I worked on my Christmas figs blocks this past week. I had an appointment one morning and was trying to finish before I left. Instead of finishing quickly, I made more work for myself. I’m still not too sure how this happened, I use the webbing method to lay out my blocks. With these large blocks, it’s very easy to see if one is turned or out of place.
Once I got home again I set it right and started to appliqué the ovals on to the green squares.
Two weeks ago we had our house appraised for a ReFi. The appraiser came by and took lots of pictures. We got our copy a few days ago, I glanced through it, and most of the pictures looked okay, black and white, my house wasn’t too messy, there were no photo bombing pets. No other articles present that one wouldn’t want saved for posterity in the pictures. But the second bedroom photo, ugh. My sewing room. It looked like a, well, a hoarders lair. It’s not a big room, maybe 14 x 14, with a closet on one side and a window on another. The two other walls have stacking drawers with fabric and my stuff in them. I use every square foot of that room, and usually there is a slight disarray of projects, fabrics, papers, books, thread, batting, the ironing board, the machines and my portable design wall. It was like seeing your favorite movie star without makeup. I began to think how I could better organize to keep the clutter at bay. Then I thought of my DS’s mostly empty closet. He is away at school, and doesn’t have much in it, in fact I have been using it to store some of my personal quilts. I decided that it would become my new yarn closet and then I could re-arrange my fabric closet to include some of the fabric that had been free ranging in my room. I worked on it this past weekend and I’m pretty happy with the results. I got rid of a bunch of cardboard boxes and some bags, sorted some scraps and rearranged some other piles. It’s a work in progress, but it feels good to have a bit more space with calm and orderly places for my eyes to rest.
It’s Monday again, so I’ll be linking up with Judy at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday.
Thanks for reading.
Touch of Grey 
Your block is beautiful; the appliqued shapes add so much to the bear paws! And you do not have a hoarder’s lair, for goodness’ sake. Everyone reading your blog has just as much piled up in her own sewing room as you do… But it does feel good to take stock of everything and reorganize once in awhile!