My mother is spending more and more time at our house. We had created a cozy bedroom set aside just for her but it lacked a TV. I don't want her to think she must just sit in her room and watch TV but I know she likes to watch TV before she falls asleep at night. As part of her Christmas present my husband spent an entire Saturday snaking a TV cable through the walls to her room.
Now where to put the TV? The perfect place was behind the doors of the chest-on-chest but those shelves were filled with my UFO's! Last night as we were watching TV in the family room I was looking at all the old VCR tapes stored in the entertainment center realizing that we would never look at 90% of those old tapes. Today I cleared the entertainment center and repositioned the table games to the area formerly housing obsolete tapes. A few of the games were sent home with my son since they were more his type of game than ours. This left two shelves empty just waiting for my UFO's to live behind the doors of the lower half of the entertainment center. Now the chest-on-chest holds the TV in Mom's room. There was still enough space to store folded seasonal quilts on the shelf above her small TV.
What I am calling "UFO's" are really charity quilts waiting to be needed. Last year while cleaning my studio, when I ran across a UFO or half finished class sample I would calculate what it would take to create a roughly 53" by 72" HUG quilt. All the necessary finished blocks, extra fabrics and EQ pattern were packaged in a jumbo plastic bag and placed in the chest-on-chest. The plan is to gradually finish these quilts and have them on hand for charity giving. This sounded like such a good idea but I haven't had a minute to work on any of those quilts in the many months they have been stored. Maybe this winter I will start working on them.
Susan