Non-quilters do not understand
#44
I know about this! My friends or visitors just look in Awe.. they just don't understand! I love my messy sewing room, even when not sewing, I go in and look and touch and think about the pretty fabrics! LOL... I do know at my age, almost 77, that I can NEVER, even if I sewed 24 hours a day, use up all these wonders! However, I have coached my DGD (age 17, who is not interested in sewing), about the costs of everything, and how much to charge for my 8 machines, scissors, templates, rulers, etc, if I should happen to be "called away", so everything won't get thrown away.. the proceeds could help pay for her College. My son loves the Singer Treadle in Parlor case, he would use that one himself.
#45
I'm with you, my sewing room has a door on it and it's usually shut ! (for a reason)
You are so right .. they really do not get it... at all. But I have run into some quilters that don't get it either.. when it comes to smallish pieces... they just say pitch the scraps... but some quilters don't get the scrap thing either.
I am glad my sewing space in in the basement.. guests don't see my "stuff" unless they are very "quilter friendly". That way I don't have to provide any "reason" for the "stuff".
I am glad my sewing space in in the basement.. guests don't see my "stuff" unless they are very "quilter friendly". That way I don't have to provide any "reason" for the "stuff".
#46
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You are so right .. they really do not get it... at all. But I have run into some quilters that don't get it either.. when it comes to smallish pieces... they just say pitch the scraps... but some quilters don't get the scrap thing either.
I am glad my sewing space in in the basement.. guests don't see my "stuff" unless they are very "quilter friendly". That way I don't have to provide any "reason" for the "stuff".
I am glad my sewing space in in the basement.. guests don't see my "stuff" unless they are very "quilter friendly". That way I don't have to provide any "reason" for the "stuff".
#47
My house is messy ... with fabric piles all over the place and lots of bits of scraps .... but I wouldn't have it any other way. On the bad days I can sit in my "squalor" and dream, plan, and process. And on the good days I can sew up a storm! It's a beautiful life I have!
#49
I save all my scraps & have a bag beside my chair for them. It's such fun to go back through it for a little piece of this or that for a quilt & see all the gorgeous colors & patterns from previous projects. Makes me feel like I've hit the lottery! LOL!
#50
I have a problem letting go of things that are useful even though I may not have an immediate use for them but I am not a real hoarder. I have given away my antique block collection to a fabric artist who will use them for something worthy, orphan blocks and fabric to charity quilters, projects from my DMs stash, etc. Outgrown clothing goes to one of three places: to charity, to the cut-up for quilts area or the rag bag. Right now I am rapidly using the thin sheets and flannels I didn't toss to make my first crochet rag rugs. They really eat up the fabric. I can't wait to finish so I can see if the satin and taffeta linings I saved will work for table mats. But I almost regret the 10 pounds of heavy double knit saved 40 years from my time at the sewing factory given to a rag weaver. It would have made nifty crocheted rugs.
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