Thursday, January 20, 2022

I had quite a few decluttering tasks on my list today but I managed to get them all done. Well not done, but they each had thirty minutes of my time.

Somewhere about this time last year I made a note to myself to clean my filing cabinet. When I cleared my unfinished reminders at the end of the year I brought the task forward to today. I managed to get through a number of files and I’ve cleared up a lot of space in my filing cabinet. I’ll carry on and maybe I’ll be able to combine my two filing cabinets into one.

I was on a scrap mission today. I try to sort through my scraps every Thursday morning. My thirty minutes and more were over before I even got to the bottom of the scrap basket on my cutting table. I’m pretty good at cutting scraps to various useful sizes but I’m to the point that I don’t have enough space to store them all. My declutter guru would say I should be getting rid of them but I’m not quite ready for that yet. So I started two new bins, sorted by size and colour and I’ll see where that takes me.

And the decluttering task for the day was dealing with fabric. Again I went well over my thirty minutes but didn’t get through it all. I’m working on the fabric in my glass cabinet and I was able to sort quite a few fabrics into my fat quarter basket; larger pieces (but not yardage) went into various bins sorted by colour. By the time I was finished I really couldn’t say that I had achieved anything or made much progress.

I finished up my January piecing challenge this afternoon – four placemats made from the Guild Challenge fabric. I went ahead and sandwiched them but I’ve no idea when they might get quilted. They are due at the Guild’s year-end party but I’ll likely miss it (in favour of sewing in Panorama) so I don’t think there is any rush.

I haven’t made any cards for a couple of weeks so I got started back at that today. I’m still in plenty of time for February dates but I like to keep ahead of the calendar.