UFOs

Earlier this fall everything had to come out of my sewing room while we replaced the floors. I took that as an opportunity to clean and sort. I like the layout of the room a lot better, but I didn't get rid of enough stuff so that everything has its spot. That's why you see a lot of things sitting in the floor - there's nowhere else for it to go!

Far left: my quilting/sewing machine, cutting table (piled with stuff and batting, backings, and one tub of fabric stored underneath), the white container holds sewing notions and quilts of valor fabric and patterns, china cabinet with completed quilts, projects in process shelving.  Not show is 2nd shelving, my serger, and a  HUGE wooden storage cabinet. Maybe in a few months I'll have 360 pictures of a cleaner room! Maybe.

This is project pile #2. All the containers inside the cubbies have been started  to the point pieces have been cut out or actual piecing has begun. The storage containers on top of the shelves are pieces sorted by color for a large project and pieces cut according to size.  The basket and bucket contain patterns and the pile in the front is fabric that I pulled out of the closet in search of something and decided not to put it back in. My goal is that it will be used up by the end of the year. :)

Project pile #1 is much neater and smaller. It's under the ironing board I made earlier this year. The projects on the bottom shelf are quilt tops closest to completion. The top shelf is an assortment of projects like pile #1. I quit counting the number of started projects I found when I begin putting things back in the room. It was simply too startling. The cardboard box is remnants from costume fabrics that I've not decided what to do with just yet.

There's also 10 quilt tops hanging in the closet waiting to be quilted. My goal for this year is that anything hanging up in January will be either in the storage closet or gifted by December. My unrealistic goal is that my project piles will be hanging in the closet (if not already quilted) by then as well, with a more reasonable amount of started projects in their place (meaning some emptied fabric containers).

Several years ago a group of us bloggers had project goals that we made the beginning of every month. At the end of the year I found I had accomplished quite a few things (and had some things not finished but a good dent put in them as well), but I also found it was a bit of stress having a public deadline hanging over my head for something that was not essential.

But I'm hoping that by writing everything down for me to see and remember, I'll also focus on smaller tasks and finishing things I start instead of literally running around like a chicken with its head pulled off. (If you've never seen that, they truly flop about all over the place, in every direction, the most spastic of ways.)

I'm glad 2019 is over. And I'm hoping to be just a tad bit organized for 2020. :)