Winter Blues & Sew Much More!

Big quilts with many small blocks take a long time to make.

But they are like potato chips, and when they start coming together and you see how your fabrics are playing  and fitting into what your vision for them was as you were planning and preparing - it's a wonderful feeling!

 Winter Blues workshop day 2 commenced at noon, after a delicious brunch and everyone eager to dive in.

And as I was walking around the Quilting Quarters, I also saw the OTHER projects that were being worked on in between class times.

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Winter Blues Workshop, Day 1!

I am loving the relaxing pace of our Winter Blues workshop with the September Quiltvillians!

They are on retreat.  They want to relax, sleep in a bit after sewing into the wee small hours.

I get it!  This is their vacation - they shouldn't have to deal with an early class start time.

So the plan?  Brunch at 10:30am.  Class begins at NOON!

And here we are for our 3pm beverages and nibbles on the porch in the afternoon.

Because it's retreat.

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Making Progress!

This might look crazy - but I often use the table side of myj long arm as a sorting station - draping the rails with strips that need to be filed away back into the scrap user's system.

The new system storage is working SO well!  I'm thrilled with the space - I even wrote on the labels as to which color is in each bin.

All of these strips are sorted by color family and size and it didn't take long before:

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Bye Bye, Big Blue Pile!

Reorganizing the studio - what a chore!

What an eye opening round of in-my-face rediscovery!

I have always joked that my method of organizing is just to move piles from one flat surface to another to clear a space.

But eventually things get to a point where something really has to be done.

Let's face it.  Creativity is messy and we do our best to clean it up.  But when the mess is actually halting our creative time, it's time to dig deeper and make things better.

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