Organization

A new year means NEW beginnings, right?

I actually “recruited” hubby to help me with this before Christmas, but I’m just showing it now 🙂

remember how I got my new JUKI long arm and 12ft frame in early December

because it was 12ft (plus some) it did FIT in the space but it was really annoying to move around and blocked me a bit when having to reach my shelves with fabrics or my Accuquilt dies.

So I asked Dan to help me as I wanted to “turn” everything 90 degrees

It was quite a project and I realized that the TV had to come down. (It’s okay, the room next to mine has a TV)

My fabric shelf got put in the spot between the windows where the TV was, the long arm over on the right wall and then the long table got moved out and also turned, it really looks AWESOME now!!

I had fun rearranging my fabrics again and this time I didn’t use the red bins for the fabrics but they just sit on the shelves and then the bins have STUFF in them, on the bottom shelf I have long arm rulers and random notebooks and then other fabrics in the last bin, then the top I have one bin with pillows and one with insulbright and one with leftover binding strips instead of an old pretzel jar!

Swiffer seems to like them! I had to move the bins a bit and put a small quilt between two of them so he has something to land on when he jumps from the desk and up!

My desk is less cluttered now with books and things in the bins, I’m facing my shelves with Accuquilt dies and quilts.

Notice I used a shoe rack hanging thing for my stabilizers! I saw that somewhere a while ago and found one in the house that we didn’t use so WHOPTI it’s mine!!

 

I do have two blue bins over under the fabric shelf and one has small pieces of batting and the other is stuffed to the brim with pincushions! I only have a few on display now, I’ll figure out what to do with them later, but I had them above my ironing board and on two wooden shelves and they just collected SO much dust!

Now I keep the two shelves above my iron for tools I need near there and a few US and DK things, so even though I’ve been a US citizen now for over 2yrs I still have a few things from Denmark 🙂

below the ironing board I still have my storage bins and to the left I have my GO BIG! (and further left is my embroidery machine)

So while I waited to open the box from Michel Miller, I decided to sort thru my bins and plan ahead

here’s what I found (plus more)

a lazy girl Margo bag, fabrics ready, just no motivation!

found hand appliqued blocks, they’ve been in the bin for YEARS! so I was determined to do something with them… wait and see

This birthday pillow just needs to be assembled and maybe add letters?

I already did something with the “L” and the owl block and have a plan for the hexie flower

random Accuquilt shapes cut out, no plan

pictures of our old dog Peanut- I miss him!!

these were BOMs and I stopped after April, no plan

binding strip hexagons, already made a top I’ll show later

hexagon flowers, added a few more already, I need to keep this for long car rides!

I already worked a bit on it (sorry it’s upside down)

leftover Christmas block, already made into a pillow

log cabin scraps, already made a top!

fabric put aside for a smaller version of this pattern

leftover batiks from IB for a small version of this pattern, needs to still cut out

other IB scraps, I did cut out one little project and that’s almost done

Of course I’m totally inspired by organizing and have been sewing some projects, so stay tuned!

Not true Maury!