Today is a day I have desperately been in need of. Â A QUIET DAY!!
On Friday Kelli and I hit the send button and sent off our manuscript for our new quilt book to the publisher. Â It was such a huge relief…a huge relief. Â We’re by no means done with the book as there will be rewrites and proofing but for now, we are breathing a little more easily.
However…our eyes have been opened to all the things we have let slack while we’re been so busy….like our sewing rooms….
Oh my word!!! Â It is about the worst I have ever let it get. Â Beyond that, I’ve left the leaves out in the table in the dining room and there is fabric and paper and STUFF all over that too. Â I spent much of yesterday working on this but didn’t get to the dining room.
Have I said what a saint my husband is to put up with all of this?!?! Â I keep having a fantasy that once we get to the new house, I’ll keep things more contained. Â I guess one can hope right?? Â In the meantime this mess has to be tackled!
One of the things that is hardest for me is deciding how to store some of the left over fabric. Â A few of the quilts in the book were sewn with Moda fabric lines. Â We will have 30 layer cake squares left over…or 35 charm squares….I hate to just throw that in with other fabric when all of it coordinates…ah… Â If anyone has advice on storing those things from fabric lines, I’d love to hear it.
I have made great progress…but for now, I’m ready to set some of this cleaning aside and go work on a charity quilt on the quilting frame…wow it’s nice to have some free time to choose what I want to do…of course, it’s still quilting related..but I can choose at least for the weekend….then it’s back to reality.
I put all my Bonnie and Camille leftover fabric in a clear plastic container. Then when I have
lots of scraps I make a quilt.
Gosh, I wish I lived next to you you have my kind of work ethic. I keep my layer cakes in a tote (dollar store) and seperate the lines by layers of cardboard (write the line on the top board). I have smaller size totes that hold charms which I keep the same way. I find I like to ‘marry’ lines, so they blend into a project sometime down the way.
I’ve always been that messy, I hate it, and can’t seem to stop getting into messes. Oh well clean house dirty mind, dirty house, clean mind.
My sewing room is so messy, If I clean it I can’t find anything. Good luck with your book. Have fun.
I have a needlepoint sampler that says “Dull women have immaculate houses.” I must be interesting as the dickens. I do try to clean up my sewing room yet somehow get sidetracked.
My sewing room looked like this last week. Good luck. It takes time to sort it out. I would keep them in a seperate bag