My sister came up for a couple days of helping Me to get some work around home done and on the rainy day we spent it in the sewing room. We purged, sorted, folded, found a home for everything- my room is Wonderful! The shelves are organized - she finished the last 2 shelves today after we cleaned the garage and she let me know there is * some* room on my shelves- and I’m low on greens & browns. 🤗
I actually took 9, NIne, holy cow- Nine big black garbage bags of scraps, mixed blend fabrics, knits, that had been given to me,- a Lot of stuff I would never use, out- donated to a group who makes quilts for shelters, homeless people-
I can not even imagine how much fabric was in those bags- I know a few of them weighed a good 30+ pounds. So, I probably gave away over 200 pounds of fabric.
It’s clean, organized, encouraging. I still have a stack of quilts to get quilted, a stack that needs some work and I think 5 projects in bags I may ( or not) get to & finish up.. in the 13 years we have been in this house it has been so cluttered in there- it is so nice to finally feel like it’s not an embarrassment to have someone stop by.
my sister quilts too- and the first day she did wind up with a box of fabric to take home- probably 10-15 yards. She went from calling me a hoarder- that it’s good I do this moratorium- I don’t need to be buying anything— to today saying- there is room, you can buy some fabric again.
I don’t think so though- not this year- I still have plenty to finish up
and maybe things will be different next year and maybe we will be able to take a vacation- then I won’t feel guilty visiting new shops in places we travel to and spending a bit- or maybe there will be a show for us to visit.,.
I look forward to working in there again.
i do have one corner to clean up yet, but it’s a small area and won’t take me long. I know what’s there, I just need to put things where they belong.