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Old 02-24-2025, 06:51 AM
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Snooze2978
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Location: Carroll, Iowa
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It feels great when everything is organized where it should be. I'd let the bins under my cutting table get cluttered with scraps, orphan blocks, etc clutter the area instead of putting them into the bins they belonged in.

After I had finished my Drunkard's Path quilts, I decided to go thru my stash and pull any fabric that didn't sing to me any longer that were on the shelves, then hit the bins under the cutting table and pulled all the oversized scraps, orphan blocks, etc. Put them into bags by color if possible or type like all the fat quarters in bags together, border fabrics together, whites together and so on. I ended up with nearly 15 bags of fabrics stuffed to the gills. Fabric does get heavy when you try to lift up a number of bags at one time not to mention how they like to slide out of your hands. But now my bins have nothing on top of them but just another bin. I can put my hand between folded fabrics on the shelves as before they were just stuffed in. I was able to use the shelves that used to hold my collection of DVD movies for the partial bolts that have been inhuge totes under the quilt machine so now I can see what fabrics I have to work with. Those totes now hold the pillow forms I had thrown up on top of the freezer and the box of battings still in their packing box upstairs is now in another tote so I'm slowly putting things where they are most needed and clearing out things I no longer need. It's a great feeling.

I also like to vacuum after I finishe a project before starting another one. Right now I'm working on 2 projects going back and forth with them depending on what needs done. Should have them both nearly done or completely done by the end of this week. YEAH!!!! One is a UFO from 5-6 years ago.
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