Quilt Room Re-org

For years I've simply folded my fabrics all the same and then stacked it, but the problem is I would always need the fabric halfway down the stack, and it would just be a big mess to get it out and try to restack everything.  So, when I saw this picture on Pinterest that led me to this blog post about how to store your fabric storage, and then I also saw it on Threads Magazine's website. All that has to be done is to buy comic book storage boards, and then fold and wrap your fabric around them.

I've been working on this project for a few days now...But the embarrassing part is that I had to buy 500 (!!!) comic book storage boards to wrap all of my stash.  Apparently, I've been collecting fabric for a while.  I'll take a picture when it's all completed!  Hopefully, when I need a fabric, it will be much easier to get it out from the storage area from now on!

Sew Expo

I went to the Sewing Expo at the Puyallup Fairgrounds this last weekend, and had a GREAT time with my friends Susie and KK.  We were all in a clothing-making buying mood, and I got some great pieces for a jacket and a couple of shirts, plus a darling dress pattern, and two new pairs of scissors.

Here's the story on the scissors:  I had two little snips that lived by my sewing machine, BUT then I cleaned up one day, and got all organized probably, and do you think I can find those little snips???  NO!  I'm sure they're in the proverbial "safe place".  But still -- it's very frustrating...so, I bought two NEW small pairs of scissors to live by my sewing machine, and I'm betting that Murphy's Law will kick in very soon and the other two pairs of scissors will magically materialize out of thin air.  Or a storage bin.  And then I'll have a veritable treasure trove of wonderful little pairs of scissors.

I've always wanted some dainty, gold-handled, downright fancy scissors, but for some reason, I've never bought myself any...I have a very well-used pair of silver Gingher scissors, which are shiny, but they're so...well...utilitarian!  So when the one pair of dainty-gold-goodness was under-budget, I decided I 'needed' two pairs of dainty-gold-goodness.

Here they are.  Aren't they pretty??

When the Scissor Man put them in the bag, he said to be careful -- two such pretty scissors were libel to get up to mischief in the bag.  I thought this was very charming -- he said it with such a twinkle in his eye.  He was a very nice and funny man.  But he's right -- they look like they're straight out of the Victorian Era, and if I remember my history correctly, for all their buttoned up appearances, those Victorians liked to party...

OK, I'm going to go do some sewing and use my fancy-dancy new scissors...