First off......can you believe that I have a clean corner to work in? This table was piled high with unfinished projects, fabrics, books, patterns, and all kinds of things for a while now. This little gem was on a tv tray right in front of the table. While I will never share the before pic, I made quite a change in this little corner of my sewing room.
What prompted me to clean this little corner, you ask? Well, it's like this........I can't deal too long with messy and there was a project under that pile somewhere that my daughter asked if I could do for her last year at the end of winter. Knowing she would soon want me to finish that little project, with colder weather approaching, I decided rather than just hunt that project out of the pile, I would begin with putting things away and organizing as I went and then I would do her little project for her.
She had a couple of shirts that she wanted some sort of embroidery on. I hunted up a pattern and this is what I did for her over this past weekend.
Same design on both shirts, different colors. I think she'll like them.
So, then, I ran across this little jewel that I started months ago and had gotten buried on that table. So, I finished it into a cute wall hanging for the dining room. It has really subdued colors, but I think it will work well for the wall. Jeff liked the roosters on it. He has a couple on the shelf above the dining room table.
This was a test stitch-out for the embroidery for my daughters shirts and it looked good, so I made a Travel sized pillow case out of it. Colors were Purple and Grey. Then I did a band at the top of the case with a cute purple fabric.
I also managed to get some Baby Burp Cloths made last weekend too! Wow! Was I productive or what? Best I've done in a long while. I guess I was just in the mood.
These prefolded diapers were some I had left from a package that I did some custom burp cloths for a customer. Yes, they too had taken up residence on that table I mentioned in the first part of this post. Are we beginning to see how piled up that table was?
I found some books I had forgotten were some inspiration for some quilts that I was going to do and some patterns that I had used and then got piled there as well.
I am really glad I got a bunch of projects done, finished, off the pile, or whatever you want to call it. I have a place for my vintage Singer Fashion Mate sewing machine to sit, waiting to be used at a moments notice, AND....I can actually see my tv again! How sad is that? LOL
Understand that organizing and putting away things will always be a work in progress, I am very glad I was able to make some progress in the past couple of weeks. Yes, it has taken me two weeks to get this far. I still have 3 little bins of scrap fabric pieces that I need to go through and sort then put them into their little sorted bins.
What projects or organization have you been able to do recently? Share them with me! I would love to see!.
Hope you have a Happy Quilting week!
Glenda
