea. She quilted til she was around 95 and I thought this would be easier for her to not have to bend over and pick up threads. Well, two years ago, this coming July, Mom went to that great Quilting Retreat in the sky and I took the puzel jar. Guess what? I don't use it either. Mom was right. It takes more time to put a thread in a container than it does to let it fall where it may and vacuum it up later. Lots of memories in my little corner of the house. Edie