An organized space

Every time I look in my sewing cabinet, I feel good! It's amazing how you can let things go, to the point where you didn't realize how bad it was until you clean it up. Like shaving your legs :) So now my sewing legs are shaved, and I feel ready to face the world.

In the process of the organize and purge, I found several projects already started. There's a baby quilt for granddaughter Ivy that's been cut out and sketched out and a quilt for my son also cut out and bagged. That was fun to see. I fall in love with the fabrics when I plan them out and buy them. But I guess I'm fickle, and I forget my loved ones until I discover them again! Now I'm excited about those projects again, so it's win-win. Here's my next project: Ivy's quilt.

And so it begins....

I've been itching to get back into my quilting for many moons. But life takes over, and you get involved in so many things. When the kids were all in school, I thought I'd have more time, but there was PTO, volunteering, and lots of church responsibilities. Then I became a teacher and started working, so there was less time. So I've decided to stop waiting for there to be more time, and just make time to get back into it.

One of my limitations has been that I'm a pretty slow hand-quilter, and I don't know how to machine quilt with any real level of attractiveness. I make a baby quilt for each of my grandchildren, and it's all hand-quilted. So they get those quilts at about age 1 1/2! So sad. Even worse is that this keeps me from taking on other new and fun projects that don't take so long. This year I've challenged myself to complete 8 quilts of various sizes. I want to create 5 to donate to Quilts of Valor, plus another 3 or so for home use. Our stash of quilts has really disappeared over the years, as some have been worn out or damaged, but not replaced.

I started this week by making quilts for our assistant principal and his wife, who just had twin girls. I decided to tie them, so it could be quick. One down, one needs to finish tying, then binding. The design is a postage stamp design, and it was fun to make. I altered the sizes of the blocks to make it more fun, but kept the fabrics the same. But it made me itch for when my machine quilting skills improve enough to do some stippling instead!


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