It's Not a Bird...

 Seven years ago I made a Welcome quilt for my side door.

This was it before it was quilted. The door faces North, so it wasn't going to get direct sunlight, but it does get a lot of reflected light. I knew it would fade eventually.

This is it now, seven years later. Eventually has arrived. I don't want to  make the same quilt again. The pink letters became brittle and broke, so they aren't on the wall on the front porch any longer, and of course, Millie has gone to the Rainbow Bridge. I want to make another quilt for the door, but what?

I made flowers like this for Violette's quilt, back in 2008.

OF COURSE they will be PINK! I'm not quite sure about a final design, so I will keep playing around.

I got my second booster shot over the weekend, and cleared through some of the paper junk in the office and brought it to the town's Shred & Drug Takeback event. Always nice to dispose of that stuff safely (and for free.)

I was cleaning the bathroom and looked over at where I store my earrings. I stopped wearing earrings when I worked from home from April 2020 to the summer of 2021, and haven't resumed wearing them because the holes in my ears closed up. WELL... What am I keeping them for?

I got rid of MOST of them, and kept the ones I really liked. I also cleaned out some of the necklaces. My neighborhood has a big yard sale every year, so I bagged the stuff I will try to sell and set it aside. It's a good motivation to go through my extra stuff.

One Shelf

I've started working on organizing the stash. I took the fabrics off the shelf and sorted them, then put them back.

I also had some stuff to iron, so I've ironed it and stuck it on the shelf where it belongs.

One shelf down, four more to go!

Progress!

I've made progress.

The contents of the two big bins have been sorted. One of the small bins holds strips 2-1/2" wide; the other 2". The large bin is full of pieces I want to keep, and now have to sort. I sat down when I got home from work and went through the two big bins quickly.

How did I do it? What criteria did I use? Check out this list:

Is it bigger than 1-1/2" square? Keep
Do I like it? Keep
Is it sewn to something else? Toss
Has it got a bias edge? Toss
Have I got it in a larger piece of fabric? Toss
Have I got six thousand pieces of this stuff already? Toss
Do I like working with it? Keep
Do I hate it? Toss
Might I use it? Keep
Have I got too damn much of it? Toss
Do I really love it no matter how little I have? Keep

Am I getting tired of this? Toss
I hate it. Toss
It's boring. Toss
ACK! More of this damn stuff... Toss
I don't know. Toss.
Have I used it in the last year? No. Toss
It's tacky. Toss


Can you see the bin I have marked in the photo below?

It is a bin full of stuff that was sewn to other stuff. I've had it for six years. It was a lot easier to sort through after I did the two bins on the table. How easy?

I feel SO much better.  I feel....


LIBERATED!