When One Good Clean Deserves Another!

Is it Monday already?

It was just Saturday when I went through that whole lovely discovery of finding that not just one, but two cans of diet coke had frozen solid and exploded in the mini fridge at my QPO Studio.

What a mess….

But do you know what cleaning up a mess, which leads to cleaning out a whole area can also lead to?

Before I knew it, Saturday was taken over by gutting out and cleaning up my QPO office!

I went through years of files and old paperwork, pitching SO much redunant stuff.

I found things that had been missing or misplaced for YEARS.

And you know what? It feels so much better. So much lighter. Not so stifling.

This is the big school teacher desk that Hubster Dave found on Facebook Marketplace for me when we first acquired the building with the purchase of the inn.

Yes, the door had to come off its hinges to get it through the doorway, and we both agree – when we sell this place, the desk is STAYING. LOL!

I have the extra large monitor for quilt designing.

And once the office was clean, I was able to get caught up on procrastinated end of the year paperwork and deskwork and I feel like I am moving into the new year feeling a bit more at peace with myself.

I spent a LOT of time working on this!

And there will be a lot more of this –

I tend to be an assembly line sewist. I will work on one thing until that thing is done, and then move on to the next step rather than complete one unit at a time.

It helps minimize mess for one thing, and I only need to keep one process on my mind at a time.

Aqua is the next color up again, to finish filling the paper foundations.

It’s not likely that I will be back into stitching with the aqua strings before I leave for Australia, but they will be here waiting for when I get back.

That mess thing? well…at least it is with just one color family at a time!

For those asking about my machine table: It’s a Janome table Hubster Dave retrofitted for my Juki. He had to put a platform in the bottom to raise the machine, and drill out the hole where the knee lift goes. (Not a pretty hole but it works.)

This is something that IS coming with me to Australia. Not the big assembly stuff, but I’m kicking around with the idea of just taking the neutrals to make the neutral fill in “triangles” that go at the top/bottom/sides. It would minimize the different colors I’d need to take, and wouldn’t overload my suitcase. Each one takes a couple of hours to stitch.

Those plane flights are going to be LONG.

The triangle units are kind of boring to stitch, no exciting colors or patterns happening there, but once they are done I can cross those off of my list. Do you work this way, too?

Quilting travel strategies!

Which reminds me….I need to get the BLOOM kits made for my travelers this week. The PDF pattern will release in February for everyone else.

Huka Falls will be releasing Mid-January while I am in Australia – it’s on my list of things to get that photography done today and dig into getting that pattern ready.

Already the to-do list is getting much longer than I want it to be.

Morning sunrise.

It was actually much more orange-red, more vibrant than a photo can show. I sat behind the sliding glass door between the dining area and the front porch and just watched it evolve rom orange to red to pink….and then, just like that it was gone.

We have two days left in 2024. What will you do with them?