quiltmouse

Hiya!

This used to be a zoomin' thread, back when I bowed out off the board. Last year ending post in October. Does this mean ya'll are done? Awesome Possum. Guess it'll be me myself and I all by my lonely.

2019 I bought a big ole house many rooms. The room that will be my sewing room is empty, well, tools and drop cloths, pending finish renovations, including custom lighting. As the house is 1920, and I discovered the entire upstairs, 3 rooms, sleeping porch, bathroom, and huge hallway are all on the same circuit, well, custom outlets in the sewing room as well.

But, the room is just there. You know, pending. Cuz. That's how I roll.

So I sew on the sleep porch. The room that will be my bedroom is piled around the edges with sewing stuff & furniture. Conference size table, cutting table is in there. The guest room is currently Box Room. Lots and lots of boxes of fabric.

I sew on a card table. far third was piled with misc. middle third was piled with bits and pieces of several random in process projects, and I was sewing on the outside third. The bed (twin) is piled. When not piled, it is my design board. The bottom layer is rows of a quilt pending joining. I'd say there's a good 9-12 inches piled on there.

Cutting room. Somehow, a pile of fabric folded bolt size had got pushed off the conference table. Cat denies, but I'm saying, ya know? Laid there for um yea musta been a year. Cutting table is angled, and back in the small triangle is the table I die cut on. Back in there was the pile of fabric.

So, stage is set.

On Saturday March 1, I got fed up with the sewing porch and can't say cleaned, cuz no vac or dusting was involved. Tidying, yea, that's the ticket. Lots of tidying. I had trays of Star Climber's Courthouse logs in stages on the floor. Those ended up on the far third of the card table, at this point, they're L&E. Sewing porch now in much better, less frustrating use.

Well, you know how it goes when you make something better, other things scream for attention. Cutting room. I was die cutting. That poor lil pile of fabrics were crying. I took pity, and lint rollered the lot. There's a set of waterbed under cupboards stacked, make a great cabinet. at the end is a pile of bolt folded fabrics. The tidied up fabrics went there. Then the cupboard got lots of attention. It isn't done, per se, but mucho wander hither thither and non putting like with like, in their goes here for now places.

Last fall, I had got fed up with cat antics on the cutting table. I had cleared it off, and made a cover of a piece of King sheet. Now, I don't have to lint roller the cutting mats before use. The cover works great, really speeds up my cutting processes when I need to cut.

That said, the cutting table is semi piled as I am in process of cutting for 3 quilts. Planned use up of 18 FQ bundle purchased in August. Fat Quarter Shop's Star Climber, Border Creek Station's 2025 Stashbuster Challenge using Blackford's Beauty block, and AbyQuilts' BOM Optimism. I've pulled a selection of supporting fabrics. All of this is neatly organized on the cutting table.