More Pics of Stash and Floss Drawers

October 26, 2005

Here are more pictures of my stash room. This is my closet, filled with modular shelving and as you can see there are books from one end to the other at the top of the closet here. I need to go through all the magazine files in this area and sort through what I want to keep and what I can put up for sale on the Legacy marketplace. Some of the designs I used to like don't appeal that much to me and I will probably not get to stitch some of what I have, so I am trying to weed out those items and make some space so I can arrange the stash I have. As it is I am out of growing room in this area and need to do 'something' to make some room for the things I want to keep.


Below is the picture of my floss drawers. I spent a lot of time cutting rods and drilling before I could insert the floss bags with tabs. I also made my own tags for the colors as it was difficult to write small enough to get them done by hand. I still have some fibers to add to my drawers, and may have to add another cabinet as well since I am also running out of space in the drawers. I've added the Vikki Clayton Silks to my collection and need to put all those fibers away in the drawers as well, so I am oging to be doing that once I get the patterns sorted out in my closet and cabinets. So there is quite a bit of work left to do.



Here is a picture of the 5 drawer lingerie cabinet that I transformed into my floss drawer. I drilled holes in them, added the rods, and hen put in all the tagson the bags, and the labels, filled them with the fibers and filed them in order in the drawer. It is quite a process, but worth the time invested. It also looks very neat, and ai LIke that too.

Well, when I get more of the work done in my Sash room I will show you the final pictures.

Winter will be an enjoyable time for me - working and playing in my Stash Room, and hopefully working on a few of those UFOs too.

Happy Fall Everyone!

Cathy

Stash room -- More Pics and Plans.

This is my second post about my Stash Room. I am so glad to ahve a room in the house that is just my own. It is wonderful having stash you can go play in, and a room to retreat to to stitch, read and I hope eventually to have a computer in this room as well, and a small desk so I can work in this room when I get the notion.

Here are the other pics of my stash room and the progress I am making with getting everything put away. it is qite a task!



This picture shows my other bookcase with more books -- and of course some of them are sampler books I have collected. Will be so glad to have this room set up the way I really want it to be.

I hope to add a desk right by the window, and a computer as well eventually. Right now all I have is a work table in the room but it will eventually be replaced and I can do all my church work here, as well as just computing remotely connected to my other computer in the area off the livingroom.

As you can see therea re 3 white frames on the wall that are also empty. I intend to stitch some designs from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine of leaves and herbs and place them in the whire frames. Sinec the room is painted in "Green Tea" the green leaves will look very nice in the white frames. I'm enjoying working on this room and making it truly my own creation.

Still having some difficulty loading pics, though not sure why. Will put them in another post as the system seems to like it best when you don't have too many pics in one post.

More soon....

Cathy

Pictures of my Stash Room "In Progress".....

October 25, 2005

Boy, this month is zooming by! of course, it doesn't help that I have had a sinus infection for nearly 3 weeks, and a flu, and my husband has been in the hospital for a week, unexpectedly, I might add. All that makes for a busy month and not much productivity.

But, I do have some temporary pics (not really finished with the work in my stash room) of my stash room -- and here are a few of them to give you an idea of what it will look like, and what I am busy with right now. I hope to have it all put together by the end of this month, or in another week -- other than the new furniture which I hope to get nearer to Christmas. I hope to buy a new chair, lamp, and a ottoman for the room, as well as a television with a DVD player so I can watch movies or hear music as I stitch away the Winter.

This first picture above is of the North wall in my Stash room. The frames are not filled yet, but will have Quaker Designs in them eventually. I put them on the wall both because they are out of the way there, and to be a constant reminder to me of the stitching I need to fulfill to get them all filled with designs. A great way to be nagged 'silently' .

This is a picture of the bookcase in my Stash Room -- there are two of them, and I will post the second one later in this blog. They hold my books, some needlework books, though most of my needlework books are on the top shelf of my closet, which you will also see in a moment. It has helped me organize my books to some degree, though I have many more containers of books in the garage at the moment. What I really need is an additional room, preferrably a study added to my house . IN this photo you can see two of my floss cabinets that I put together to hold all my flosses. They are in the File a Floss type bags that have little "pendaflex" type tabs that can be hung on metal rods. I added the metal rods to my cabinets, and then all the little tabs with floss bags. These two cabinets with 5 drawers contain my DMC, Anchor, Sampler Thread, Weeks Dye Works, and Olde Willow Threads. I have two other cabinets that hold my Silks and perle cottons. It makes a great way to keep all your stash in place, and much easier to find a particualr floss when you need it.




This is a picture of my cabinets on the North wall -- there are two - 2 door cabinets; They are filled with all sorts of books and tapes, and magazine files with charts and more charts and some kits, and miscellaneous needlework gadgets.
The doors are wonderful as they hide all my 'stuff', and it makes the whole room look neater .

The following picture is of the baskets I filled with my projects. The larger basket is filled with UFOs of all kinds, from previous years, and the interesting thing is I love them

all, so they will all eventually be stitched on and finished. The second smaller basket is filled with kitted projects, and things I am looking forward to stitching on in 2006 and beyond most likely . These are wonderful pieces, and oh how I wished I had more time for stitching so I could get to them all sooner.

This is my second basket of UFOs, but more recently abandoned for other projects. At the moment I am working on the Quaker Huswife as a SAL project, the Marquior Sampler which I am down to the last 4 squares of 9, And They Sinned, which is still on the first page; Hannah Pepper which is still on the first section from the Fine Lines magazine and the borders. I am also finishing up two UFOs which are Heart in Hand's Bless You. I have the frame for this one and will complete the finishing and get it into the frame when I am done with it this week. I am also working on an old UFO which is Eileen Bennett's Rockhome sampler. I started this maybe 2 years or so ago and am down to the last band on this one. Will get that finished but it has to be professionally framed, so won't be on the walls right away. I'm glad to be finishing a few things though as I hve not had a lot of productive stitching time this year, and certainly not enough finishes as yet. But there are still 2 months in the year and I hope to finish the Marquior Sampler, and the Quaker Huswife front panel of stitching at least by the end of the year. There are some gorgeous works in progress in that brown basket, including a Sampler in a Year by Linda Driskell, which is a drawn thread project; Lily and Laurel by The Heart's Content which I intend to finish as a memorial sampler for my Mom Rosalie, who was also called Lily. I'll make a list of all my UFOs and post them here for you to view before long. I really do want to get to these projects and finish them, though I think it may take me several years to get to them all. But I will enjoy the process of working on each one I"m sure and that makes it enjoyable 'work'.

It seems I am having a little difficulty loading my pics tonight, so I'll try adding them in another post. Yes, there are more, and more stash as well, so check out the next post .

Have a great day today too!

Cathy C

My Stash Room

HI all,
Well, I have been spending a good deal of time today cleaning and organizing my stash room. Since we put in the carpet, I have had stacks of patterns, kits, and UFOs (Unfinished Objects -- meaning unfinished stitching projects) in the room, but have not had a chance to get in there to organize all of it in the allotted space. I did add two bookcases in my stash room which hold my books -- both needlework and other Christian books I have collected. I also have two large 70" x 32" cabinets that are filled with Christian tapes and more of my cross stitch charts and kits.

Today I managed to sort through all the things that were in the room except for a few stacks of patterns which I will work on tomorrow. For now, I have sorted all my UFOs into one basket (a fairly large one), and all my new kits or kitted projects into another basket. There was one basket that I had already sorted and it has more of my Works in Progress (WIPs) turned UFO - - at least for the moment. I'll be getting back to the UFOs in my brown basket sooner because they were abandoned so I could concentrate on about 3-4 of my projects. AS I finish the ones I am currently working on (Marquoir Sampler, Quaker Huswife, Quaker RR, And They Sinned, Hannah Pepper), I will go back to these other projects and eventually empty out that brown basket. That still leaves me with literally dozens of other UFOs that I have started in the past and for whatever reason abanadoned for something else. AT this point, it will take a while to get them all done, but I have every intention of working through those baskets and emptying them eventually.

I'll take some pictures of my stash as soon as I get the room organized wellenough to take some photographs. I"m getting close though, and honestly, it is really nice to go in there and at least see the piles worked into baskets instead of heaps, and the threads are all in a couple of bags. I have more fibers to file into their little drawers, but that will happen soon enough. I do hope to start doing my stitching in that room instead of using the livingroom for my stitching spot. Thsi way I keep the livingroom cleaner, and can pull out my projects as I work on them in the stash room.

There are a lot of projects in that room, and I have plans to do a lot more stitching now that Fall has arrived. Stitching time improves considerably for me during the Fall and Winter months, and I hope to finish at least two of my larger projects before the end of the year, and at least two small ones. This will give me room for a few more small projects, a UFO or two, and another large project. AT this point, I am tossing between Edcina Pieters as one of the big ones, or starting the Houses Of Hawk Run Hollow. I'm not sure which one will win out though...still tossing them in my mind . Here is a link to the Edcina Pieters Sampler
http://wyndhamneedleworks.com/Magazines/Sampler Antique Needlework/Volume_40a.jpg
and one to the House of Hawk Run Hollow Design by Carriage House Samplings http://wyndhamneedleworks.com/Carriage House_Samplings/Houses_of_Hawk_Run_Hollow.jpg

They are both great designs -- and I'd really love to start both of them.

My 'tradition' of the last few years is to start a project on Thanksgiving, one on Christmas Day and one on New Years, so I could easily 'justify' starting these two and one more ....but I also want to finish some of the older things -- so we'll see later how this turns out.

I will be posting pics of my stash room in the next week....so come and look later on .

Cathy C