What a Difference a Few Days Make...

It is done !!!  My QUILT ROOM is clean and organized (as long as you don't ask me to open the closet door - ha!).  Here are some pics.  I no longer have an excuse NOT to be quilting in it any more (except for maybe not finding stuff because it is now organized???). 




Design Wall with awesome Anna Maria Horner fabric waiting for a bright idea!

I am embarassed to admit this, but I am embarassed how much fabric I have.  Quilters have a saying "The quilter that dies with the most fabric, wins!"  I look at it all and see a time in my life when I had no time or energy to quilt, so I bought fabric instead - it was easier and at least I felt I was doing something.  Not anymore.  All that material is now a challenge to me - it is saying "Use me now!".

If I make the quilts SIMPLE, I may be able to use most of the fabric in my lifetime!!!  Of course, that is, if I don't buy any more.  (Oh, now that is really FUNNY!)

Blessings - Don't let that fabric go to waste!!!
Kat 

To Organize is to Simplify???

I am not big on true organization - you know, the kind where you go to the organizer store and purchase every type of color folder, color file labels, sticky notes, bulletin boards, dividers, filing boxes, matching accessories to hold every imaginable item, etc.  OK - now you know I am not the type because I don't even know what all the organizing "stuff" is called.  For those who are (Trish, Lea - but who is naming names) - more power to you.  

I must admit, however, when I do try to organize, it typically does not make things SIMPLER for me.  I seem to remember where things are when they are in messy piles or scattered all over kingdom come.  But put something in some organized system - ha!!!! - I will look for DAYS for it - getting all flustered and driving everyone crazy.  I mean, the "lost" item has to be in some logical (????) place, RIGHT?

Though as I thought about it, it would be nice for my quilt room to look cleaner and, well, simpler.  So, I started "organizing" last week, which basically meant

• trying to get fabrics folded and stacked together in some meaningful manner,
• putting UFOs (UnFinished Objects, of which I have an EMBARASSING number) in one place and hidden from view so I didn't try to work on 10 or 15 of them at a time (can you say ADD?), and 
• storing all my various ephemera and tools away in some form of containers.  

It is still a work in progress, but there is progress.  It may not be the work of an organizational guru, but for me it is an organizational work of art.  

Some BEFORE pics:

And what did I learn from this exercise in organization?  It is AMAZING how much room you save when you fold your fabric instead of just cramming it in somewhere !!!  Now I have room for MORE FABRIC !!! 

Some AFTER pics:

Stay tuned for pics of my finished SIMPLER quilt room!

Blessings,

Kat