Spring forward, Spring cleaning!

This post (from the pack rat) is being made while I take a break from cleaning, sorting and trying to organize. My paper crafting space is/was out of control. I don't have a very big surface for making cards and when the little table is covered with junk, papers, print outs, etc., it's even harder.

Yesterday and today were sort of stay home days. No plans really so I dug in. My sister works at a school and they had a yard sale. She grabbed me some white shelves that were new in the package for $2.00 each. Yeehaw! I moved my metal racks, which left me holes to patch but I'm sure that won't get done. I asked hubby where the paint is from this room and I got "the look" like you're kidding me right? :o) So, the holes will stay but it's okay. I've got enough going on to not even see little holes in the wall. Lots of cleaning and I found a table for making cards. Yay!!!!

I kind of messed up though because my wire baskets used to hang from the racks. When I moved them, I forgot about leaving space for the baskets to hang so now they are using my shelf I wanted for table-top stuff. Argh....I guess I should've hired an engineer for this project. LOL
I also hung up another magnet strip that I got from the Crate & Barrel outlet a few months ago. I had some miscellaneous tins that I needed another strip for so that's up too. Check!

And while I was at it, I cleaned up my ribbon basket and my paper. Gotta get back to work. For this side of the spare bedroom to look this good, I had to move a lot of junk. And guess where it is? On the other side of the room. LOL Breaks over!

Look what I found!

It's the top to my cutting table! hehe It's sad, isn't it? But I have a tendency to bury it under fabric, papers, half started projects.....you name it. So, I was pretty happy to see it. So happy in fact, that I trimmed the table runner I was working on, sewed on the binding and popped it in the washer tonight. I was hoping for a January UFO finish but that didn't happen. Guess I'll have to work extra hard this month.


And.....I moved my paper supplies into the spare room quite some time ago but hadn't moved my little racks with all my punches and ribbon. I did that on Sunday afternoon. I "think" this was the last of the paper crafts to be moved out of the sewing room. Now, I've asked my hubby to cut me a piece of particle board for that bit of wall above my cutting table for my notions.

Now to go see what my next project will be. It's either the big baseball quilt, aka, "The Quilt for Sasquatch" or the yellow and white kaleidoscope quilt. One has to be done on the longarm and one I can do myself on the Juki. I think that Sasquatch quilt can wait a little longer. :o)

H - E - L - P!!!!!!!!!

Oh my goodness, is anyone else buried.....in projects, in fabric, in life???

Okay, it's really not that bad but sometimes that's how I feel (and how I look). This is me on the floor in my sewing room. (The bins of fabric in the closet were probably a hint that I wasn't in the kitchen, eh? lol)

We are doing a UFO Challenge on our Yahoo group site, Backporch Friends. We've done it the last few years and it's helped several of us "collectors" to get at least a few UFO's done from our vast list of projects. At the first of the year we list 15 projects that we would like to get done. But first, you have to FIND your 15 projects. As you can see from the photo, I did find them. They were buried in bins, bags, the closet, the spare room, under the sewing table. I've got my list made of mostly tops that need to be quilted. There are a couple of projects that need borders but mostly they are "ready to quilt" projects. And here they are:

1. Christmas Trip Around the World - probably my oldest project from before I was a "real" quilter
2. Christmas Snowman flannel top - kit from Orange County Quilt Guild show 2009
3. Cozy Cottage Charmer - charm pack from Cozy Cottage, simple on-point setting
4. Delectable Mountains 30's - from a swap on Sew Many Swaps?
5. Birthday Table Runner - pattern I bought a few years ago. Half way through with satin stitching.
6. Richard's baseball quilt - retreat mystery. Quilt aka/Sasquatch Quilt :o)
7. Star Studded quilt - from class too many years ago
8. Bread & Butter quilt - yellow and white kaliedescope blocks, BPF swap.
9. Floral BOM - tops been done for a couple of years. Can't decide on quilting
10. Batik BOM - ditto from above
11. Red Pinwheels - top has been together for too long waiting for quilting. It's JUST pinwheels!
12. 30's four patch wall hanging - needs a border and maybe the "A" word around it.
13. Neens's Table Runner - needs to be quilted
14. June Lake wall hanging - snowballs and nine patches. I "might" attempt to hand quilt this one but I'd like to finish it before I'm 80 years old! LOL
15. Fruit Mystery quilt - from CA retreat

Do me a favor. In about two weeks, stop by and ask me if I've done anything yet? Thanks! :o)