Craft Room Reset

If you are anything like me, you have all the projects going on simultaneously. My current projects include:

• a sock I started back at the library crafting group back in May, which I just started working on again

• the quilt - it's my very first quilt and I have been reading lots of library books about quilting because I'm stuck on putting it all together. I have the backing, the batting, and a completed quilt top. I know how I plan to bind it and that I'm going to tie it by hand just like my great-grandmother used to.

• a bag - I had some squares left over from the quilt and am putting those together to make a bag

• Warm Up America squares - so many squares! I have been crocheting these and throwing them in a box to assemble later. "Later" is just about here because the box is nearing full and the allotted yarn supply is dwindling. Are the ends woven in? Have you even met me? Of course the ends are not woven in, so that's another task in itself.

I also have ordered rings and such to make keychains and lanyards, so I put those away. I went through my little wastebasket to retrieve any useable fabric scraps and added those to the bits of fabric box. I also got a hera marker to try out because I read about it in some of the books from the library.

Oh! I also read a few blogs and at least one book where folks suggested these Frixion pens. I haven't tested it yet, but according to experts, this ink disappears with the heat of an iron. I haven't tried that yet, but they are complete erasable with a regular eraser.

Pilot Frixion pens - according to the experts, the ink is erased from fabric with the heat from an iron

I put away my yarn from the Southern Comforts Fiber Market. We've been to Michael's a couple times and our purchases (lots of yarn for my kid's amigurumi projects) have been still sitting in the bags. I did a quick re-arranging of yarn on our shelves, put away some thrifted fabric, then stopped to pet the cat. She and I are sharing this room - well, she lets me keep my stuff in the room and supervises my work.

Behold this majestic creature! When Lulu isn't supervising me, she enjoys sitting outside.

I cleaned off my desk of all the bits and bobs that have accumulated from various projects. I also put away a couple long-sleeved shirts I got from Goodwill. They are perfectly nice other than they have holes in the body and one has a couple tiny holes in the sleeve that I plan to do some visible mending to keep them out of the landfill.

Now that I have everything put away, I can go to goodwill to look for more fabric, right?