I've told you all that I'm working on a quilt for my son and DIL, but as I will be having the floor in the studio replaced in the next few weeks, I'm also going through everything in the studio to determine whether I want to keep it or not, and clean everything that's left.
This is the top of one of the small bookcases, Notice the dust!
I cleaned everything, the mugs, the items in them, and put it all back. Notice I put all the buttons I found as I cleaned into one of the jars I had kept.
I cleaned these two taborets and sorted through everything in them. I got rid of a big bag of sewing notions: zippers, findings, ribbons, trims, buttons and other stuff, then resorted the stuff I had stored in them, and labelled everything. (Ergo buttons in a new jar.)
I figured cleaning out this bookcase would be easy, but it wasn't. I have quilting books from when I first started making quilts, over 50 years ago. Th ere were a lot of memories in those books.
Sorting through them was tough, and I didn't keep all of them. I more or less sorted them into "historical" and "how-to" and put the ones I look at most often together. I also moved printed copies of my tutorials to this bookshelf, as they seemed to belong there.
Anyway, I've got all the
stuff clean. Now I have to sort through the fabric in the bins and decide if I want to keep it.
I've been alternating between working ON the studio and IN the studio.
I have all the strip pairs sewn together for the Field of Dreams quilt. So that's moving along as well.
2 comments:
Hooray for getting all those nooks and crannies (and piles of stuff) CLEAN and sorted. Good luck with the fabrics - may your ruthlessness not be sidetracked (grin).
It does feel good sorting, cleaning and organizing, doesn’t it? The Bonne Mamman jars fit so well in the quilt studio with their gingham lids.
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