Decluttering

My sewing room and it is almost finished. I have gone through most of my bins and I have several bags and boxes full of fabric ready to go to the Annual Last Chance Auction that our guild hosts next week! It looks and feels good to pass on some perfectly good fabric, patterns and tools that I no longer am in love with. I even moved my bins around and can you believe it, I have 4 large empty bins! I will keep those as there are still a few sections I want to go through first.

The past few weeks I have been decluttering my studio much to the dismay of my hoarder husband.  I have 4 empty bins that I intend to keep for now, they may go to salvation army later.

It feels so good to let go of the fabric. I was in love with rose fabric when I first started in 1989 and I bought the whole line with the intention to make something grand with it.  20+ years later, it  has not been touched, so last night I went through it and now that bin is only half full as opposed to bulging.  My room is clean, somewhat streamlined and I feel less pressured, frustrated and able to take a deep breath and find what I want easily.  A lot more easier than before!.  It may not look decluttered but part of it is that it is a small room with a  huge built into the room table that takes up a lot of space and I have wall to wall cubby holes and  2 wire racks that have bins of fabric.  But not as many bins as before!

My closet is a lot better than before and that is where I store my batting, stabilizer, extra bags, envelopes for my other groups, etc.

A little early from guild meeting.  I am happy to say that out of 8 bags, I only came home with two and I didn’t buy any tickets or win anything.  Although, hubby came home with a large bag of scraps that I wanted to give away.  Oh well, at least he didn’t win the spinning wheel!  

I will have 2 more flings later today.  The two bags that came home will be dropped off at Salvation Army later along with some clothes and the post office is doing a food drive so I will be donating a couple of bags of canned food.  Our post lady will pick it up when she drops our mail off.  It will be nice to give to someone who needs it and I have more than enough here.

First off, I need some coffee.  I am dog tired from last night and stiff all over.  I helped set up the bags and goodies, sold tickets and resisted temptation, all the fabric looked the same and I didn’t even browse.  In fact, I bought tickets and gave them to friends to use.  That was my donation.  Then, I get to make my DGD’s birthday gift, that is if I can figure out the pattern.  It is a fun little purse with a butterfly on the front done entirely on the embroidery machine.  If not, I will take her out shopping for something else.  There is a video but no sound or captions and my machine is having issues with the pattern reading portion.  Maybe I was too tired to figure it out earlier this week, it has been a little stressful lately.