Saturday, January 8, 2022

No, I’m not anxiously awaiting anything – well maybe an end to this winter weather. Sorting out my pins and needles was the decluttering task for the day. If you had asked I would have said nothing needed to be changed but as I was “just making sure” I found a few things I could switch up and a few other things that I could part with.

In the half-hour I allotted to the task I also cleared out a drawer full of paper. When I worked at the Red Cross it drove me crazy that all the notepaper was scraps of used paper that someone had cut up and stapled together into a pad. I’ve noticed lately that I’m guilty of that as well so today I cleared it all out. I had unused tickets from Home Routes and Pat Buckna Presents concerts, and I had notepaper that had been sent to me by various charities (still with the Wilson name) so they all went into the recycle bin. The scraps of paper I was saving for making notes on also went into the bin and I have three clean pads of notepaper on my desk shelf.

When I’m printing pattern directions (that I don’t want or need to keep) I will often use the back side of a piece of paper that has already gone through the printer. I think this is a good way to save on purchasing paper so I left that shelf as it is.

Before I started on my decluttering tasks I cut out fabric for another card. I also made my long-awaited trip to the quilt shop to get backing for a quilt that I’ll be working on this month. When I chatted with Stacia and Deloise about our upcoming sewing project they assured me it wasn’t a “work ’til you finish it” deal so I also bought fabric for the additional project I’ll work on during our session.

And finally this afternoon I’ve cut out fabric for a set of placemats using the Guild Challenge fabric. In spite of my decluttering and rearranging I’m running out of space to store these prepped projects.