Sunday, September 12, 2010

Waning Summer and a Re-Store Task

Another alfresco breakfast....Saturday morning...but, honestly, it was so cold I had to wear my down vest.  But I'm going to enjoy outdoor breakfasts while I can.

The other big task I tackled was.....

...ironing (again) and refolding fabric, and putting it on shelves like books.  That fabric used to occupy more than one and a half shelves.  I folded them around sheets of high quality card stock--for the longer pieces I used two to four sheets as the base.  I think this will work.  One of my on-line groups have been exploring options for stash storage.  Actually, this isn't exactly stash--it's for quilts that are already planned.  (I do have plenty of stash--and I ironed and folded some of those pieces today.)

The antique sewing machines on the upper shelf aren't yet ready for sewing--they need more cleaning, and needles, which I haven't yet ordered.

What is it about blue and yellow quilts--they're a bit like potato chips--can't have just one, and the process of making one is so joyous!

I also worked on layering the pink/white/etc. quilt I put together on Labor Day.  I'd mismeasured and/or mislabeled the batting and it was too short---so, since it's purpose was just to use up those blocks and become a quilt instead of blocks stuffed in a box, I added some batting that I'd cut off the edge of another quilt.  I took pictures of that process so I could post about that in a couple of days.

Happy quiltmaking.....

1 comment:

Pokey said...

I'm hoping to get organized, I probably should try that 15 minutes method, but it's so much more fun to do the sewing with the 15 minutes, lol. Love the sewing machines, working or not, they are jewels in the shelf!

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