Originally Posted by
retiredteacher09
WMUTeach and Julienm1: That gnome has been in my sewing room way too many times for the past 4 months.
WMUTeach: I totally understand being overwhelmed by too many projects. I am really trying to concentrate on finishing a top and only working on one leader/ender project at a time. I get carried away at times when I see all of the unfinished projects and add another to my sewing pile.
Last night, I was pleased I could see a little more area on my cutting table. I have 9 slips of paper in a fabric basket and when I need a sewing diversion, I pull one of them and work 10-15 minutes on the topic. This has helped me get through a shoebox tub of triangle shaped fabric that needed to be cut to accurate sizes along with trimming fabric for split rectangles. I’m still working on emptying a box of squares that need to be organized and possibly trimmed to a size I use. Some other topics included are going through Christmas fabric and boxes with scraps just thrown in that need to be sorted, possibly trimmed, and put away.
Nice idea! I usually put things on my "Memos" list on my phone, but it's pretty easy to ignore that. (Am I bad?) When my kids were little we did what we called, "the blitz!" We got some good, dance music on, turned on a timer for 15 minutes, then raced around the house picking up things and doing small, cleaning chores. When the timer went off, we froze. That was it, no more cleaning for the day. We did continue to dance though.
~ C