My Stash

This is my fourth post today! Amazing!

My friend Marion has asked people how they store their fabric stash. I took some pictures of mine so here we go!

This looks like an ordinary closet…

But in reality, it’s a DUAL purpose closet! (Just like my sewing room is also a bedroom! See here and here.)

On the left is my son’s side…

And on the right is my fabric stash : )

It’s all kinda crammed in there, but still somewhat neatly.

I think I would lose count if I tried to count how many “gonna-make-someday” projects are in there. ; )

Got my miracle - mostly : )

OK, so the miracle of all that STUFF going to the proper home didn't happen, but it all did find a home! Look closely and you'll see that it all got stuffed under the long table! How's that?! Brilliant! The point is, the room became very usable as a bedroom and a sewing room. Here's the before and after shots:

Before

After

And now his bed is ready!

Needing a miracle…

Aaaaack!!! How is a woman supposed to sew in a disaster like this???

Ugh. The work continues… That whole pile of stuff was in, under, and on a desk that was in the far left corner of the room, but the desk had to go to the garage to help make space in this room for a bed for my son! (Yes, I’ve asked my son who will be coming home from Honduras in 5 days to share his bedroom with my sewing machine, and hence –me- when I’m sewing. After 21 years of motherhood I finally have a sewing room and I’m not very willing to give it up! He was so sweet though and said he would sleep anywhere. After all, he’s just going to move out again in August.)

So, that pile is there - - staring at me - - glaring at me - - just daring me to figure out what to do with all that STUFF! Ugh. Not my favorite thing to do. So, in the next few days I hope to experience a miracle, similar to the parting of the Red Sea. Wherein the Stuff finds a home, my sewing machine/table/accoutrements migrate to the left side where the desk was, and a bed appears for my son to sleep on for the summer. All nice and clean and very usable, without stressing me out! Wish me luck!

I made enough room to actually quilt this puppy today. Do you like my ultra fancy quilting gloves? I found them at Walmart in the gardening department of all places. ; )