Oh my! Since I have to rearrange my sewing room furniture when I long-arm quilt my tops, I usually piece about 5 quilt tops before I start quilting. It has always been easy to move the stuff on the long-arm into the closet and fold up the sewing table and I'm on my way. Well, it's time to quilt and something has happened to my sewing room and closet........there is no more room to put anything anywhere! The closet is full of 2 rolls of batting and a huge sack of fleece fabric for dog beds (courtesy of Hancock's sale). The long arm is filled and stacked with fabric for various on-line blocks of the month (that I have not even started) AND the floor is lined with strategically-spaced baskets of fabric, sacks of completed quilts to mail, and the stack of backings for the quilts to be quilted! At this point, I'm not even sure where to start.....so I've been procrastinating for 3 days.........
What do you do when you don't know what to do? Of course, you sew! ! ! ! So, I found a pile of scrap flannel and I am piecing a string quilt....I'm almost done with the top and I will add it to the pile and will get clearing out the room for quilting. But, I've gotta tell you.......sewing that extra top really relaxed me and made me feel better about the pile of fabric I have.
But, I've gotta get something cleared out........so today (or tomorrow if I don't finish the top), I'm going to get out my backing fabrics for all the quilts to quilt, sew them if necessary, get my batting out and lastly.............pile all the other stuff into the spare bedroom (since no one is coming to visit for a bit)! Thank goodness for spare bedrooms (or what I like to call "Nora's Quilting Annex"! ! !