The Sewing Room Closet

I started this post last year when I was working on cleaning out my sewing room closet. I just realized that I had never posted it, so as doign so now.

There is a closet in my sewing room that I have not entered in, oh about ten years. It is crammed full of things and I finally started to empty it and clear it out.  It was scary to open the door as I was not sure what might fall out on me.
A few pieces of fabric fell out, but nothing heavy.  As I started pulling things out I found some things I had been looking for, and lots of other interesting discoveries.

There was a ton of fleece in the closet, in a variety of colors.  Now I know by the size of some pieces that they were bought to make hats, but other pieces I am not sure why I bought.  For the moment they are piled in the living room, waiting for me to decide what to do with them.

I discovered lots of fabric, some that I am giving away, and some that I am keeping, as well as some I wonder what I was thinking when I bought it.  There were lots of cottons, which I use for quilting and shirting fabrics that at some point I must have bought to make shirts, or something. I also discovered a couple of UFQs, one that I have been looking all over for. I started this when my husband was the the technology coordinator at Benny Benson Secondary School. How it ended up in the closet is beyond me, because I was not storing handwork there then, nor do I store it there now.

My thought at the time was it would be a nice wall hanging for his classroom. Now he teaches art, but he still uses computers as he teaches computer graphics class, so I will finish it for his birthday or Christmas. There is still a lot of hand work to be done on it. I have to finish the applique and do the embroidery everywhere you see blue lines.

I also discovered a set of blocks from a swap where my fabric that I sent out was this beautiful Hoffman.  The blocks are all together and I picked up a blue for sashing and binding last night, so will get this one put together at some point in the near future. I have since finished the quilt and am auditioning backing fabric.

I found tons of interesting things in my closed.  I am still working on many of them but one day in the future I plan to have all my UFQs done. This is not to say that I will not be making more UFQs as time goes on, but all the ones from prior to 2013 will be done or passed on to someone who will love them.