I hear yah....I stopped quilting for a while. I think last quilt was in 2018. I did the whole mask thing and that wore me out. I recently decided to go though my sewing room and as I did , instead of donating a few Jelly rolls that were Christmas fabric. I decided to put an Irish chain together. First...cant believe how much I had to relearn, 2nd..decided I will get back into making stuff. I have so much fabric and thread it is crazy, but thankful I have it and bought it when prices were so much cheaper. Now I just have to start making things to reduce the stash.
After I pieced my quilt top, I decided to make a table cloth out of it. Then I decided I am going to use up all of the scraps. I made 5 pot holders and a revisable quilted table runner, made twine with scraps and then made into coaster, along with sewing fabric into two towels. I am so proud that I have no left over scraps from those jelly rolls. I am going to try and do that from now on instead of saving for later. I then started to clean up my sewing room. Its so overwhelming, but I have found so many tools, which was rewarding. . I do not need to go shopping for fabric, batting, thread in my lifetime or pretty much anything else. I did buy a cordless iron, which I am not opening until I am done going through everything. I also purchased a pegboard from Ikea for my closet, should be in tomorrow. I will hang many of my tools and templates. Fabric is the hardest as there is so much. The other struggle is all of the Cutting dies, I love having them, but they take alot of space. I can not work in clutter, I find myself just not going in that room when it becomes cluttered. One mistake I have made so far is that I have not been labeling. I will do that in a few weeks. I am trying to remove as much furniture, book selve, fabric etc. that are on the floor I have a sweet sixteen quilt machine which takes up space in my small sewing room. I am debating on getting rid of my sewing table, sewing machine that drops down. Its small no drawers, I love it but it takes up space. I have a craft table that goes up and down and thinking of using that instead and the other craft table for cutting and ironing. that leaves the Sweet Sixteen table. Can't wait till this cleaning project is over. I will be teaching a friends 10 year old to sew once done. I also have been creating her a space. I just got a new chair and pulled out my old sewing machine for her. Good motivation to get this done. It is not an overnight process, I thought this would be done in a few hours...its been several weeks and work on it most days. few more days and it will be done. Thanks for listening...love all of the ideas that I read on this site.