Must. Clean. Studio.

The sewing studio has reached critical mess. I had to clean it up. This photo was taken about halfway through. It's not perfect, but it's better.

Free Piecing for Julie

I love free-piecing. I really do. I love how it takes over the entire studio. Julie, while you can't see any finished blocks or panels in this picture, you can see lots of fabrics that will go in your quilt ...and some that won't!

The Last Remaining Obstacle

...to a clean sewing room is my cat, Millie. My Office is clean and organized. I've shredded years of old paperwork and cleaned out old books, magazines and stuff. I've dusted and rearranged what's left.

Then I cleaned the rest of the house. The living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom are all sparkling. That leaves the Sewing Room. Which I'll be working on today, as soon as the obstacle in question decides to find a better place to nap.

Still no Quilts...

Here are a pair of houses inspired by Kidbean for his little brother's quilt...I'm cleaning my computer room/office. I am going through every item on every shelf, sorting through every drawer and going through every file and piece of paper in there.

Old books are banished, and the library will be the beneficiary. (I am also a member of Paperback Book Swap, and many books will be posted there.) Now that my son is a grown man, I have shredded all the papers relating to the fight for child support from his father. That was liberating.

I work as a Geek during the day, and have managed to accumulate several computer hard drives, USB, PS2 and serial mice, mousepads, gender bender connections, CD's of Operating Systems I no longer use (or care to), defective PDA's, hubs, switches, power cables and other assorted junk. It's all going away. (Yes, I know how to safely erase & dispose the hard drives.)

Old cassette tapes are going, as well as a dozen exercise videos. I no longer have a cassette player and my VCR died years ago.

I've already filled six garbage bags full of shredded paper. It's been the room where everything goes "for now." Well, it's now, and I have no patience for the stuff.

No Quilts

As usual, when I am deep into a project, I tend to ignore everything else. I have finished the top of "Devon Town."Now I get to clean the house. My sewing studio is a real mess. I've got bits of fabrics all over each table, covering all the chairs and scattered about the floor. My dining room table is pushed to one side of the room. My computer room has been a catch-all for months. It's become a junk room. I haven't vacuumed in weeks, and I've got papers stacked up in piles all over. I have books and bookcases in every room, some that haven't been touched in years occupying prime real estate.

So I got started. The place still looks messy, but it's headed in the right direction. I've got guests visiting after Thanksgiving, and I want the place nice and organized well ahead of time.

By that time I'll be ready to finish "Devon Town."

Cleaning the Messy Sewing Room

I have decided that my sewing room has reached Critical Mess and needs to be thoroughly cleaned and neatened up.

Which is why I don't have much to post today, and no, I am not showing pictures. Well, I won a cute little camcorder last week and took a "Before" video. Maybe I will show you an "After" when it is nice and clean. But my son is coming over for dinner tonight, so it won't be tomorrow.

Here, though, is a design for a black and white bento box kitty quilt.And here is how it got sewn up. I do not know how it transformed itself so wildly.But I don't think I am going to take it apart. (I can hear Tonya cheering already!)

oh oh. I just figured out what I did wrong. Easy fix!