My Current Sewing Space

Thanks to everyone that stopped by on the Holiday Lane Blog Hop and left me such nice comments!  

I love reading what you have to say and it is the best form of encouragement!

I am in the process of moving my current sewing space from the middle of my living room 

to the recently vacated upstairs bedroom. 

 It has been an uphill battle with my hubby as he wanted to make it into a "guest" room. 

 We have not had overnight guests in the entire time we have been married, almost 30 years! 

 So I told him I didn't think that was a good plan. 

 Then there is a twin bed and 2 dressers in there.  

He wanted to keep the bed and use the dressers and the closet for rotating his clothes by season.  

Nope, not going to happen. 

 It will just become a crap hole.  

You know it will. 

 I know it will and now he knows it will. 

 So, DD1, who just recently moved out, took the bed, but left the trundle portion.  

**Sigh**

 I am going to let him keep that until after Christmas 

so that when DD2 comes home she will have a bed.  

After that it's a blow up mattress baby!  

I decided to keep the dressers, but I need to empty them out so I can use them for storage. 

 I also cleared out the closet. 

 I have steam cleaned most of the carpet

 just have one small spot to do now that one of the dressers is moved to it's new place in the room.  

I know you are dying to see my current messy room so here you go.

My sewing space in all it's messy glory!

This weekend I need to move all this stuff to it's new home and reclaim my living room!

I have sooooo much more fabric and stuff in bins in the basement too.  

 I am going to let you in on my plan for that stuff. 

 I am going to have my big, strong son carry some of the bins to the new sewing room.

 He will have to do this several times!

There are a LOT of bins.

 I will go through said bins and sort out stuff I want to keep.  

The stuff I don't want/need anymore will go through a process.  

First I will be listing it for sale here on my blog every week 

(and this will probably go on for many months).  

It's true, I am a fabric horder! 

You probably already suspected but now I am out of the basement!

 I think I will choose a day of the week and 

do it on the same day every week until I finish going through the bins.  

What doesn't sell in a week will go over to my ETSY shop for a few months. 

 Whatever doesn't sell there will get listed as destash/swap or donated.  

This way I will have what I want to work with and clear out the clutter. 

 Will you guys hold me to this plan please?  

LOL 

 I have been carrying the bolts of fabric I have upstairs first.

This is the first stack to go to the new room!

(yes there are more)

I plan to get several tall book cases to put my fabric into so I can see it. 

 I am hoping that will be a huge inspiration to my sewing too. 

 How have you organized your sewing space? 

 Any tips on things to do or probably more importantly not to do?

  I would be eternally greatful!

I have put the following (in yardage) up for sale in my ETSY shop if anyone is interested.

Oh rest assured I am keeping some too!  

I just thought I would share the wealth!!

Last but not least I want to let you know that I have joined Pinterest.   

If you are there too, stop by, follow me and let me know what you think of my "pins". 

 It is taking me a long time to learn new things but I am getting there. 

 I learned how to use Google Drive the other day and was pretty proud of myself!

Now I know how to host a PDF using it.

All this moving makes me want to take a nap.

No rest for the wicked!!! 

tee hee

OK, send me those suggestions and I will have a giveaway to the person's suggestion I like the best!

Now, aren't you glad you read all the way to the end?

Please make sure I can contact you in case you are the lucky winner.

If there are more than one suggestions I love there may be a second winner.

That one will be a surprise!

~XOP~

I'll let you know next Friday (December 7th)

What I Have Been Up To Recently

I have managed to finish 2 more blocks.  One is for the second time around in the Jellyroll QAL and the other one is for the Layer Cake QAL.  I didn't particularly car for the block 11 in the LCQAL so I decided to look for a substitute block.  We have a basket and a flower and so this is what I came up with for my block 11.  I'd like to know what you think of it.  I used some Presencia perle cotton size 12 for the embroidery.  It is the first time I have worked with this thread.  I had to use a much larger needle than I usually use for embroidery, and even

I found the block pattern on the Quilter's Cache website.  If you have not discovered them yet you should go and take a look.  Their patterns are great!

For the Jelly roll QAL block, I loved making this block the first time and loved it just as much the second time.  I am super pleased with how the block came out too.  It was so easy and looks so great!


 I joined a group on Flickr that swaps designer fabrics.  I needed some Heather Ross fabric for a block I am making for another group I am in and I didn't happen to have any.  So a new friend of mine on Flickr sent me these in the mail.  Wasn't that sweet of her?


I really need to work on the two HR blocks so I may not go to quilting tomorrow and go instead to QQ's house since she needs to do the same 2 blocks for the same 2 projects.  Then I could finish laying out the tumbler quilt (and maybe take some photos of that too).  I would like to work on my Dreamy Stars and finish that top too, if not this week, then maybe this weekend.  We only have 1 more block to go in the LCQAL and then I can begin putting those 2 quilts together.  I need one of them by the end of May!  Sooo much to do.

I hope you enjoyed the post about making buttons for your blog that I posted yesterday.  I was able to do the whole thing using Flickr instead of Photobucket too just in case some of you would rather use your Flickr account.  I know that's what I will be using in the future.

I still have 3 things available for purchase from 2 days ago.  The patterns, the brown fabrics and the fabric and pattern, and bag sides for May, all in Thimbleberries fabric.  If you are interested let me know.   Well, back to work.  Have a great Tuesday and we'll talk soon.  Leave me a comment and let me know what you are up to too.  ~XOP~

Thimbleberries 2004 BOM

Are you a fan of Thimbleberries? I like a lot of her things but I just know that I will never get around to doing this. I have the Jan-October blocks/patterns/fabric kits. I am missing the project for January as I did that and gave it away, but the block fabric is still there. I would like to sell the whole lot for $200 plus shipping if anyone is interested.

This shows the Jan-June projects



This one shows the July-December projects


This shows the quilt


You can see some of the bags of the blocks and projects too in the background. I hope someone out there loves these and would love to own them too. Please send me an email if you are interested.

mamaspark@gmail.com

More De Stashing

I thought I would finish listing what I have gone through so far so here goes
One and a half yards of this adorable goose fabric. $3 plus shipping
SOLD

Assorted greens totaling 3 plus yards $6 plus shipping
SOLD

Six yards assorted green batiks $12 plus shipping
SOLD

This pretty pointsetta fabric really needs a new home, there is about 60" x 42" width $3 plus shipping


I made some Christmas stockings with this homespun. 64" by 42" width, $3 plus shipping

Purple batik 3 and a half yards $7 plus shipping
SOLD
I know this looks blue but it is really purple stars, ~2 2/3 yards $5 plus shipping

Green thirties fabric ~48" by 42 width $3 plus shipping

More thirties fabric ~60" by 42" width $3 plus shipping

That's all for now so again, thanks for looking and let me know if you are interested in anything.

De-Stashing. Fabric for sale

OK, I had to bring stuff (fabric mostly) up from the basement to clear out a spot for the guy to fix the A/C last week. I thought I should go through it and see if there was anything I could part with and guess what? There is! I am going to list it here and if you are interested please email me at
mamaspark@gmail.com

Here goes:
Now these first few things are not fabric alone, they are pot holderish kind of things. I got them from my mom's house after she passed away so I know they are quite old, older than me, which is older than dirt. They are about 6' x8" approximately. $5 for each set plus shipping.
ELEPHANTS ARE SOLD
PIGS ARE SOLD

Now on to some wool (blends maybe?, not sure)
Tan and navy are 46" x 60" and the blue check is 44" x 68" So that's approximately 4 yards. $8 for the lot plus shipping

Corduroy now who doesn't love that?? I bought this when my kids were little (they are 19-25 now) and you just can't find cute stuff like this anymore. I have no grandchildren and probably won't for a long time so if you are interested let me know.
Both pieces are 27" x 60". $5.00 plus shipping.

Here are the girl prints the bunny one is 40" x 60" and the flower one is 60" x 60"
$10 plus shipping .

This one is like a cotton twill but softer. Adorable little dinos. There is about a yard and a half here.$3 plus shipping

Yard and a half of the fairies $3 plus shipping

Six one yard pieces $12 plus shipping

Five half yard pieces $5 plus shipping
SOLD
Eight quarter yd or FQ pieces $4 plus shipping The third one from the left came from France!

40 6.5" squares $2 plus shipping
SOLD

I have some more to list but will do so in another post. Please let me know if you are interested and we will work it out. I appreciate your taking time to look.