Last week, one of my g-neices emailed that she'd taken a free-motion quilting class and did I have any tips for her?? I told her that my biggest tip was that she should take possession of my pfaff 7550 instead of the old generic machine that was her mother's....next, I had to play the "if-I-were-a-7550-where-would-I-hide-game"!! I knew that it was in a safe place but the disorganized sewing room was hiding any signs of it. I gave up and decided that 'it would come to me' - hours later, I remembered that I had put the machine on the bottom shelf of my mostly unused sewing table rather than on the floor under the shelving units. I cleared space on the dining room table and assembled the 7550 to give it some oil and a whirl ..... smooth and raring to go! The only thing missing is one of the legs from the acrylic table so that isn't a big problem - one day, I am sure that I'll find the leg.
In pursuit of the leg, I have now totally undone any organization that once belonged in my sewing room - stash hasn't been touched yet - notions from dressmaking days have been put away - 20yo elastics have gone to the bin (how long is elastic supposed to stay supple anyway?) I had metres and metres of all colours, sizes and purposes - all gone now. I have found enough black and white velcro to make a wall that I could stick the cats to it when they misbehave! (I seem to remember such a thing years ago on Regis' show?). Three days have passed and I have done a little at a time...I really will have to make a new cover for the ironing board...yesterday, I was looking at the still empty space behind the door and thinking that a unit of a certain size could just fit in there without hindering the door opening....today, in the recycling room, stood a 5ft tall narrow unit (probably used to store video tapes) - I dragged it into the elevator and then into the sewing room - behind the door where it now sits waiting to be filled. I plan to take the small stacking bins that hold a myriad of sewing/quilting notions and store them there so that my corner wall unit can become the UFO's new home.
If my thoughts can materialize the perfectly sized storage unit - maybe, I should be thinking of the lottery?
jennellh