Originally Posted by Hilary
I am so happy for you.
It is obvious you have an organizational knack. How did you organize the boxes? I tried to do it but there were so many things that didn't fit.
Can you share with me what is in each plastic box, so you know where everything goes?
Hoplelessly confused
Hil
Hey Hil,
The trick to organizing things is to find what things have in common and then put "like" things with "like." Let's see if I can recall from here (currently playing "hooky" at work!) what's in all my boxes...
Across the top and at the bottom next to the bed:
-- A quilt that my mom started for my son, and now that she's gone, I will finish for her. 2010!
-- Blue/white/silver fabric pieces I've been collecting to go with some wonderful (but obscenely expensive) hand-painted fabric I bought in Amsterdam and am afraid to cut into!
-- Fabric for another quilt I was going to make for a friend -- until she told me that she'd changed the colors in her room!
-- Small quilt kits that I got on sale and haven't gotten to yet.
-- Christmas fabric, mostly from my mom's stash, that I probably need to do something with.
-- Fall fabric that includes two nearly done table runner gifts and enough left over to make a wall quilt for me. 2010!
-- "Spec Fabric" -- pieces that I've found at sales that were too good to pass up, but don't have anything specific to do just yet.
-- A batch of wonderful batiks (again, on sale) that will become a quilt for good friends who got married last year. 2010!
-- Larger pieces of whites, creams, and light/dark blues (a recurring theme in most of my quilts)
The smaller containers next to the bed contain:
-- 2-1/2" strips
-- small scraps (good for paper piecing)
-- larger scraps (larger than the next batch)
-- (one each) 1-1/2", 2", 2-1/2", and 3" scraps
The salad mix containers near the door hold:
-- several small WIP
-- my black/white and white/black pairs being collected for something wonderful (dunno what yet...)
-- my growing "rainbow" collection of FQs, again waiting for the "perfect" quilt
-- bits and pieces of batting (sewn together, they make perfect filler for potholders, another favorite thing of mine; see avatar!)
As you can see, I tend to collect things until I find just the right pattern to use them with. As for patterns, I save ones I get online and torn out from magazines (less space than saving the entire issue) in the file boxes you see on the shelves next to the corner.
My fabulously wonderful husband gave me a super-cool label maker for Christmas, so I've been having fun putting nice labels on the file boxes, plastic drawers, etc, etc. ["Easily amused" -- that's me! :lol: ]