The closest I got to blue this week is “feelings”, some blue wool strips, and a couple of blue totes!
I’m not really sad, just melancholy! So I decided to clean out the storage space underneath the stairs. That particular place is the “behind closed doors” part of the sewing room. It’s been awhile since I moved everything. And let’s face it! I’ll never really get into scrapbooking, or crocheting wool strips into a rug!
My mother left this project. It's 1/2" strips of wool. Gray, red, blue, and a plaid. They are gathered on a long needle then crocheted together with rug warp string. Interesting, pretty and soft. But I'll never finish it.
Then there was a box of wool skirts that had been taken apart and washed. Conceivably mean to be stripped into more rug making supplies. All will go in the trash.
I found a blue tote of photos! I am sorting these into Photo Boxes from Joann's. One for each kid and grandkid.
Kids don't keep photos anymore, do they? Certainly not my grandchildren, in their late 20's and early 30's. I mean they have pictures of their own families, but they don't want pictures of their mom's 6th birthday party! Or the Christmas morning snapshots when they were 10!
And then there is the blue tote of scrap booking supplies. Colored paper, a scrapbook, sheetprotectors and even more paper memorabilia. Look at that caricature of me in 2000.
It was drawn by a visiting artist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Zion, Illinois, the day before my mastectomy! I should probably keep that. But the rest....??? I'm such a saver, thus my fabric stash, the stash of bias tape I have not even used up. The tee shirts waiting to be made into a quilt........it goes on and on.
See ,I told you I was blue....
So forward!!!!!
Linking to Angela's So Scrappy Saturday post. And by next Saturday we will have a new color to think about, a new goal to set, and I will have my sewing room back to usable.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy
I havent started my blue blocks that I need for my project I've been busy on others! I know I should keep up and this is the first time in a over a year that I haven't! I will get to it. I hope your "blues" do not last long - it is hard to stay cheerful through all of this!
ReplyDeleteI agree - melancholy is the word for our feelings some days. Good for you for doing some cleaning and sorting! Clearing out and getting rid of unwanted craft projects is never a bad idea!
ReplyDeleteSometimes we need to deal with other bits of BLUE. Perhaps, there will be more sewing next week!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Throw away deconstructed wool skirts!!! Surely someone in your guild would like them.
ReplyDeleteOh my! Just the thought of you, Judy, cleaning out the storage space made me feel melancholy! Good thing you're moving that stuff on down the line. That feels good. My mom braided wool rugs. She was loved it. But I don't love doing that. So I understand. And the photos. Yes, keep moving everything forward. Then get back to some happy quilting!!!
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