I just found a new acronym (is taht spelled right?) that we can use. I'll tell you, this totally described many of my projects. The acronym is PIGS -- Projects in Grocery Sacks. How may of you have PIGS too? Now come on, be honest. We're all friends here!! :)
Zo
Okay, I confess. I have 25 years worth of projects in sacks, boxes and bins. Now if I live another 25 years I MAY get a couple done. Too many ideas, not enough time!! SueB
Nope. None. All of my project are 1) in plastic bins, or 2) on my sewing table or ironing board. No grocery sacks for me! LOL!
I like that one!
Since I almost never buy all the fabric at once for specific projects, it all goes into stash. So no PIGS here. Anyway, groceries don't come in sacks. I use a wicker shopping basket. Roberta in D
Since my ironing board is in the utility room, it is usually a quilt top that I have some delusion about working on, but not enough delusions to actually have it near a sewing machine. :)
(You read it here first, folks. I don't have enough delusions! *grin*)
Hahaha .. PIGS gone SOUR... Id love to do a sour swap. That could be quite interesting. What makes a quilt go sour for you? Diana
Oh Shelly, you had to go and bring other projects into this, didn't you??!??
Larisa, who can th> Do we have to?LOL And are we counting just quilts in progress or do wehave
Cool Acronym!!! That use dto apply to me as well, but not since we redid everything in the laundry room....it's too pretty now to let things pile up in it (not counting the ironing, but that is tucked away from plain sight).
Larisa
Kathy Applebaum wrote:
Well-there's that Rapunzel x-stitch (very large and complicated)that's in it's frame about 60% done.I have another x-stitch just about done that I don't want to work on.A pattern and fabric for a tuxedo shirt in a bag -not cut out.
Shelly-did I mention the hamper of finished tops tht will get done someday?
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I've got 2 pigs and about 4 that have escaped from the sack!
Shawn
-- mslibra
I don't have enough toes and fingers to count them all.
zo
Mrf!????!
--pig
All of my P.I.G.S. are about to get a new sty. DS grew up and moved away, and now the PIGS can roam at will in their new 20'x16' pen. Yippee!!!
The room has an 8' picture window, too. I'm in the process of reorganizing the place with a 10' craft table, a 6' oak table, 3 large shelving units, 4 of those rolling stackable plastic bin thingies with drawers, a microwave, TV (if DH can get the cable in there), an oscillating fan. tea pot, 4'x6' design wall, and a couple of pet beds for the critters. Eventually I will have access to the room's double wide, double deep sliding door closet ( I guess it was too much to actually expect DS to take ALL of his stuff, he's in a studio appt.) But some day I'll be able to lock away some of those naughty P.I.G.S. I get annoyed with.
I'm so excited, I can't stand it. I won't have to share the room with anyone! Even the ironing board will never have to be put away again.
Denise in NH
Youre the best Piggy a quilter can have! Diana
Congratulations! If no TV cable, why not just TV/VCR? You'll be watching only quilting tapes in there. Right?
Oooh, I is greeneyed with jealousy! Here I have a 3-br house all to self (& QI, of course), and still need more room.
-- Jean S
Congratulations! There's nothing like a room of your very own. My advice: it's not truly your own until you get control of that useful closet! DS may not have much space now, but you will find that his need for storage only increases over time. Even if his next place is twice as big as the current one, he won't have any room for that stuff. Work it any way you see fit, but get his stuff out of that closet.
Using our move to another country as a good motivator, I told the DDs to put whatever they wanted to keep into designated boxes and I would ship it to them. Anything not sorted before the deadline would be tossed. So now we have no stuff that belongs to someone else. The truth is, 90% of left-behind kids' stuff is useless, they forgot they even had it, but they just don't want the bother of sorting. Roberta in D
Actually it is a combo TV/VCR and I never thought of quilting tapes. I guess I could tape our twice daily Alex Anderson shows and have a marathon. My friend bases her work hours around Alex's shows. I could save her the hassle. Or I could go to the library and pick up all of those chick flix movies DH isn't interested in and watch them while in my quilt room, or some 'How To' tapes and learn something new like Kickboxing (don't laugh, DS is a second degree black-belt in Tae Kwon Do and used to kickbox) or learn photography, or stamping, or cooking, or gardening, or, or, or, Crap, if I learn all that, I'll never find time to quilt, which is why I made this room to begin with.
Thanks for the suggestion, I definitely will look into tapes. I tape 3 soaps a day, does that count?
Denise in NH
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