Ok, I know it is spring and everyone is enjoying the outdoors but a check for new RTCQ posts showed nothing since May 2! Can't be right.
I have enjoyed being outside as much as possible but also continue to de-clutter my house and studio in preparation for our move. We are downsizing from our five bedroom home of the last 26 years to a two bedroom townhouse. That means only the most import stuff should make the move. The townhouse has very nice studio space (what should be the family room) but there isn't as much storage as our present house. Since our sons have left home the fabric storage has spread into two bedroom closets.
I have spent the last three weeks handling everything in my studio and the afore mentioned closets deciding if I would really ever use each piece of fabric or finish a kit or UFO. Many boxes have been given to several different quilting charity groups plus kits and fabric to special friends. There is still enough left for several lifetimes of sewing.
Also discovered were a few completed quilt tops I don't remember making, three quilted but unbound quilts and many completed sets of blocks never assembled into tops. One large tub is now marked "Kits and UFO's to Finish First". That tub will stay in the studio while the house is on the market. The realtor didn't mind showing the space as a working studio but thought the clutter should be cleared. "After all," he said, "Potential buyers will need to walk through the room!" We already own the townhouse which is an hour away from our present home (and only ten minutes from the grandchildren!). Every week we take a car load from the studio to the townhouse. The next Saturday it isn't raining we will rent a small truck and take the shelving units plus a few things that will be placed in storage. Fortunately my son has a second floor above his garage that they currently do not use. I plan to store some family antiques and fabric tubs there. The tubs have been inventoried so I won't forget what is there.
We haven't actually put the For Sale sign in the front yard yet. The realtor suggested several updating tweaks which we have been addressing this spring. I am not looking forward to having the house on the market which will require keeping the house clean at all times for potential viewing. We were spoiled by selling our last house without putting it on the market.
Back to de-cluttering.
Susan