Busy time off

Well, this was suppose to be my vacation and I was going to clean out the garage but I decided to catch a cold instead so that sort of put a stop to being out in the cold garage. It's funny the left side of my nose and throat is running and sore. I'm fine then all of a sudden I get this tingling in my nose and it starts running. So instead of the garage, I worked on my quilt room.

I had a large cabinet in the corner but couldn't get to the fabric so decided to take it out and put in shelves. Plus I needed to go through the fabric again and get rid of the stuff I really wouldn't use. Still holding on to some of the stuff a friend gave me.

this is the before shot. The other stand under the moose had craft cabinet that held my rulers. Think it's on the sewing table for now. I was using it for a catch all so it was time to get rid of it too. I guess I'm in one of those purging moods. I just want things to look clean and neat and easy to get too.

this is the after shot. I put shelves up again; put my Halloween fabric on one shelf and Fall stuff on another; moved a small stand in to put my quilt books; moved the set of drawers from beside the TV to the stand for a better access. I also moved the little love seat we bought from a co-worker last summer from Ethan's room to here. Figured it would give me something a little more comfortable to sit on in the evenings when I was done sewing, plus a more comfortable place to sit when I'm doing hand work like bindings. It gets a little uncomfortable sitting in my office chair all the time. Of course, now I have company with the dogs and they are both jealous when I'm sitting with one beside me...not room for two dogs and me.. They do both get up there while I'm at the sewing table. The cabinet under the window has stuff one shelf for stuff like tape and fusible stuff. I also have my solids and then a bunch of misc. stuff.

This corner had a book shelf that had my quilt books, notebooks and all kinds of stuff but not quite wide enough shelves for fabric. So I decided to put shelves for the fabric. It's a couple feet off the floor for the plastic boxes to sit underneath. I went through all my fabric again and tried to place the different piles that I would use as often. I still need to go through the cabinet under the window and pull out other stuff so I'll have easy access to it too. My sewing table is still full of the extra little things that I'm still going through.

this is the TV corner. I put the little shelf next to the TV to hold stuff like the remotes, and movies I bring in to watch. It also holds whatever... I put the Christmas fabric up on the shelves since I won't be using any of it for a while. When I want either the Christmas or the Halloween or Fall stuff from the other shelves, I'll call Ben or Ethan to get it down. I'll have them down while working with them, then move them back.

I think I'll like this new arrangement a lot. I figure if I can see it more, I'll maybe use it more. I've also wanted the love seat up there since we got it but hadn't figured out how to do it. It will be a little tight when I put up my cutting table to pin quilts but I'll make do . We'll see how it all goes once I get another project going. Can't wait....