Playing With Fabric
Jun. 7th, 2014 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Thursday and yesterday, I pulled down my stack of "patriotic" themed quilting cottons and cut some donations for the quilting guild next week. July's Opportunity Basket raffle will be patriotic fabrics, so I'm donating a total of ten pieces, all at least half a yard long. I also auditioned various fabrics and cut out and sewed five Stashaholic's Dream Blocks for that block raffle. Pics of my blocks to be posted... eventually. I'm amused that my mother and husband both loved the yellow/red one I made, but had completely different reactions on the purple/green one.
I also have continued on with the process of pulling fabrics I no longer want from my shelves. Still not done, and it's depressing how little visual difference my pulls (nearly a two-foot stack at this point) make to the shelves. And, of course, now that Squiddle is fully mobile and has found his way into the sewing area at least once, I'm doing a full reorganization, moving all things that little hands can grab and do damage with/to, up. So now all my patterns are on the third shelf, and I've gone through my spools of thread and tested and discarded a lot of the old ones on wooden spools. The threads are starting to rot. So I'll be on the lookout for another interesting glass jar to put those in. I've got another couple large tubs from Target, so time to start organizing the bottom-shelf items into those.
I also have continued on with the process of pulling fabrics I no longer want from my shelves. Still not done, and it's depressing how little visual difference my pulls (nearly a two-foot stack at this point) make to the shelves. And, of course, now that Squiddle is fully mobile and has found his way into the sewing area at least once, I'm doing a full reorganization, moving all things that little hands can grab and do damage with/to, up. So now all my patterns are on the third shelf, and I've gone through my spools of thread and tested and discarded a lot of the old ones on wooden spools. The threads are starting to rot. So I'll be on the lookout for another interesting glass jar to put those in. I've got another couple large tubs from Target, so time to start organizing the bottom-shelf items into those.
